Sancho Folch de Cardona y Ruíz de Liori, ?th Lord and 1st Marquess of Guadalest, was the heir and son of Alfonso Folch de Cardona y Fajardo, ?th

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of Guadalest, and wife Isabel Ruíz de Liori, Lady of Gorga. He was a member of the House of the

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s of Cardona and was elevated to 1st Marquess of his Feudal

ship.http://www.geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=49293 He married María Colón de Toledo (c. 1510 –), daughter of

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and wife María de Toledo y Rojas, and had: * Cristóbal Colón de Cardona, 2nd Marquess of Guadalest (– 1583), unmarried and without issue * María Colón de Cardona, 3rd

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of Guadalest (c. 1540 – 1591), married to

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, without surviving issue.

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16th-century Spanish people