Oberto Spinola

Oberto Spinola was a Ghibelline leader of the Republic of Genoa and head of the Spinola family. In 1270 he and Oberto Doria, the so-called diarchy of the two Oberti, took power as consuls and governed Genoa together for twenty years. In 1275 he served as capitano del popolo at Asti. He directed construction of San Damiano d'Asti, a new town built by the people of Asti in place of their destroyed rival Astixio.

His son Corrado fought in the great naval victory over Pisa at Meloria in 1284. In 1291 Spinola and Doria began building Genoa's Ducal Palace.