dal Verme

The dal Verme were a Veronese noble house, traced to Vermis recorded near the Porta San Zeno in 1174. The jurist Nicola dal Verme kept the family's standing under Ezzelino da Romano. Nicola's grandson Luchino turned the family to the trade of arms.

Luchino served the della Scala, the Visconti and Venice, crushing the Revolt of Saint Titus in Crete in 1364 and dying near Constantinople in 1367. His son Jacopo became the chief Visconti commander, winning at Alessandria in 1391 and Casalecchio in 1402, and was enfeoffed at Bobbio in 1387.

The general Pietro dal Verme was murdered in 1485 amid the rise of Ludovico Sforza, who confiscated their fiefs, though later branches recovered them. The marquisate of Bobbio was created in 1516 and split in 1530; the Bobbio line died out in 1759, and feudal rights ended in 1806.