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Italian condottiero and duke of Lucca

Not to be confused with Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli.

Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli (Italian:[kaˈstruttʃokastraˈkaːni]; 1281 – 3 September 1328) was an Italian condottiero and duke of Lucca.

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Biography

Castruccio was born in Lucca, a member of the noble family of Antelminelli, of the Ghibelline party. In 1300 he was exiled with his parents and others of their faction by the Guelphs "Black" party, then in the ascendant.

At nineteen he became orphaned and subsequently served as a condottiero under Philip IV of France in Flanders, then with the Visconti in Lombardy, and in 1313 under the Ghibelline chief, Uguccione della Faggiuola, lord of Pisa, in central Italy.

He assisted Uguccione in many enterprises, including the capture of Lucca (1314) and the Battle of Montecatini (1315), in which he was the main protagonist of the victory over the Guelph League led by