da Fogliano

The da Fogliano, also called Fogliani, were a Guelph noble family of Reggio nell'Emilia. Guido I and his descendants built up estates from the lands of Matilda of Canossa. Niccolò became lord of Reggio and imperial vicar under Louis the Bavarian in 1331.

His son Guidoriccio was a condottiero for Siena: he took Montemassi after a seven-month siege in 1328 and was painted in the saddle by Simone Martini in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. Expelled by the Sienese in 1333, he and his brother Giberto seized Reggio, but the Gonzaga conquered it in 1335. Guidoriccio later served as podestà of Padua in 1337 and Verona in 1348.

Later kin included the condottiero Carlo da Fogliano, husband of Bernabò Visconti's daughter Isotta. A Piacenza branch took the name Fogliani Sforza d'Aragona and died out in 1780.