Domenico Fregoso

Domenico Fregoso (1325–1390) was the first doge of the Fregoso family, a merchant and financier who sat on the republic's First Council from 1355 and led the fight against the Fieschi. In 1370, as one of the two vicars of the people, he gathered the crowd against Doge Gabriele Adorno's new taxes; Adorno was deposed and Domenico made doge the same day.

His brother Pietro's fleet seized Famagusta from the kingdom of Cyprus, a port Genoa then held for over a century. In 1378, with the people roused again by Antoniotto Adorno, he was deposed and exiled, and he fought Venice in the War of Chioggia.

When his son Giacomo became doge in 1390, he returned to Genoa after twelve years of exile. He died there later that same year.