Pagano della Torre

Another with the same name, Pagano I della Torre, was a Guelph military leader and lord of the Valchiavenna during the first half of the 13th century (died 1256).

Pagano was bishop of Padua in 1302–1319, and succeeded his uncle Cassono as secular patriarch of Aquileia at the latter's death, after having been candidate to the same position also in 1302.

However, the taxes he imposed to replete the statal treasury led to the secession of several cities (including Rovinj, Pula and Bale) during the 1330s, in favor of the Republic of Venice.

The patriarch replied ordering the sack of Venetians territories in Istria, but he was captured by the enemy commander Giovanni Corner.

In the same year, Pagano had to face also an invasion of Friuli by emperor Louis IV's troops, which he was able to stop with the help of Mastino II della Scala, lord of Verona.