Joan Ramon Folc IV de Cardona

Joan Ramon Folc IV de Cardona or Juan Ramón Folch IV de Cardona, (1446 - Arbeca, 29 January 1513), was a Spanish nobleman. He was the 5th Count of Cardona (1486-1491) and then the 1st Duke of Cardona (1491-1513), the 6th Count of Prades, the 6th Baron of Entença (1486-1513), Viscount of Villamur (1486-1513) and the 1st Marquis of Pallars Sobirá (1491-1513).

Biography He was the eldest son of John Ramon III, Count of Cardona and Joana of Urgell, daughter of James II of Urgell and Isabella of Aragon.

After the war, he was Deputy of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1473-76) and one of the principal political personalities of the Principality. He was active at court between 1473-79. He negotiated the submission of Hugh Roger III, Count of Pallars Sobirà, his cousin (1480), but later led with his father the military conquest of this County of Pallars Sobirà (1484), as well as the second War of the Remences.

He died in 1513.

Marriage and children In 1467, he married Aldonza Enríquez, half-sister of Juana Enríquez, later Queen of Aragon and mother of Ferdinand II of Aragon. They had 14 children; among them:

Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke of Cardona (c. 1469 - 1543), and several other titles, Antoni Folc de Cardona y Enriquez (died 1555), Viceroy of Sardinia (1534 - 1549), Enrique de Cardona y Enríquez (1485–1530), Roman Catholic Cardinal and Bishop of Barcelona, Luis Folc de Cardona y Enríquez, Archbishop of Tarragona (1531-1532) and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1524-1527). Juana Cardona Y Enriquez (died 1547), married 1503 to Antonio Manrique de Lara, 2nd Duke of Nájera, Isabel de Cardona y Enríquez de Quiñones (1480 - 1512), married in Arbeca, 1503, to Alonso Felipe de Aragón y Gurrea, II Duke of Luna.