Martino della Torre
Martino della Torre (died 1263) was an Italian condottiero, statesman and Senatore of Rome from 1256[1] while a year later Signore of Milan from 1257-1259.[2]
Early life[edit]
Martino della Torre was a son of Jacopo della Torre and a nephew of Pagano I,[3] who established the power of the della Torre family (also known as Torriani) in Milan. In 1241, he opposed the nomination as podestà of the city of Paola Soresina. He married his sister, with whom he had no children.[4][better source needed] While another source claims that Martino della Torre's wife's name is unknown and that his wife birthed a child, presumably named Giacomo della Torre.[5]
Career[edit]
Leader of the popular party, in c. 1249-1259[6][7][8] he was elected in the Council of the Elder, but when he abused his power, the ousted nobles called the Ghibelline leader Ezzelino III da Romano to fight him. The latter was defeated at Cassano d'Adda by the Guelph league led by Martino and Oberto Pallavicino: della Torre obtained the estates of Lodi, Como, Vercelli and Bergamo.
He subsequently struggled against the election of Ottone Visconti as archbishop of Milan by Pope Urban IV, but ended up succeeding. After defeating the allies of the Visconti, he received the ruler of Novara.
Death[edit]
Martino della Torre presumably died in Lodi, Lombardy on 20 November 1263 and he was buried at the Abbazia di Chiaravalle alongside his father and Pagano.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "European Kingdoms Italian Peninsula". www.historyfiles.co.uk.
- ^ "Regents of Milan". www.tacitus.nu.
- ^ "DELLA TORRE, Martino". www.treccani.it. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). 1989.
- ^ Litta, Pompeo (1850). Famiglie celebri italiane. Torriani di Valsassina (PDF). Milano: Princeton University Press. OCLC 79151199.
- ^ "MILAN". fmg.ac.
- ^ Ella Noyes (1908). The Story of Milan.
- ^ COLONEL PROCTER (1844). THE HISTORY OF ITALY; FROM THE; FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE; TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF; THE WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (PDF) (II ed.).
- ^ Allen, A. M. (1910). A History of Verona (PDF). The States of Italy.
- ^ Fantoni, Giuliana L. (1989). "DELLA TORRE, Martino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). 37. Treccani. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
Bibliography[edit]
- Rosati, Elio; Carassiti, Anna Maria (2006) [1996]. Dizionario delle battaglie. Rome: Rusconi Libri. p. 383. ISBN 9788818021073.
