Riccardo Caracciolo

Riccardo Caracciolo (died 18 May 1395[1]) was an Italian nobleman from the Kingdom of Naples, who was a rival Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.

In 1382, pope Urban VI deposed the order's Grand Master, Juan Fernández de Heredia, who had sided for Antipope Clement VII and, in the April 1383, replaced him with Caracciolo.

The latter was supported by the priories of Rome, Messina, Barletta, Pisa and Capua, as well as the prior of Bohemia.

[1] Caracciolo spent his period as master mostly at the papal court, also after Urban died, being replaced by Boniface IX.

[1] In 1391 he was chosen as mediator between the warring Republic of Venice and Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan; he later performed the same tasks with other Italian rival communes and lords.