Manuele Fieschi

Manuele Fieschi was a Genoese priest of the powerful Fieschi family who served as a papal notary at Avignon. Around 1337 he wrote to Edward III of England claiming that Edward's father, Edward II, had not been murdered at Berkeley in 1327 but had escaped and lived in exile on the continent.

A copy found at Montpellier in 1878 began a debate that continues: some historians count the letter as evidence that Edward II survived, while others suspect a blackmail attempt. Fieschi later became bishop of Vercelli and died in 1349.