Malaspina family

Malaspina family
Black noble family
Malaspina della Spino Secco Malaspina della Spino Fiorito Motto: "This spine pricks the wicked, not the good." (Latin: Sum Mala Spina Malis, Sum Bona Spina Bonis)
Country	Italy
Estates	, Carrara Rocca Malaspina, Massa
Parent house	Obertenghi
Titles	Marquess of Fosdinovo Marquess of Massa Marquess Lordship of Carrara Duchy of Massa and Carrara
Founded	11th Century
Founder	Oberto I
Final ruler	Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa
Dissolution	1790
Ethnicity	Italian (Langobard ancestry)
Cadet branches	Malaspina-Spino Secco Malaspina-Spino Fiorito Cybo-Malaspina

The Malaspina were a noble Italian family of langobard origin descended from Boniface I, Margrave of Tuscany through the Obertenghi line, which ruled Lunigiana from the 13th to the 14th century through many feuds and, since the 14th century, the marquisate of Massa and lordship of Carrara, then Duchy of Massa and Carrara, and latterly Principality of Massa and Marquisate of Carrara.

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