Career
He became 2nd Duke of Cardona in 1513 and was also Viceroy of Sicily. Fernando"s father Joan Ramon Folch De Cardona, 4th count of Cardona (1446–1513) was awarded the title Duke of Cardona in 1491 by King Ferdinand II of Aragón. Fernando"s grandfather was Juan Ramon Folch de Cardona, 3rd count of Cardona, a.k.a.
Juan Ramon Folch III, 3rd count of Cardona, 6th count of Prades, 3rd count of Cardona and Viceroy of Sicily (1477–1479).
He was also made Grandee of Spain in 1520. Juana had been married in Segorbe, 1516, to Alfonso de Aragon, 2nd duke of Segorbe, (1489–1563), a.k.a.
Alfonso de Aragon y Portugal. The couple had one son, Francisco, later Francisco de Aragón, 3rd duke of Segorbe, a.k.a.
Francisco de Aragon y Folch de Cardona and 4th duke of Cardona, as well as four daughters, who used their family names as "Aragon y Folch de Cardona".
Born in Oran, now in Algeria, in 1524, he died in his lands of Arbeca, Lerida, Catalonia, in 1601. Their son, Luis Ramon, died in 1596 before his mother Juana II, the 4th duchess of Cardona. Therefore, Juana"s grandson (Enrique Folch de Cardona, born 1588 in Andalusia and deceased December 1640 in Perpignan, France) became the 5th Duke of Cardona in 1608.
This is a fact probably alien to the European nobility but it was not very uncommon for the great Spanish nobility families of the Empire for several hundred years.
Thus, the study of notorious old family pressure groups and rather elusive "power lobbies" could be very complicated and erroneous or at least misleading to process, without today"s computer info retrievals, indeed, at least in the Spanish case.