Hugo I, Duke of Gandia
Hugo Folch of Cardona and Gandía, known as "the Navarrese" (?, ~1405 - ?, ~1470) was Duke of Gandía (1425-1433) and gentleman of Guadalest. He was son of the earl of Cardona Juan Ramón Folch and of Cardona and Joana of Gandía. In 1412, to the death of his maternal grandfather Alfonso of Aragon and Foix, inherited the Señoría of Ondara and Gandia.
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.[1]
Of his mother inherited, Calasanz and Sanui in Ribagorza, and Guadalest and Confrides in the Kingdom of Valencia. It 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. He established in Valencia where in 1476 litigated against his son Juan. 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.
References
- ↑ Charles Verlinden & Eberhard Schmitt, Die mittelalterlichen Ursprünge der europäischen Expansion, tomo I de Dokumente zur Geschichte der europäischen Expansion, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1986, página 169, ISBN 9783406303722