Hugo Folch of Cardona and Gandía, known as "the Navarrese" (~1405 - ~1470) was

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(1425-1433) and gentleman of Guadalest. He was son of Joan Ramon I, Count of Cardona and Joana of Gandía. In 1422, he temporarily inherited the Señoría of Ondara and Duchy of Gandia, due to the death without heirs of his maternal uncle

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. In 1433, as agreed, Hugo de Cardona had to cede the Duchy of Gandia to the infante Juan of Aragon, the future

John II of Aragon John II (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Juan II'', Catalan language, Catalan: ''Joan II'', Aragonese language, Aragonese: ''Chuan II'' and ; 29 June 1398 – 20 January 1479), called the Great (''el Gran'') or the Faithless (''el Sense Fe''), was ...

Biography

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was very active in the sugar industry. Hugo of Cardona possessed the monopoly to exploit sugar in Gandia. He sold the business during the second half of the 15th century to the stockists of the ''Magna Societas Alemannorum'' of

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Charles Verlinden Charles Verlinden (3 February 1907 – 19 May 1996) was a Belgian medievalist with a particular interest in the history of slavery in Europe. In 1970 he was awarded by the Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei dei Rotary Italiani for his contribu ...

& Eberhard Schmitt, ''Die mittelalterlichen Ursprünge der europäischen Expansion,'' tomo I de ''Dokumente zur Geschichte der europäischen Expansion,'' Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1986, página 169, From his mother he inherited, Calasanz and Sanui in Ribagorza, and Guadalest and Confrides in the

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. He received the barony of Guadalest in the

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of his mother. In 1424 he joined the king

Alfonso V of Aragon Alfonso the Magnanimous (Alfons el Magnànim in Catalan language, Catalan) (139627 June 1458) was King of Aragon and King of Sicily (as Alfons V) and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfons I) from 1442 until his ...

in the

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. He established himself in

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, where he litigated with his son Juan. In 1427 Hugo de Cardona married Blanca of Navarre, lady of Caparrosso, Aézcoa, Carazar and Caseda, daughter of Juana of Navarra who was a natural daughter of King

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.Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
/ref> With this wife he had four children: * Juan of Cardona and of Navarra baron of Guadalest and High Steward of Kng

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. * Beatriz of Cardona. * Onofre of Cardona, baron of Guadalest, married Beatriu Bou, of the family Bou, gentlemen of Callosa and

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