Tommaso da Murta

Tommaso da Murta was a son of Giovanni da Murta, the second doge of Genoa. When his father died of the plague on 6 January 1350, the late doge's patrician partisans put Tommaso forward as his successor, while the popolani backed Luchino Fieschi.

Three days later, on 9 January, the electors gathered in the church of San Giorgio chose neither and proclaimed the elderly banker Giovanni II Valente doge as a compromise candidate, and Tommaso's bid for the dogeship came to nothing.