Giacomo Pepoli

Giacomo Pepoli (c. 1315–1367), third son of Signore Taddeo, was the family's fighter and its man of property. In 1336, after a violent quarrel with Bologna's bishop over a parish, he came back at the head of his men, wrecked the bishop's palace and drove the bishop out.

He led a campaign in the Ravenna country in 1338 and held the Apennine border against the Great Company in 1342. From 1338 he also ran the family estates, buying Castiglione dei Gatti castle in 1340.

He ruled Bologna jointly with his brother Giovanni from 1347, until on 16 October 1350 they sold the signoria to Giovanni Visconti for 170,000 florins. Accused in 1351 of plotting with Florence, he was jailed in Milan until pardoned in 1354, and died at Forlì on 23 September 1367.