Hugh III (died 3 March 1383) was the eldest son and successor of Marianus IV of Arborea and Timbor of Rocabertí. He succeeded in 1376 as

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and Count of

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. In most ways he continued and augmented the policies of his father. He has been praised as a legislator who led a ''saggio e moderato governo'': "wise and moderate government." In 1363, he married a daughter of John III of Viterbo, of the Da Vico family, but she died in 1369. They had a daughter named Benedetta, who in 1373 was asked in marriage by the

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, second son of King

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, without success. Pasquale Tola: ''Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri di Sardegna, Volumen 1''
/ref> Hugh participated in his father's last military campaign against Pere de Luna, the Catalan general, commanding one of the

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which ambushed him in a pincer movement at

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in 1365. As judge, he continued to oppose the pretensions of

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and the Catalans and warred against them. He made enemies with the nobles, who tried to incite the poor to rebel. On 3 March 1383, Hugh and his daughter—and heiress—were assassinated at Oristano during a popular revolt. The rebels declared a "Republic" and made the law (which Hugh and his father had done so much to codify, expand, and improve) the sovereignty in Arborea. Hugh's successor was his nephew

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, under the regency of his sister

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, who pacified the rebels and reinstated judicial government.

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*Nowé, Laura Sannia. ''Dai "lumi" dalla patria Italiana: Cultura letteraria sarda''. Mucchi Editore: Modena, 1996. * 1383 deaths Judges (judikes) of Arborea 1337 births 14th-century Italian nobility {{Italy-noble-stub