Person

Name: Guido da Montefeltro

Birth Date: c.1220

Death Date: 1298

Description: Brilliant military strategist and Lord of Urbino whose shrewdness earned him the moniker "the fox" among his contemporaries. In Sept. 1298 Boniface VIII sought his advice on how to capture the fortress of Palestrina, stronghold of the Colonna family, which had earlier contested the legitimacy of Boniface's election to the papacy.