Joanna of Gallura
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Arms of the Visconti of Gallura, depicting a cock Joanna of Gallura （..., c. 1291 – Florence, 1339）, also known as Giovanna Visconti, was the last titular Judge （giudicessa） of Gallura.
Joanna claimed her rights in Sardinia to no avail and eventually sold them to her relatives, the Visconti of Milan, who later sold them to the Crown of Aragon.
She is mentioned passingly by Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy.
Her father, a friend of Dante's, but consigned to Purgatory with the other negligent rulers, asks her to be reminded of him.
The Visconti of Pisa were present in Pisa since at least since the tenth century and since then had produced a lineage of influential Pisan politicians.
In 1205, Lamberto Visconti married Elena of Gallura and became the first Visconti to be the Judge of Gallura.
He was succeeded, in order, by Ubaldo, Ubaldo II, John, and Ugolino Visconti.
Joanna was the daughter of Ugolino （also known as Nino） and Beatrice, daughter of Obizzo II d'Este.
Upon Nino's death in 1296, Joanna became the last Judge of Gallura.
She succeeded her father when she was a baby, though her succession was purely nominal.
Not long after her father's death, the Republic of Pisa, affiliated with the Ghibellines, took most of her inheritance.
Nino had been a notable Guelph leader who had served as podestà in Pisa until his exile in 1288, during which he aligned with known Pisan enemies Florence and Lucca and led a campaign against Pisa.
In 1296, Pope Boniface VIII assigned Joanna as a ward to Volterra, where she and her mother would live for a few years.
In that time, Beatrice became engaged to a son of Alberto Scotto, lord of Piacenza.
Galeazzo I Visconti of Milan, desperate for an alliance with the Este family, had been able to circumvent the engagem...