Ferdinando d' Aragona y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto
Ferdinando d' Aragona y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto (before 1494–1542), by king Charles I of Spain, was the eldest bastard son of king Ferdinand I of Naples and Diana Guardato, one of his mistresses.
The addition "Montalto de Aragón" is in remembrance of his grandfather, Alfonso V of Aragon.
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Ferdinando was the 9th child of Ferdinand I of Naples. He first married Anna Sanseverino. The marriage was without issue. He then married, Castellana de Cardona, and had the following:
1) Antonio d'Aragona y Cardona?, 2nd Duke of Montalto, (*Naples, Italy, 1499/1506 - +Naples, Italy, 1543);
1st marriage: 1541, Ippolita della Rovere (1525–1561).
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2nd marriage: Giulia Antonia de Cardona, Countess di Collisano
o 1.1. Pietro d'Aragona y de Cardona, 3rd Duke of Montalto, +after 1543
o 1.2. Antonio d'Aragona y de Cardona, 4th Duke of Montalto, (*1543 - +Naples, Italy, 1583);
1st marriage: at Naples, Italy, after 7 February 1562, Maria de la Cerda y Manuel, born 1542;
2nd marriage: Aloisia de Luna, Duchess of Bivona, deceased 1619; kids by 2nd marriage:
1.2.1) Maria d'Aragona y de Luna, 5th Duchesa of Montalto; she married, 1590, Sicilian Francesco de Moncada y de Luna, 3rd Prince di Paternò, deceased 1595.
Issue: The so-called Antonio de Aragón y Moncada, 6th Duke of Montalto (1589–1631), 4th Prince di Paternò, 5th Duke of Bivona, who married Juana de la Cerda y la Cueva, daughter of Juan Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón, 6th Duke of Medinaceli. Notice he used first his mother family name and after his father family name, used sometimes in Spain with much influential and richer females at those times.
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