Averardo de' Medici

Averardo de' Medici (c. 1270–1318) was a Florentine merchant and politician and a contemporary of Dante. Elected prior in 1309, he acquired half the patronage of Florence's church of San Tommaso in 1311 and became Gonfaloniere of Justice in 1314.

In the war against the Ghibelline leader Uguccione della Faggiola, he was made captain-general of the Guelph party in Tuscany and Romagna by Peter of Anjou, count of Gravina.

He was one of the first Medici to amass wealth in trade. His sons founded the Filii Averardi bank, recorded until 1330.