Lanfranco Spinola

Lanfranco Spinola was a Genoese nobleman and naval commander. In 1263, in Genoa's war against Venice, he and Pietro Avvocato led the fourteen galleys that engaged a Venetian fleet off the Greek island of Settepozzi.

The Genoese were defeated with heavy losses and Avvocato was killed. A Genoese court of inquiry afterward condemned the surviving admirals, Spinola among them, to exile for their conduct. By his wife Sibilla Zaccaria he left a son, Ingo Spinola.