Pagano della Torre
Pagano della Torre, Count of Valsassina from 1216, was a Guelph noble and son of Iacopo della Torre. Named podestà of Brescia in 1227 as the second Lombard League formed, feuding noble families later forced him to flee the city.
After the imperial victory at Cortenuova in 1237, he gathered the broken Milanese army at Pontida and sheltered its men in Valsassina, caring for the wounded.
Milan made him an elder of the Credenza di Sant'Ambrogio in 1240, where he promoted a land survey that lowered taxes. He died on 6 January 1241 and was buried at Chiaravalle.