Raffaele Doria
Raffaele Doria (born c. 1277) was a Genoese Ghibelline nobleman of the Doria family. In 1335, after years of Guelph dominance, the Ghibellines retook Genoa and Doria was elected one of its two captains of the people, ruling alongside a Spinola.
To face the exiled Guelph nobles and Catalan naval pressure the captains assumed full powers, but they lost popular backing, and in December 1339 the people acclaimed Simone Boccanegra as the republic's first doge, ending their government.