Spinetta II Malaspina

[1] In the name of his sons, he brought a case before Emperor Charles IV against relatives who, taking advantage of Galeotti's death, had stripped his family of lands and castles.

Of these, Spinetta and Leonardo stood out in particular, who were appointed knights on the occasion of the succession of Antonio and Bartolomeo II della Scala to the lordship of Verona in 1375.

[3] Since 1367, in the meantime, his eldest brother Gabriele I Malaspina had at least formally held the title of Marquis of Fosdinovo, whose Marquisate is enigmatically shrouded in fog.

In Spinetta II Malaspina, formerly Duke of Gravina in Puglia for having distinguished himself in the service of the Anjou (thus obtaining from Charles III the investiture, for himself and his heirs, of that title) from 25 March 1385 and namesake of Spinetta the Great (the Roman number should not be there, since the first Spinetta was never a Marquis, but was placed as a matter of respect and reverence towards it), went the Feud of Fosdinovo (including Fosdinovo, Marciaso, Tendola, Posterla, Colla, villa of Bardine inferiore, San Terenzo, Giucano (then called Zuccano), Pompilio, Cecina, Castelnuovo, Vallecchia, Gorasco and other minor villages) and therefore also the title of Marquis of Fosdinovo, while to Leonardo I Malaspina (1393-1403) went the feud of Castel dell'Aquila ( Gragnola ), which included Viano, Casola, Gassano, Tenerano, Isolano, Monzone, Vinca, Equi, Ajola, Monte de' Bianchi, Ugliano, Montefiore, Argigliano, Codiponte of Cassano, Cortila, Prato-Alebbio, Sercognano, Colognole, the possessions held in Migliarina (district of Genoa, Lunense diocese), as well as property located in the territory of Massa and Montignoso.

[7] He married Giovanna Gambacorti and, secondly, after August 1390, Margherita Barbiano of the Counts of Cunio, who held the marquisate in the first years after her husband's death, for the tender age of her children.