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 The Diocese of Urgell is a diocese in Catalonia (Spain) and Andorra in the historical County of Urgell,

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(1482–85), editor of the '' Usatges de Barcelona'' (1505),

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(1521–23) and

archbishop of Tarragona The Archdiocese of Tarragona (Latin, ''Tarraconensis'') is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The archdiocese heads the ecclesias ...

(1515–30).

History

Pere's half-brother Joan Ramon Folc IV de Cardona y d'Urgell (afterwards 1st

Duke of Cardona Duke of Cardona ( es, Duque de Cardona) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1482 by Ferdinand II to Juan Ramón Folch de Cardona, 5th Count of Cardona, as an elevation to dukedom ...

) was ordered by King

John II of Aragon John II (Spanish: ''Juan II'', Catalan: ''Joan II'', Aragonese: ''Chuan II'' and eu, Joanes II; 29 June 1398 – 20 January 1479), called the Great (''el Gran'') or the Faithless (''el Sense Fe''), was King of Aragon from 1458 until his death i ...

to attack Hug Roger III of Pallars, a cousin of Pere's father. Eventually, after interventions in France and Italy, Hug Roger III, Count of Pallars, was imprisoned at the Royal Prison

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, 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 Juana Enriquez, 5th Lady of Casarrubios del Monte (1425 – 13 February 1468) was Queen of Aragon and de facto Queen of Navarre as the wife of King John II. Juana Enríquez was the Regent of Navarre during the absence of her husband in the Na ...

. 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

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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

, 1491, while Pere stayed as a Bishop of the very important

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Urgell Modern-day Urgell (), also known as ''Baix Urgell'' (''baix'' meaning "lower", by contrast with Alt Urgell "Higher Urgell"), is a ''comarca'' (county) in Catalonia, Spain, forming only a borderland portion of the region historically known as Ur ...

till 1515, moving him then to the position of

Archbishop of Tarragona The Archdiocese of Tarragona (Latin, ''Tarraconensis'') is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The archdiocese heads the ecclesias ...

. Ferdinand II's 16-year-old grandson, King

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, a.k.a.

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, and his mentally ill mother Queen Joan I of Castile "The Mad", confirmed this position but he died from the

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in the

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

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seafaring city.

References

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