Bernardino I da Polenta

Bernardino I da Polenta (died 1359) succeeded his father Ostasio I as lord of Ravenna in 1346. In 1347 his brother Pandolfo imprisoned him, but Malatesta mediation won his release; later that year Bernardino locked up Pandolfo and their brother Lamberto at Cervia, where they died.

He kept Ravenna quiet with executions and exile, and the city knew his reign for war and crushing taxes. In 1354 Count Lando's Great Company sacked Ravenna and left the next month after Bernardino offered 12,000 florins, and in 1356 he became papal vicar of Ravenna for ten years in return for an annual payment.

A tax revolt in 1357 was crushed, with more than a hundred people arrested or killed. He died in 1359, and his son Guido III succeeded him.