Obietto Fieschi (1435-1497) was a Cardinal of Genoa who fought the House of Sforza and served under the Kingdom of Naples and the Crown of Aragon during the War of the League of Venice.
Biography[]
Obietto Fieschi was a prothonotary apostolic Genoese Cardinal, known to be restless and ambitious. Fieschi was hostile to the House of Sforza of the Duchy of Milan, and in 1477 he drove them out of his lands in a conspiracy. After a month, the Sforza returned and Fieschi was imprisoned, but resistance drove the Milanese out again and Fieschi was appointed a Cardinal in 1478.
During the Italian Wars, Genoa was occupied by the Kingdom of France in 1494. On 5 September 1494, Fieschi and Neapolitan generals Giulio Orsini and Fregosino Campofregoso landed in the Republic of Genoa with an army of 4,000 Neapolitan-Aragonese troops and met an army of 3,000 Swiss, Milanese, and Genoese troops under the command of Louis d'Orleans, a general of France. The French won the battle and their Swiss pikemen killed the Genoese wounded, and Orsini and Campofregoso were captured. Fieschi died in 1497, and his sarcophagus is located in the city of Genoa.