John Ramon III Folch de Cardona i de Prades, (9 January 1418 – 1485), was a Catalan nobleman. John Ramon's titles included Count of Prades (4th), Count of Cardona, Viscount of Vilamur,
Baron of Entença, Admiral of Aragon, Captain-general of Catalonia as well as
Viceroy of Sicily This is a list of viceroys of Sicily:
Aragonese direct rule 1409–1516
* John of Aragon, Duke of Peñafiel, later king John II of Aragon, 1458–1479, acted 1409–1416.
* Domingo Ram y Lanaja, Bishop of Lleida 1416–1419
* Antonio de Cardona ...
from 1477 to 1479.
His parents were
John Ramon II, 3rd Count of Cardona (14 June 14001471) and Joana de Prades, heiress of Prades and Entenza. John Ramon III became the sixth count of Prades and viscount of Vilamur upon the resignation of his father in 1445. Upon the death of his father in 1471, he inherited the County of Cardona.
Biography
John Ramon III was ambassador to the pope for
Alfonso V of Aragon and actively participated in the Cortes from 1449 to 1455.
Shortly before beginning of the
Catalan Civil War
The Catalan Civil War, also called the Catalonian Civil War or the War against John II, was a civil war in the Principality of Catalonia, then part of the Crown of Aragon, between 1462 and 1472. The two factions, the royalists who supported John ...
, John Ramon joined
King John II of Aragon's army and was made Captain-General. For his service he was awarded the Sicilian town of
Alì Terme
Alì Terme is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about southwest of Messina.
Alì Terme borders the following municipalities: Alì, Fiumedinisi, Ital ...
in 1463. After the Catalan war, John Ramon accompanied Ferran, Prince of Girona to the campaign of Roussillon. He went on to fight against French troops in the
Ampurdan area at battle of Besós.
As Viceroy of Sicily (1477–79), John Ramon moved to Italy accompanied by the infanta Joana, where he repressed the revolt of Leonard de Alagon and Arborea in Sardinia.
In 1479, John Ramon returned to Catalonia and was the trusted advisor of the new king Ferdinand II of Aragon, whom he counseled for years. In 1484 the king entrusted him as Captain-general of the campaigns against the count of Pallars and against the serfs of Pere Joan Sala.
John Ramon III died in 1485.
Family
In 1445, John Ramon III married the dowager countess of Foix, Joana de Urgell i Arago, daughter of
James II, Count of Urgell
James II (in Catalan ''Jaume II d'Urgell'' or ''Jaume el Dissortat'' "James the unlucky", in Spanish ''Jayme II el desafortunado'') (1380 – 1 June 1433) was the Count of Urgell (1408–1413), Viscount of Àger, and lord of Antillón, Alcolea de ...
and his wife Isabel of Aragon. She was the widow of
John I, Count of Foix
John I, Count of Foix also known as Jean de Foix-Grailly (1382 – 4 May 1436) was Count of Foix from 1428 until his death in 1436. He succeeded his mother Isabella, Countess of Foix. His father was Archambaud de Grailly.
Life Early life
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Their children were:
*James of Cardona
*Juan Ramón Folc IV de Cardona
*Catalina de Cardona.
His second wife Elisabet de Cabrera, brought him the revenues of the viscounties of Cabrera and Bas when his father-in-law, Bernat Joan de Cabrera died in 1466. However, John Ramon III had to renounce these properties, to please King John II of Aragon, who divided these spoils between de Sarriera and de Armendaris to pay for their 1471 defection. As compensation, the king of Aragon made count John Ramon III one of the three tenants of the generalitet.
Joan Ramon Folc IV de Cardona
''Note: sometimes John Ramón Folc or John Ramón Folch''
Joan Ramon (1446 - 29 January 1513 Arbeca - Lleida) was Admiral and grand constable of Catalonia and Aragón. He married Aldonza Enríquez in 1467 and they had 14 children; among them:
Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke of Cardona
Fernando Ramon Folch De Cardona, 2nd Duke of Cardona, (circa 1470 – Barcelona, 13 November 1543), was a Spanish noble. He became 2nd Duke of Cardona in 1513 and was also Viceroy of Sicily.
Fernando's father Juan Ramón Folch IV de Cardona (1 ...
(c. 1469 - 1543), and several other titles.
* Antoni Folc de Cardona y Enriquez Antoni is a Catalan language, Catalan, Polish language, Polish, and Slovene language, Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton (given nam ...
- Viceroy of Sardinia, 1534 - 1549
* Juana Cardona Y Enriquez (died 1547) - married 1503 to Antonio Manrique de Lara, 2nd Duke of Nájera
* Isabel de Cardona y Enríquez de Quiñones (1467 - 1513) - married in Arbeca, 1503, to Alonso Felipe de Aragón y Gurrea, II Duke of Luna
He was awarded the title Duke of Cardona (1st) in 1491 by King Ferdinand II of Aragón.
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1418 births
1485 deaths
Counts of Spain
Viceroys of Sicily