Manfredi

The Manfredi were a patrician house of Faenza in Romagna, among its consuls as early as 1050. Francesco I Manfredi became capitano del popolo in 1313 and lord of Faenza and Imola in 1319, although papal reconquests interrupted the family's rule.

The condottiere Astorre I reconquered Faenza from the Este in 1377 and led the Company of the Star. After the Papacy retook the city in 1404 he was executed in its square in 1405. Restored in 1410, the dynasty held Faenza for another century; Galeotto Manfredi was murdered by his wife Francesca Bentivoglio in 1488.

Her son Astorre III inherited, only to be deposed when Cesare Borgia captured Faenza in 1501. He was murdered in Rome in 1502, his body thrown into the Tiber. After Astorre IV's brief restoration in 1503 the city passed to the Papal States.