Alvise Forzatè

Alvise Forzatè (died 1374) came from one of Padua's leading families, whose rise rested on ties to the Carrara signori: his mother Cubitosa was a Carrara of the Papafava branch, and Giacomo II was his brother-in-law. After Giacomo's murder in 1350 he served his son Francesco I, in 1356 holding Valsugana castles against Louis of Brandenburg.

He sat on commissions handling Padua's border dispute with Venice, and in the war of 1372–1373 defended the Brenta line. After Padua accepted Venice's harsh peace terms, he joined his sons and a nephew in a plot to murder Francesco I and put Marsilio da Carrara in his place.

Betrayed, he was beheaded at the Palazzo della Ragione in January 1374; one source holds that he was innocent, condemned only for his friendship with Marsilio.