Pino III Ordelaffi (March 1436 – October 1480) was an Italian
condottiero and lord of
Forlì. He was a member of the
Ordelaffi family.
The son of
Antonio I Ordelaffi, he was the brother of
Francesco IV Ordelaffi, lord of Forlì from 1448. In 1462 he married Barbara Manfredi, daughter of
Astorre II, lord of
Faenza.
In 1463 Pino fell ill: Francesco was suspected of having poisoned him, but he recovered. In 1466, as Francesco lay ill in turn, Pino's seized the city and assumed the lordship of Forlì and
Forlimpopoli. Soon after also Barbara died, and Astorre Manfredi suspected him of her murder. Therefore Pino sought an alliance with
Taddeo Manfredi, lord of
Imola and rival of Astorre, to counter the latter's attempt to oust him with the help of the Pope. In the event, Pino also had his mother poisoned in 1467. In the same year he took part in the
Battle of Molinella, where he was wounded.
Pino was a patron of the arts, building numerous edifices in Forlì; he also completed the construction of the walls and strengthened the Castle. A monument commissioned by Pino to
Francesco di Simone Ferrucci for his wife Barbara's tomb can be seen in the
Abbey of San Mercuriale in Forlì.
He died in 1480, being briefly succeeded by his son
Sinibaldo before the acquisition of the Forlivese lands by
Girolamo Riario.