Manfredo Beccaria

Manfredo Beccaria (c. 1262–1322) led the Ghibelline popular party of Pavia. After serving as podestà of Vercelli and Novara, he became potestas of the People and the Merchants in Pavia in 1282. He oversaw the city's grain supply and drew support from merchants and guilds, building a popular regime against the Guelph nobles.

In 1289 William VII of Montferrat took Pavia and drove him into exile. Recalled in October 1290, he was confirmed ten-year podestà and ruled Pavia as its effective lord.

In 1299 he led an anti-Visconti league, taking Vercelli and Novara, but in 1300 the rival Langosco expelled him again. Imprisoned around 1311, he was freed when the Visconti entered Pavia in 1315, dying there on 22 March 1322.