Luigi Alidosi

Luigi Alidosi (also Ludovico, died 1430) was the lord of Imola (as Papal vicar) from 1391 until 1424, the last ruler of the city from his family. He was the son of Bertrando Alidosi and Elisa Tarlati.

According to some sources in 1401, his sister Ringarda (Rengarda) who had married the condottiero Andrea Malatesta was suspected of adultery with a nobleman of the Cesenan court named Amerigo Cassini ^[1] (or Alberigo Casino)and her husband had her locked up in a tower at Bertinoro before sending her back to her family in Imola. Then Luigi and another brother had their sister poisoned in order to preserve the family honor.^[1]

Alidosi helped his son-in-law Giorgio Ordelaffi take control over Forli and after Ordelaffis death Alidosis daughter Lucrezia inofficially ruled Forli on the behalf of her young son . ^[2]She also sent her son Tebaldo to his maternal grandfather Luigi for safety.^[3] In 1423 Milanese ambassadors intimdated to Alidosi that Filippo Maria Visconti, the Lord of Milan was sending an army to take control of Forli -but that it would be better if Alidosi simply persuaded his daughter to cede Forli into the control of Visconti.^[3]

During the Wars in Lombardy, his city was attacked by Filippo Maria Visconti's army, and he was taken captive to Milan. When he was freed after the end of the conflict, Imola had been acquired by the Papal States: he therefore became a Cistercian monk, and died in Rome in 1430.

Marriage

He married firstly Verde Pio di Savoia and secondly to Taddea Fieschi with the following issue.

Issue

Lucrezia Alidosi , married Giorgio Ordelaffi.
Bertrando Alidosi
Taddea Alidosi

References

^ ^a ^b Troya, Carlo (1826). Del Veltro allegorico di Dante (in Italian). G. Molini. p. 177.
^ Jones, P. J. (2005-11-17). The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02364-1.
^ ^a ^b Baker, Nicholas Scott; Maxson, Brian J. (2019-06-20). Florence in the Early Modern World: New Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-85546-7.

Preceded by Bertrando Alidosi	Lord of Imola 1391–1424	Succeeded by To the Duchy of Milan

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[:1-1] Troya, Carlo (1826). Del Veltro allegorico di Dante (in Italian). G. Molini. p. 177.

[2] Jones, P. J. (2005-11-17). The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02364-1.

[:0-3] Baker, Nicholas Scott; Maxson, Brian J. (2019-06-20). Florence in the Early Modern World: New Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-85546-7.

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