Background
He was son of the earl of Cardona Juan Ramón Folch and of Cardona and Joana of Gandía.
He was son of the earl of Cardona Juan Ramón Folch and of Cardona and Joana of Gandía.
In Gandia was very active the sugar industry. Hugo of Cardona possesses the monopoly of the exploitation of the sugar in Gandia, business that will sell during the second half of the 15th century to the stockists of the Magna Societas Alemannorum of Ravensburg. Of his mother inherited, Calasanz and Sanui in Ribagorza, and Guadalest and Confrides in the Kingdom of Valencia.
lieutenant received the barony of Guadalest of the inheritance of his mother.
In 1424 he joins the king Alfonso V of Aragon in Kingdom of Naples. Hugo de Cardona married in 1427 with Blanca of Navarre, lady of Caparrosso, Aézcoa, Carazar and Caseda, daughter of Juana of Navarra the one who was natural daughter of the king Charles II of Navarre with the one who had four children:
Juan of Cardona and of Navarra baron of Guadalest and greater butler of Charles III of Navarre.
Beatriz of Cardona. Onofre of Cardona, baron of Guadalest, married with Beatriu Bou, of the family Bou, gentlemen of Callosa and Tárbena.