Signoria of Verona
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Was an Italian signoria ruled by the Della Scala Family. It was located in Venetia.
Establishment
January 1263: Mastino I della Scala is elected Lord of Verona.
Chronology
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Were a series of wars between the Signorie (Lordships) of Verona and Padova.
1.1.First Verona-Padova War
Was a war between the Signorie (Lordships) of Verona and Padova.
June 1312: In 1312, the Paduans launched a counter-offensive from Montagnana, led by the Padova Commune. They devastated Minerbe, Pressana, and Legnago, while also setting Cologna Veneta on fire.
July 1312: In 1312, the Signoria of Verona launched a counter-offensive from Montagnana, led by the Paduans. They devastated Minerbe, Pressana, and Legnago, while also setting Cologna Veneta on fire. This marked a significant event in the ongoing conflict between the Signoria of Verona and the Paduans.
January 1313: Cangrande della Scala attacked the suburbs of Padua and conquered Montagnana, which was then set on fire as a strategic move in the ongoing conflicts between the Signoria of Verona and other city-states in the region.
January 1313: Werner von Urslingen was a general in the service of the Signoria of Verona, led by Cangrande della Scala. In 1313, they attacked and destroyed the castle in Camisano Vicentino as part of their military campaign in the region.
February 1313: The forces of Cangrande della Scala leave the city of Montagnana.
February 1313: In 1313, the territory of Camisano Vicentino was attacked and its castle destroyed by Werner von Urslingen, a condottiero in the service of Padova Commune, and Cangrande della Scala, the Lord of Verona. The attack was part of the ongoing power struggles and conflicts in the region during the Middle Ages.
1.2.Second Verona-Padova War
Was a war between the Signorie (Lordships) of Verona and Padova.
December 1317: On December 20th Cangrande left Verona with the army recruited together with Uguccione della Faggiuola and Count Enrico di Gorizia: in the night they reached the city where a door had been opened by some conspirators, thus managing to conquer it without even fighting.
December 1317: The Veronese march resumed, and Montagnana also fell on the same day.
1.3.Third Verona-Padova War
Was a war between the Signorie (Lordships) of Verona and Padova.
August 1320: The troops of Verona, led by Cangrande della Scala, reached Padua in 1320.
October 1320: A peace treaty was signed at the end of October 1320 by Cangrande della Scala, ruler of Verona, and Marsilio da Carrara, ruler of Padova. This treaty marked the end of a conflict between the two city-states and resulted in territorories being ceded to the Signoria of Padova.
Expansion during the rule of Azzone Visconti in the Signoria of Milan.
January 1338: On 8 October 1337, Brescia, under Scaliger control, was given to the Milanese Visconti, after the defeat of the Veronese troops.
January 1317: Verona conquers Feltre.
January 1329: In 1328 the city of Padova was conquered by Cangrande della Scala and became part of the immense territory of the lordship for a short period.
January 1330: In 1329 Cangrande della Scala conquered a large part of the Brescia area.
January 1332: In 1331, Pontremoli was sold by John I of Bohemia to Mastino II della Scala, lord of Verona.
November 1334: On 4 November 1334, thirty-four communities on the Lake Garda coast and part of Val Sabbia gathered in the Riperia Lacus Gardae Brixiensis, a sort of federation with Maderno as the capital and a podestà at the head. To remain independent from both Brescia and Verona, the federation gave itself to the Republic of Venice, which sent a Provveditore to Riperia.
January 1338: The Scaligeri overlordship in Padua ended in 1337.
January 1340: Pontremoli was annexed by the Visconti of Milan.
January 1351: In the first half of the 1300s, Riva and Arco were ceded by the Diocese of Trentino to the Scala family.
January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.
January 1388: Antonio della Scala is deposed by Gian Galeazzo Visconti. The Signoria of Verona is conquered by Milano.
January 1401: At the beginning of the 15th century the Vangadizza abbey lost its temporal power to Verona.
January 1401: Legnago falls under the control of Venice.
Disestablishment
January 1421: In 1405 the Veronese citizens submitted to Venice.
Selected Sources
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31
