podestas

From the eleventh century they were consuls and podestas in Orvieto, and they appeared later in various places as captains of the Church in the numerous little wars with the cities and barons in Umbria and in the domain of S. Peter.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

During the struggles of the Hohenstaufen with the papacy it first was in the possession of the emperor and later in that of the Pope, who held it until the end of the thirteenth century, when the Malatesta became podestas, and subsequently lords of the city.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

From 1153 it was ruled by podestas, who were for most part foreigners.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

The princes of Baux were podestas of Milan, consul-podestas of Arles, where they had a castle, were seneschals of Piedmont, grand justiciaries of the kingdom of Naples, princes of Orange, and viscounts of Marseilles.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

_third_ class were captains, or podestas, chosen by the burghers to their office, but abusing it to enslave the cities.

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

Lorenzo said dryly, "This paragon of podestas waits in Cardinal

The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963