Guglielmo della Scala ( en, William; died 1404) was the son of
Cangrande II della Scala
Cangrande II della Scala (7 June 1332Gian Maria Varaninidella Scala, Cangrande ''DBI'', Volume XXXVII (1989), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani – 14 December 1359) was Lord of Verona from 1351 until his death.
In 1351, after the ...
. He assassinated his father in 1359, but was edged out of power by his uncle
Cansignorio.
In 1404, together with his two sons
Brunoro and
Antonio II, he led a revolt against the
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
ese. He was proclaimed
Lord of Verona The Lords of Verona ruled the city from 1260 until 19 October 1387 and for ten days in 1404. The lordship was created when Mastino I della Scala was raised to the rank of ''capitano del popolo'' from that of ''podestà ''. His descendants, the Scalig ...
on 17 April, but was expelled from the city by the populace on 28 April.
Francesco da Carrara,
Lord of Padua The Lords of Padua ruled the city from 1308 until 1405. The commune of Padua became a hereditary one-man lordship () with the election of Jacopo I da Carrara as ''capitano del popolo'' in 1308. His descendants, the Carraresi, ruled the city and i ...
, took over in the city a few days later.
By his marriage to Onesta Mortone, Guglielmo left the two aforementioned sons, who never regained power in Verona, and three younger sons: Bartolomeo (died 21 March 1453), Fregnano (died 4 December 1443 at
Vienna
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), Nicodemus, and Paul.
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Lords of Verona