Galeotto I Malaspina

The uncle, having no legitimate heirs, indicated as his successors Gabriele, Galeotto and Guglielmo Malaspina, sons of Azzolino.

[1] In 1359 Gabriele (bishop of Luni) died, leaving fiefdom and title to the two remaining brothers who shared the lands.

Galeotto exercised the position of judge in Verona, he was a Knight and died in 1367 in Fosdinovo.

There he still lies, in the funeral monument built immediately after his death and placed in the Church of San Remigio.

[2] Galeotto I married Argentina Grimaldi, a Genoese noblewoman, already the widow of the Marquis Morello Malaspina of Giovagallo, from whom she had three children:[3] Inside the Church of San Remigio in Fosdinovo, there is the marble fourteenth-century funeral monument of Galeotto Malaspina, in which the deceased, as a Knight, is carved in the act of investiture in the presence of the Virgin, of Christ, of Saint John the Baptist, of Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint James the Apostle, the holy holders of the main orders of chivalry in the Middle Ages.