Musso Beccaria

Musso Beccaria (died 1343), son of Manfredo Beccaria, was a Ghibelline signore of Pavia from 1322 and a loyal servant of Milan's Visconti. The Guelfs expelled his family in 1300, and it returned in 1315 only after Matteo Visconti drove its rivals from the city.

In 1323 he was excommunicated after ignoring an inquisitorial summons. In 1328 he seized a papal convoy carrying sixty thousand gold gulden to the papal commander fighting the Visconti, who besieged Pavia and entered it on 8 June 1331, restoring Guelf rule.

After a November 1332 uprising toppled the papal governor, Musso returned with Visconti help and in 1333 allied with Robert of Naples against John of Bohemia. In 1342 he turned to Louis IV of Bavaria, but Luchino Visconti forced him to submit. He died in 1343, succeeded by his son Castellino.