Peralta

The Peralta were a Catalan-Aragonese noble house transplanted to Sicily after the Vespers, taking their name from the baroness Aldonza Fernandez de Peralta, whose son Raimondo kept her surname. Raimondo fought in the Aragonese conquest of Sardinia at the siege of Castel di Castro in 1323 and served as captain-general of the island before fighting the Angevins in 1326.

Grand admiral of Aragon from 1335, he guarded Sardinia against Genoa and foiled an Angevin landing at Palermo. In 1338 King Peter II invested him with fiefs in western Sicily; in 1347 he invaded Naples and negotiated peace with Queen Joanna I.

He died at Palermo in 1349. His son Guglielmo became one of the vicars governing the kingdom during Queen Maria's regency and kept the family's privileges when Martin of Aragon landed in 1392.