Pelavicino, Oberto

Pelavicino, Oberto

▪ Italian leader
Pelavicino also spelled  Pallavicino  
born 1197, Polesine, near Cremona, Lombardy
died May 8, 1269, Gisalecchio, near Pontremoli, Tuscany

      leader of the Ghibelline (imperial) party in northern Italy and powerful supporter of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II and his sons.

      As a member of a great feudal family of Lombardy, Pelavicino fought at Frederick's side in 1238 against Brescia, near Milan, and the following year became imperial vicar (deputy of the emperor) in Lunigiana and Pontremoli, near Genoa. He acted as Frederick's representative in several north Italian cities, serving as podestà (chief magistrate) of Reggio in 1246 and at Cremona in 1249 and after 1249 as imperial vicar over the area from Pavia to Tuscany.

      After Frederick's death (1250), he served in 1253 as imperial vicar in Lombardy for Frederick's son Conrad IV and, after Conrad's death (1254), took advantage of political turmoil to become lord of Pavia, Cremona, and Piacenza, allying himself with the Veronese tyrant Ezzelino da Romano against the Guelfs (supporters of the pope). In 1258 he quarrelled with Ezzelino over the possession of Brescia. Transferring his allegiance to Conrad's younger brother, King Manfred, he made an alliance with Azzo d'Este of Ferrara that contributed to Ezzelino's defeat by Guelf forces in 1259. The following year the Della Torre family, lords of Milan, made Oberto captain general for five years, with nominal control over several neighbouring cities. The invasion of Charles of Anjou's Guelf army in 1264–65 drove him out of Milan, and he died four years later, his power greatly diminished by the Ghibelline defeat.

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