Gherardo della Gherardesca the Elder

Gherardo della Gherardesca, called il Vecchio (1198–1268), was the tenth of his name in the great Ghibelline house of Pisa. He fought in Pisa's Sardinian war against the pro-Genoese giudicato of Cagliari and shared the partition after its capital Santa Igia fell in 1258, receiving several curatorie with his kinsman Ugolino.

He then followed Conradin of Hohenstaufen against Charles I of Anjou, was captured at Tagliacozzo in 1268, and beheaded in Naples on 29 October.