Alamanno da Costa (active 1193–1224, died before 1229) was a Genoese admiral. He became the count of Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily, and led naval expeditions throughout the eastern Mediterranean. He was an important figure in Genoa's longstanding conflict with Pisa and in the origin of its conflict with Venice. The historian Ernst Kantorowicz called him a "famous prince of pirates".
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Alamanno da Costa in the context of County of Syracuse
Count of Syracuse may refer to:
- Jordan of Hauteville (1060–1092), count of Syracuse (1091–1092); reconquest from Arab holding in 1091
- Tancred, Count of Syracuse (12th century; fl. 1104)
- Simon, Count of Syracuse (12th century; fl. 1162)
- Alamanno da Costa (died 1229), count of Syracuse (1190s–stripped 1208)
- Prince Leopold, Count of Syracuse (life 1813–1860), count of Syracuse (1816–1860)