Pedro de Cardona ( Spanish: Pedro de Cardona ; c. 1400-1450, Palermo ), Count de Collesano, Marquis de Padula, Baron de Malda and Maldanelle - statesman of the Sicilian and Neapolitan kingdoms.
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| Predecessor | title created | |||
| Successor | Artale de Cardona | |||
| Birth | OK. 1400 | |||
| Death | 1450 Palermo | |||
| Kind | Folk de Cardona | |||
| Father | Antonio de Cardona | |||
| Mother | Leonor de Villena | |||
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Biography
Came from the noble family of Folk de Cardona . Son of Antonio de Cardona, Count of Caltabelotta, Baron de Mald and Maldanelle, Viceroy of Sicily (1416-1421), and Leonor de Villena, ladies de la Reina (or Margarita de Peralta).
While still very young, he was appointed to an important post of Master of Justice of the Kingdom of Sicily.
He accompanied King Alphonse V of Aragon during the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples, and was one of his main commanders. He participated in the unsuccessful siege of Naples in 1438, and led the last assault. He commanded one of the five columns at the Battle of Carpenon, led the conquest of Piombino . After the capture of Naples, in 1444 he received the county of Golisano (now Collesano) in the province of Palermo , taken by the king from the rebel Antonio di Ventimiglia.
He was the royal cameling, the second most important at court after the senior mayordom of Guevara; his functions included caring for the royal person, his chamber and table, and jurisdiction over the court.
He was sent by ambassador to Philip III of Burgundy , with whom Alfons sought to conclude an alliance against the Anjou dynasty . Philip, in turn, counted on the help of the Neapolitan king in carrying out the crusade, and therefore tried to win over an influential courtier. In May 1451, at the chapter in Mons, Pedro de Cardona was elected to the number of knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece (in Burgundy they did not know that he had died in 1450).
Family
Wife: Elvira di Ventimiglia
A son:
- Artale de Cardona (d. 1478), Count de Collesano, Grand Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily. Wife (c. 1469): Maria di Ventimiglia, Baroness di Pettineo, daughter of Antonio di Ventimiglia, 2nd Marquise di Irache, and Margarita de Clermont-Lodev Orsini
Literature
- Maurice, Jean-Baptiste. Le blason des armoiries de tous les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'Or depuis la première institution jusques à present. - La Haye; Brusselles; Anvers: Jean Rammazeyn; Lucas de Potter, 1667. , p. 52 [1]
- Peteghem, P. van. Pedro de Cardona, Comte de Golisano // Les Chevaliers de l'Ordre de la Toison d'or au xv siècle. - Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1994. , S. 108-109
Links
- Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila. Pedro de Cardona y Villena (Spanish) . Real Academia de la Historia . Circulation date May 6, 2019.