Giovanni Fieschi
Giovanni Fieschi was a Genoese cleric of the noble Fieschi family, counts of Lavagna. A papal chaplain and auditor of the Roman Rota, he was elected bishop of Vercelli in 1348, defending his church's rights against Galeazzo Visconti.
In 1377 the count of Savoy arrested him and held him at Biella. Pope Urban VI made him a cardinal priest in September 1378. He died at Rome in 1384.