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Ugolino della Gherardesca (c. 1220 – March 1289), count of
Donoratico, was an Italian noble and naval commander, head of the powerful
family of della Gherardesca, the chief Ghibelline house of Pisa.
Biography Ugolino was born in Pisa, from a noble family of Lombard
origins.
His alliance with the Visconti, the leaders of the Guelph faction, through
the marriage of his sister with Giovanni Visconti, judge of Gallura,
aroused the suspicions of his party, the Ghibellines, then being
predominant in Pisa. The disorders in the city caused by Ugolino and
Visconti in 1271-1274 led to the arrest of the former and the banishment of
the latter. Visconti died soon afterwards, and Ugolino, no longer regarded
as dangerous, was liberated and banished. But he immediately began to
intrigue with the Guelph towns opposed to Pisa, and with the help of
Charles I of Anjou attacked his native city and forced it to make
