Gentile I da Varano
Gentile I da Varano (d. 1284), a Guelph leader, was the first lord of Camerino in the Marche. When the mercenary Percivalle Doria, vicar of King Manfred of Sicily, sacked the town, Gentile fled with its people and obtained help from Pope Alexander IV.
In 1259 he recovered Camerino and was proclaimed its lord. He repelled a second attack by Doria in 1264, and two years later was named podestà of Camerino and Rocca Contrada.