Giacomo Fregoso

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Giacomo Fregoso
10th Lifetime Doge of the Republic of Genoa
In office
3 August 1390 – 6 April 1391
Preceded byAntoniotto Adorno
Succeeded byAntoniotto Adorno
Personal details
Born1340
Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Died1420
Genoa, Republic of Genoa

Giacomo Fregoso or Campofregoso (1340–1420) was a statesman who became the 10th doge of Genoa.[1]

Coat of arms of the Fregoso family

Youth

Giacomo's father,

Maona of Chios. Following some commercial successes, Giacoma participated in the wars led by the Republic, in particular during the conquest of Cyprus of 1373. Back in Genoa, his father gave him the charge of the defense of the Eastern Riviera
.

When Domenico was toppled in 1378, the whole Fregoso family was driven into exile.

Amedeo VII, count of Savoy
. In the meantime, he kept on pursuing his economic activity, specifically with the Maona.

Dogeship

In 1390, a long-lasting political crisis came to an acme and the doge Adorno had to escape Genoa and seek refuge in Savona. The population in arms gathered and chose Giacomo as the new doge on 3 August. Giacomo seem to have enjoyed a reputation as a good manager due to his commercial successes, which may explain his nomination. In 1391, Antoniotto Adorno gathered an army of 800 men to reconquer his lost position. Fregoso, not wanting to begin a civil war, refused to fight, leading to the rebels entering the city unopposed and, on April 6, Adorno was reelected doge.[3]

Ambassador

After his deposition, Giacomo was invited by doge Adorno to a great banquet in his honor and allowed to remain in the city. But rapidly, a riot in Savona drove a wedge between the two clans. As a consequence, Giacomo was sent to the castle-prison of Lerici until 1396. Two years later, he returned to the republic and was re-elected to the Council. He was also nominated as ambassador of the Republic to Florence and Pisa. After Genoa fell under French domination, he continued his diplomatic career in Milan, Rome and finally Venice.

In 1411, at the age of 71, Giacomo received the charge of reorganizing the Genoese navy in order to defend the coasts of the Republic against the raids of

pirates
. No archival traces of him remain after this date and it is usually assumed that he died around 1420 and was buried with his family in the church of Santa Marta.

References

  1. ISSN 2611-318X
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  2. JSTOR 44456590
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  3. ^ Piergiovanni, Vito (2012). "Law and power in Genoa at the end of the fourteenth century: on three 'councils' of Baldo degli Ubaldi" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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