Antonio de Cardona

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Antonio de Cardona y de Xerica-Aragon , Viceroy of Sicily, 1419 - 1421, one of the 4 President of Sicily, 1435, at the service of king Alfonso V of Aragon, (1395 - Naples, Italy, 1458 ), when he acted as king of Sicily, and Viceroy of Sicily, 1435, was the 8th child, (7th of a second marriage of his father, third out of 3 males, 5 girls), of the last Viscount of Cardona Hugo de Cardona, (1330 - 1400) and 10th Baron of Bellpuig promoted to 1st Count of Cardona on 4 December 1357, when he relinquished his rights on Cardona on king Peter IV of Aragon.

His mother was named "Beatriz de Xerica" y Martinez de Luna, being the daughter of Pedro Martinez de Luna, sieur of Almonacid and Pola in the kingdom of Aragon and Elfa de Xerica y de Arborea, the daughter of Aragonese Baron of Xerica, Pedro de Xerica, (circa 1302 - 1362) and Bonaventura de Arborea, daughter of a Lord of Arborea, Sardinia, now Italy. As usual many times in Spanish genealogy she described herself with the name of her mother, then with the family name of her father, as did also many times eclesiastical people, too. something to be taken into account when "finding brothers" to powerful churchmen, or women, a fact widely ignored by medieval historians.

Viceroy of Sicily, 1419 - 1421, Antonio de Cardona y de Xerica-Aragon married, circa 1400, Portuguese-born "Leonor Manoel de Vilhena", born circa 1380, a daughter of illegitimate Spanish - Portuguese, born circa 1340, noble, Enrique Manuel de Villena, (1340 - 1390), Sieur of Montealegre, 1st Count of Sintra in Portugal, and Count of Cea. He was one of the illegitimate children with "Inés de Castañeda" of famous Spanish literary author and aristocrat Juan Manuel, Duke of Peñafiel, (1282 - 1348), a most warrying, and disrupting "royal ancestors" Lord of the 14th Century, a grandson of king Ferdinand III of Castile, (1199-1252) and Sicilian Norman - German Elizabeth of Hohenstaufen, known in Spain as Beatriz de Suabia.

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Coat of Arms of the Manuel de Villena family, used by Leonor Manuel de Villena, from an aristocratic bastard Spanish - Portuguese branch descendant from quarrelsome and troublemaker aristocrat and famous Spanish literary author Juan Manuel, Duke of Peñafiel, (1282 -1348), wife of Viceroy of Sicily, 1419 - 1421, Antonio de Cardona y de Xerica-Aragon, roots of the Sicilian-Spanish Counts of Collisano , now the Sicilian town and region of Collesano , some 4,000 inhabitants in 2007.
Coat of Arms of the Cardona family , Barons, Viscounts, Counts, (since 1375), and Dukes, (since 1491), successively, since their beginnings around the XI Century, from the kingdom of Aragon - Catalonia. Their titles, several times linked with royalty connections, were passed through male or female inheritors, too. Suria and Cardona, in Catalonia have provided for over 1000 years potassium salts for dried meat keeping and gunpowder manufacturing. A "Cardo" in Spanish is a "Thistle" plant for the Scotchs, hence, their coat of arms


Antonio de Cardona was the father of :


1) Pedro de Cardona, 1st Count of Collisano Count in 1444, a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1451, deceased 1451.

One of his sons, presumably the first son, was:

1.1) Artale de Cardona, 2nd Count of Collisano, Great Chacellor of the kingdom of Sicily, deceased 1478, who married in 1466 Sicilian noblewoman Maria Ventimiglia y de Chiaramonte-Orsini , baronessa di Petineo, daughter of Antonio Ventimiglia, 2nd Marquess of Gerace, Count of Catanzaro, married 1444 to de Margherita Chiaramonte e Orsini, daughter of Tristano Chiaramonte, conte di Copertino and Caterina Orsini del Balzo, from the princes of Taranto. With issue:

1.1.1) Pietro de Cardona y Ventimiglia, 3rd Count of Collisano, Great Admiral of Sicily, Great Constable of Sicily, Stratigoto of Mesina, deceased while fighting near Bicocca , 1522 . He married Susanna Gonzaga daughter of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga , (Mantua, Italy, 1443 - Bozzolo, Italy, 28 June 1496 ), Sieur of Sabbioneta, 1st Count of Rodigo, and Antonia del Balzo, (Naples,Italy, 1461 - Gazzuolo, Italy, 13 May 1538), a daughter of Pirro del Balzo, 1st Prince d’Altamura, 4th Duke of Andria, and "Maria Donata Orsini del Balzo" from the Dukes of Venosa. With issue, 1 male: Artale, married, no issue and 2 females:

1.1.1.1) Diana de Cardona y Gonzaga, deceased before 12540 being married to Ettore II Pignatelli,Duke of Monteleone, who married again and had descent by his second marriage, to Emilia Ventimiglia, sister? of other Ventimiglia woman from the Marquesses of Gerace, Sicily

1.1.1.2) Giulia Antonia di Cardona y Gonzaga, 4th Countess of Collisano; she married as a second wife , after 1561, widower without issue Antonio d'Aragona y de Cardona-Requesens, 2nd Duke of Montalto, (1506 - 6 June 1543), the male heir son of Ferdinando d' Aragona y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto, deceased 1542. With issue, through the Dukes of Montalto, town from Calabria, kingdom of Naples, now Italy.


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