Raimondo della Torre (died 23 February 1299) was an Italian clergyman, who was

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from 1273 until his death. He was a member of the

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family.

Biography

He was the son of Pagano I della Torre, lord of

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and

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, and the brother of Napo della Torre. He was

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in 1251–1262,

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in 1261–1262 (though only namely), and

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from 1262 to 1274. In 1269 he was captured by Conrad Von Matsch, lord of the castle of Boffalora near

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, and publicly exhibited in a cage at

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. Napo's troops freed him and destroyed the castle on 25 September 1273. A leading exponent of the

(pro-papal) side in the struggle between papacy, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Italian communes, Raimondo was appointed as patriarch of Aquileia, patriarch/lord of Aquileia on 21 December 1273. After the battle of Desio, the defeated members of the della Torre family took shelter under him in Friuli. During his tenure as patriarch, he constantly warred against the nearby Republic of Venice, first in the conflict for Koper, Capodistria (1274–1279) and then for Trieste (1283–1291). After raising an army of some 45,000 infantry and 5,000 horsemen, he was able to storm the fortress of Moccò in 1289, and after the peace of Treviso (1291) he annexed Trieste to the patriarchate. He later pushed back an assault by the Da Camino of Treviso and suppressed several rebellions of his vassals. In 1297 he also quenched a rebellion of the counts of Gorizia. Raimondo died in 1299 and was buried in the basilica of Aquileia.

References

External links

Biography at the ''Dizionario biografico italiano''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Torre, Raimondo 13th-century births 1299 deaths House of della Torre, Raimondo Patriarchs of Aquileia Archbishops of Milan Bishops of Como