Pedro Folc de Cardona (Catalan: ''Pere Folc de Cardona'') (died 11 April 1530), an illegitimate son of Joan Ramon Folc de Cardona y de Prades, 3rd Count of Cardona, was bishop of Urgell (1472–1515), president of the

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(1482–85), editor of the ''

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'' (1505), viceroy of Catalonia (1521–23) and archbishop of Tarragona (1515–30).

History

Pere's half-brother Joan Ramon Folc IV de Cardona y d'Urgell (afterwards 1st Duke of Cardona) was ordered by King John II of Aragon to attack Hug Roger III of Pallars, a cousin of Pere's father. Eventually, after interventions in France and Italy, Hug Roger III,

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, was imprisoned at the Royal Prison Castle of Xàtiva, occupied also by famous and ambitious Spanish-Italian

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, where he died in 1509. As a token of both brothers' loyalty to old king John II of Aragon and his son, king Ferdinand II, lands and titles, as a Marquess of Pallars were passed to the 1st Duke of Cardona, Pere de Cardona's legitimate brother. We should take into account that in 1467, Pere's half-brother had married Aldonça Enríquez, a sister-in-law of King John II and aunt of Ferdinand II as the sister of Juana Enríquez. King John II's son, Ferdinand II (1452 - king successor of the Aragonese kingdom and the

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, 1479–1516; king of Aragon and Catalonia since 1479 and husband to queen regnant

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since December 1474), rewarded Bishop Pere's brother Juan Ramon Folc IV, too, with the title of 1st Duke of Cardona, 1491, while Pere stayed as a Bishop of the very important

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of Urgell till 1515, moving him then to the position of Archbishop of Tarragona. Ferdinand II's 16-year-old grandson, King Charles I of Spain, a.k.a.

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, and his mentally ill mother Queen

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"The Mad", confirmed this position but he died from the

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at Alcover in the

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, Catalonia, Spain, on 11 April 1530, when escaping from the plague or black death at Tarragona seafaring city.

References

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