Ubertino da Carrara

Family/Spouse: Iselgarda. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Podesta of Bologna.

From Leo van de Pas:

In 1320 Niccolò successfully defended Padua, and he was ambassador at the Congress of Bolzano that year. In 1322 he was governor of Bologna and its military commander.

He opposed his cousin Marsiglio I da Carrara, then governor of Padua, and in 1327 he plotted against him. Marsiglio foiled the plot, left Niccolò free but imprisoned his accomplices.

In 1335 Niccolò was leader of the Guelph party in Parma. He died in Chioggia in 1344, and was buried in the church of Sant'Agostino in Padua, now destroyed.

Family/Spouse: Elena della Torre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1305

Notes:

Lord of Padua. Leo Van de Pas calls him "Jacopo II da Carrara."

"[S]ucceeded his distant cousin Marsilietto da Carrara, whom he murdered in his chambers, put down a conspiracy by the Maltraversi da Lozzo brothers, one being Marsilietto's son-in-law, who with one of his brothers, after torture, confessed and was beheaded, as imperial vicar he campaigned in southern Tyrol, stabbed to death by an illegitimate cousin, Guglielmo da Carrara, who was promptly killed by his household retainers." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Giacomo married Lieta di Manzio Forzatè in 1318. Lieta (daughter of Marzio Forzatè and Cubitosa da Carrara) died before 1340. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Padua.

"[I]mperial vicar general of Padua, at peace and at war with Venice, friend of Petrarch and patron of the humanists, abdicated 29 Jun 1388 in favor of his son." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

From Wikipedia:

The son of the assassinated Giacomo II da Carrara, he succeeded him as lord of Padua by popular acclamation. In 1356 he was named imperial vicar by emperor Charles IV. In 1360 he obtained by Louis I of Hungary the cities of Feltre and Belluno with their territories, as well as Valsugana, which controlled the trades to Trentino. In 1372-1373 he fought a fruitless war against his powerful neighbor, the Republic of Venice. In 1375-1381 he sided with the Genoa in the War of Chioggia, after which he obtained by Leopold III of Austria the city of Treviso.

In 1385, he allied with the Visconti of Milan against the Scaliger of Verona. In 1387 the Paduan troops, led by John Hawkwood and his son Francesco Novello, defeated the Scaliger troops in the Battle of Castagnaro. The following year, however, Venice and Milan formed a colation against Francesco, who was forced to abdicate in favour of his son and to go into exile in Lombardy. Later Gian Galeazzo Visconti transferred him first to Como, and then to the Forni jail of Monza, where he died in 1393.

Francesco was a patron of the arts. He supported the University of Padua. He was also a friend of Francesco Petrarca, to whom he donated an estate in Arquà.

Francesco married Fina Buzzacarini on 7 May 1345 in Padua, Veneto, Italy. Fina (daughter of Pataro Buzzacarini and Francesca Gonzaga) was born about 1325; died on 4 Oct 1378; was buried in Padua, Veneto, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]