Uguccione della Faggiuola

Uguccione della Faggiola, in the 19th century Faggiuola written (* around 1250 in Casteldelci, † November 1, 1318 ) was an Italian condottieri.

Life

Uguccione was born in Casteldelci (Province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region ). He became famous in the late 13th century as captain of the armed forces of Arezzo, with which he conquered Cesena, in 1297 after he had tried in vain to seize Forli.

As a Ghibelline partisans he was from 1311 to 1312 Emperor Henry VII for Vicar in Genoa. In 1312 he came to Henry to Pisa, where Uguccione was made after Henry's death in 1313 to the Podestà and Capitano del Popolo. 1314 he conquered with the help of his protégés Castruccio Castracane Lucca. On August 29, 1315 in the Battle of Montecatini he achieved a decisive victory over Florence and its allies, especially from Naples.

In 1316 he was expelled from Castruccio Castracane as the new army commander from Pisa and Lucca. He fled to Cangrande I della Scala, which made ​​him the Podesta of Vicenza. It died during the siege of Padua on November 1, 1318.