Lazzaro Grimaldi Cebà

Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica

Lazzaro Grimaldi Cebà


81st Doge of the Republic of Genoa
In office December 7, 1597 – February 15, 1599
Preceded by	Matteo Senarega
Succeeded by	Lorenzo Sauli

Personal details
Born	1520 Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Died	1599 Genoa, Republic of Genoa

Lazzaro Grimaldi Cebà (Genoa, 1520 - Genoa, February 16, 1599) was the 81st Doge of the Republic of Genoa.

Biography

Grimaldi Cebà was elected to the dogal title on December 7, 1597, the thirty-sixth in biennial succession and the eighty-first in republican history, despite a difficult election due to the clashes of the two main parties led by Ambrogio Spinola and Cosimo Centurione, his supporters at the appointment, with the other noble front led by the powerful Giovanni Andrea Doria. The fatigue caused by the events of his new office as Doge undermined the Grimaldi's already precarious health, so much so that, after a few days in bed, he died of a subsequent stroke attack on September 16, 1599. His Dogate stopped, therefore, ten months before the natural expiry of the mandate.^[1]