Manfred IV of Saluzzo

Manfred IV (1262–1340) succeeded his father Thomas I in 1296 as fifth Marquess of Saluzzo. The town was then a free commune run by a podestà, and he had the rules between marquess and town put into a contract. In 1322 he gained several castles by settling the Del Carretto debts.

His undoing was the succession. His first wife, Beatrix of Sicily, bore his heir Frederick, but his second, Isabella Doria, won him over to her own son Manfred, and in 1321 he gave Manfred most of his lands. When he disinherited Frederick in 1323, civil war followed.

Frederick and his allies occupied towns, and the Visconti joined in. The treaty of 29 July 1332 gave the throne to Frederick, and Manfred abdicated and withdrew to the Langhe, dying at Cortemilia in 1340.