Taddeo Manfredi was lord of Imola

Imola

thumb|250px|The Cathedral of Imola.Imola is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy...

 from 1448 until 1473. As condottiero he was commander in the Florentine

Republic of Florence

The Republic of Florence , or the Florentine Republic, was a city-state that was centered on the city of Florence, located in modern Tuscany, Italy. The republic was founded in 1115, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon Margravine Matilda's death. The...

 (1443-1448 and 1452) and Neapolitan

Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...

 (1448-1452) armies .

After inheriting the seigniory of Imola after the death of his father, Guidantonio Manfredi

Guidantonio Manfredi

Guidantonio Manfredi was lord of Faenza and Imola in the early 15th century. He was also a condottiero....

, he struggled long with his uncle Astorre II Manfredi

Astorre II Manfredi

Astorre II Manfredi was lord of Imola from 1439 and of Faenza from 1443.He was born in Faenza, the son of Gian Galeazzo I Manfredi. Apart Faenza and Imola, he was Papal vicar at Fusignano and other lands in Romagna together with his brother Gian Galeazzo II...

, who held Faenza

Faenza

Faenza is an Italian city and comune, in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated 50 km southeast of Bologna.Faenza is noted for its manufacture of majolica ware glazed earthenware pottery, known from the name of the town as "faience"....

. The two re-conciliated in 1463, but the war was resumed four years later. In 1467, after having been besieged in Imola by Alessandro

Alessandro Sforza

Alessandro Sforza was an Italian condottiero and lord of Pesaro, the first of the Pesaro line of the Sforza family.-Biography:...

 and Costanzo Sforza

Costanzo I Sforza

Costanzo I of Sforza was an Italian condottiero, lord of Pesaro and Gradara.He was the son of Alessandro Sforza, under whom he fought in his early years and from whom he inherited the lordship of Pesaro...

, he fought in the Battle of Molinella.

In 1471 his son Guidoriccio rebelled against him, and Taddeo was imprisoned under the authoriry of the Milanese

Duchy of Milan

The Duchy of Milan , was created on the 1st of may 1395, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Lord of Milan, purchased a diploma for 100,000 Florins from King Wenceslaus. It was this diploma that installed, Gian Galeazzo as Duke of Milan and Count of Pavia...

 general Roberto da Sanseverino. In 1472 he was freed, but the city rebelled against him. the following year he sold the city for 40,000 ducats to Cardinal Pietro Riario

Pietro Riario

Pietro Riario was an Italian cardinal and Papal diplomat.-Biography:Born in Savona, he was the son of Paolo Riario and Pope Sixtus IVs' sister, Bianca Della Rovere. Sixtus nominated him in 1471 bishop of Treviso and cardinal, and, in 1473, archbishop of Florence. He was entrusted with Sixtus'...

, who ceded it to Girolamo Riario

Girolamo Riario

Girolamo Riario was Lord of Imola and Forlì in the 15th century.- Biography :Born in Savona, Riario was the son of Paolo Riario and Bianca della Rovere...

. In 1482 he fought against the latter and was declared rebel by the Pope