Ludovico della Torre

Ludovico della Torre (died 30 July 1365) was a son of Raimondo II della Torre. He became bishop of Trieste in 1346, and Innocent VI named him Patriarch of Aquileia on 10 May 1359.

In June 1361 Duke Rudolf IV of Austria invaded; Aquileia fell almost without a fight, and Ludovico was taken hostage to Vienna. Freed in 1362, he faced a second invasion in 1363, but won the backing of his old enemy Charles IV, who wanted a trade route from Venice to Prague through Friuli.

Rudolf's forces were beaten in 1364. Ludovico died of a sudden fever at Soffumbergo on 30 July 1365, three days after Rudolf died in Milan.