Pietro Di Campofregoso
Pietro Campofregoso (1417 – 14 September 1459) was Doge of Genoa from 1450 to 1458. Biography Family He was a grandson of Tommaso di Campofregoso, he was a vassal of the Visconti of Milan, Visconti as lord of Gavi, Piedmont, Gavi. Married to Bartolomea Grimaldi, he had six sons, one of which, Battista Fregoso (1450-1505), Battista Fregoso, was later also doge of Genoa. Life as Doge He was elected as doge on 8 September 1450, succeeding his cousin Lodovico di Campofregoso. His rule was one of the most disastrous for the Genoese colonies, eastern colonies of the Republic of Genoa. In this period Genoa lost Beyoğlu, Pera in Turkey, Feodosiya, Caffa in Crimea and Chios in Greece, while the flourishing trade with those regions declined. In 1458, after turmoil with Turk and Aragonese soldiers, and with the Guelphs and Ghibellines, Ghibelline faction in Genoa, Pietro asked King Charles VII of France for help. This however turned into an effective submission of Genoa to Fra ...
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Doge Of Genoa
The Doge of Genoa ( lij, Dûxe, ; la, Januensium dux et populi defensor, "Commander of the Genoese and Defender of the People") was the ruler of the Republic of Genoa, a city-state and soon afterwards a maritime republic, from 1339 until the state's extinction in 1797. Originally elected for life, after 1528 the Doges were elected for terms of two years. The Republic (or Dogate) was ruled by a small group of merchant families, from whom the doges were selected. History The first Doge of Genoa, Simone Boccanegra ( Ligurian: ''Scimón Boccanéigra''), whose name is kept alive by Verdi's opera, was appointed by public acclaim in 1339. Initially the Doge of Genoa was elected without restriction and by popular suffrage, holding office for life in the so-called "perpetual dogate"; but after the reform effected by Andrea Doria in 1528 the term of his office was reduced to two years. At the same time plebeians were declared ineligible, and the appointment of the doge was entruste ...
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