Giovanni Vitelleschi

Giovanni Maria Vitelleschi (1396 – 2 April 1440) was an Italian cardinal and condottiere.

In 1434, Vitelleschi was the commander of the papal armies of Pope Eugene IV when the Colonna faction at Rome backed an insurrection that raised a temporary republic at Rome and exiled Eugene. Vitelleschi managed to recapture the city and had the Roman Senate declare him tertius pater patriae post Romulum ("the third Father of his Country since Romulus"). He remained powerful for a few years, but his intercepted correspondence indicated that he was conspiring against Eugene. Eugene had his former commander arrested and incarcerated in the Castel Sant'Angelo.

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