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The Fieschi had held power over a large part of Tuscany and the coast of Genoa and the north from the beginning of the 11th Century until the 16th Century. |
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In 1010, Holy Roman Emperor Henry (also King of Italy) granted the family the fief Counts of Lavagna and Imperial Vicars General (ie Viceroys) of the whole of Tuscany and of the coast of Genoa. |
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The Imperial Houses of Hohenstaufen, Luxembourg and later Habsburg each in turn confirmed the Counts in the rank of Count Palatine. |
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Males of the Fieschi— all of them styled Conte di Lavagna— played major roles as Guelph partisans in the governance and military history of medieval Genoa, ever in conflict with the Republic and always retaining their connection with their holdings here. |
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In 1138, in an agreement between the Fieschi and the commune of Genoa, the Fieschi agreed to spend part of the year in the city. They earned great riches from trading and financial activities, and later developed in numerous different branches. Apart from Liguria, they possessed fiefs in Piedmont, Lombardy, Umbria and in the Kingdom of Naples. |
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Sinibaldo de' Fieschi, Count of Lavagna, became pope as Innocent IV in 1243, and his son Ottobuono was elected pope to succeed Adrian V on July 12, 1276, but died at Viterbo on August 18. |
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In the Fieschi conspiracy of 1547, Giovanni Luigi Fieschi and the nobles unsuccessfully attempted to recapture the dogate from Andrea Doria, and the power of the Fieschi was broken. |
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