Pietro Gambacorti

Pietro Gambacorti (1319–1392) was a Pisan nobleman, son of Andrea Gambacorta. In 1355 an uprising supported by Emperor Charles IV overthrew the regime of his kinsman Francesco, thought to lean too close to Florence, and the family was driven into exile.

Pietro returned to Pisa with his family in 1369 and, first as capitano delle masnade and then as doge, governed the republic until 1392. On 21 October 1392 he was assassinated by Jacopo d'Appiano, hungry for power and acting in agreement with Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan; his sons Lorenzo and Benedetto were killed in the same conspiracy. His daughter Chiara became a Dominican nun and was later beatified.