Giovanni Manfredi

Giovanni Manfredi was the son of Alberghettino II Manfredi, second signore of Faenza, who seized the city from his own father in 1327, surrendered it to the papal legate after a siege in 1328, and was beheaded at Bologna in 1329 for plotting to give that city to Emperor Louis the Bavarian.

Giovanni held the Romagna Apennine lordships, and in 1339 his uncle Ricciardo Manfredi, third signore of Faenza, knighted him. He married twice; his first wife Lisa Sanvitale bore him a son, Almerico. He died in 1389.