Background
The son of Francesco III Ordelaffi (best known as Cecco III or II), at the latter"s death (1405) he was first imprisoned and the exiled to Venice by the Papal legate Baldassarre Cossa.
The son of Francesco III Ordelaffi (best known as Cecco III or II), at the latter"s death (1405) he was first imprisoned and the exiled to Venice by the Papal legate Baldassarre Cossa.
Giorgio had died in 1422, but Forlì was returned to the Papal States. Eleven years later a popular revolt ousted the Papal governor, and Antonio could take possession of Forlì. Allied with the Visconti then in war against Pope Eugene IV, he managed to gain Forlimpopoli and other castles, but the peace between Rome and Milan stripped him off of all them.
In 1436 he was also forced to cede Forlì to Francesco Sforza, and went to exile in Ferrara.
Two years later he regained the seigniory and maintained it despite the attacks of Papal-Visconti condottieri like Niccolò Piccinino and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. In 1447 he was recognized papal vicar of Forlì.
He was a member of the noble family of Ordelaffi.