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Enrique de Cardona y Enríquez (1485–1530) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.
Biography
Enrique de Cardona y Enríquez was born in the County of Urgell in 1485, the son of Juan Folch de Cardona y Urgel, Duke of Cardona, and Aldonza Domínguez. [1] He began his career as a cleric in Urgell. [1]
In 1505, Ferdinand II of Aragon wanted to promote him to the see of Barcelona; he therefore forced archdeacon Luís Desplá, who had been elected by the cathedral chapter of Barcelona Cathedral, to retire. [1] The cathedral chapter elected Cardona on 18 April 1505; he received dispensation for not having reached the canonical age of 27. [1] On 23 January 1512 he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Monreale, though he continued to live in Barcelona. [1]
In 1522, he accompanied Pope Adrian VI from Spain to Rome. [1] He was made Prefect of the Castel Sant'Angelo on 24 September 1522. [1] He was a commissary and judge in the case of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, who was arrested on 28 April 1523. [1] He served as president of Sicily in 1526, where he repelled an Ottoman attack on the island, and launched several successful corsairs attack against the Ottoman occupation of the berbary coast. [1]
Pope Clement VII made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of 21 November 1527. [1] He received the red hat and the titular church of San Marcello al Corso on 24 November 1527. [1]
He died in Rome on 7 February 1530. [1] He is buried in Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli. [1]
