Pedro Folc de Cardona, a.k.a. Pedro de Cardona, deceased from the black death at Alcover, province of Tarragona, Spain, 11 April 1530, Bishop of Urgel, 1472–1515, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, 1482–1485, editor of the Usatges de Barcelona, 1505, Viceroy of Catalonia, 1521–1523, Archbishop of Tarragona, 1515–1530, was an illegitimate son of Joan Ramon Folc III de Cardona y de Prades, (9 January 1418 - 18 June 1486), 4rd Count of Cardona, a title awarded in 1375 by king Peter IV of Aragon to viscount of Cardona Hug II de Cardona, (15 October 1328 - 2 August 1400).
He was a step brother of Joan Ramon Folc IV de Cardona y d'Urgell, (1446 - 1st Duke of Cardona since 1491 - 29 January 1513), being ordered by king John II of Aragon, deceased 1479, to attack his cousin Hugo Roger III of Pallars, family related to Pedro's father. Eventually, after interventions in France and Italy, Hugo Roger III, Count of Pallars, would be imprisoned at the Royal Prison Castle of Xativa, occupied also by famous and ambitious Spanish-Italian Cesare Borgia, where he died in 1509. Lands and titles, as a Marquess of Pallars were passed to the 1st Duke of Cardona, Pedro's "legal" brother as a token of both brothers loyalty to old king John II of Aragon and to John II son, king Ferdinand II of Aragon.
We should take into account that Pedro's brother, had married in 1467, aged 21 only, Aldonça Enríquez, sister of king Ferdinand II mother Joana Enriquez, hence an aunt of Ferdinand II, the king of Aragon and Catalonia since 1479 and a husband to Queen regnant since December 1474, Isabel l of Castile, (1451- Queen successor to her half brother Henry IV of Castile, December 1474 - 1504).
King John II of Aragon son, Ferdinand II of Aragon, (1452 - king successor of the Aragonese kingdom and the Catalonia counties, 1479–1516), rewarded his brother Juan Ramon Folc IV, too, with the title of 1st Duke of Cardona, 1491, while Bishop Pedro stayed as a Bishop of the very important episcopal Siege of Urgell till 1515, moving him then to the position of Archbishop of Tarragona.
Ferdinand II of Aragon grandson, then 16 years old king Charles I of Spain, a.k.a. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and his mentally ill mother Queen Joan I of Castile "The Mad", confirmed this position but he died on 11 April 1530 at Alcover when scaping from the plague or black death at Tarragona sea-faring city.