Ormanno Tedici

Ormanno Tedici was an abbot and Italian politician. He was the Lord of Pistoia between 1322 and 1324.

From the 13th-century onward, the predominantly Guelph city of Florence began to exert influence and control over the predominantly Ghibelline city of Pistoia. This however led to worsening internecine conflicts between families, whose alliances were either Ghibelline or to one of the splintered groups of Guelphs, the Bianchi or the Neri.

Under these circumstances of civil discord arose a successful condottieri of Lucca, Castruccio Castracani, who progressively ravaged rural communities belonging to Tuscany, and thus isolating towns like Pistoia from the subjugation of Florence. The depredations of Castracani inflicted much hardship to Pistoia. Into these circumstances, Ormanno, who had been abbot of the Monastery of Santa Maria di Pacciana, became the leader of a factions seeking an truce with Castracani. These accommodations with the Lucchese general were independent of Florentine wishes.

In April 1322, with the support of the local prominent Cancellieri and Taviani families, Ormanno was acclaimed Capitano of the people of Pistoia, later in the next year, his title was raise to Lord. But by 1324, he was deposed by his nephew, Filippo Tedici. Tedici, often referred to as the Traditore di Pistoia or traitor of Pistoia, putatively sold the city to Castracani, and gained the hand of the general's daughter.[1][2]

Ormanno retired back to his abbey. After the death of Castracani, scourge of Florence, in 1328, Filippo Tedici's fortunes also soured, and he was killed and decapitated.