Andrea Malatesta

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Andrea Malatesta (30 November 1373 20 September 1416[1] ) was an Italian condottiero, a member of
the Malatesta family of Romagna. He is also known
as Malatesta da Cesena, a city he had inherited in
1385 from his father, Galeotto, together with Cervia
and Bertinoro. In 1388 he was also recognized lord of
Fossombrone.

[1] Montefeltro e Malatesta

Massera, Aldo Francesco (1911). Note Malatestiane. Florence: Galileiana.

In 1397 he fought for the Bolognesi, who sent him

with 200 knights to support the Florentines against Gian
Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan. He pushed back
Alberico da Barbiano's troops, and then moved to the
defence of Mantua; he was however defeated by Jacopo
dal Verme, who captured the city. The following year he
sided with Braccio da Montone, who was leading a party
of exiles from Perugia, in the attempt to retake Mantua,
which was now under Biordo dei Michelotti; Biordo hired
him for some operations in the Val Nocera.

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Page at condottieridiventura.it (Italian)

In 1398 Malatesta was made Senator of Rome by Pope

Boniface IX, a position he held for some one year driving some attacks on the Colonna family's lands. In
1399, as the Ghibelline party in the city had organized
a plot against him, he conscated their lands, including
Verucchio. In 1402, together with his brother Pandolfo,
he went into the service of Galeazzo Maria Visconti,
ghting in the expedition against Bologna and in the victorious battle of Casalecchio. After the dukes death, he
was hired again by the pope, and in 1403 he was able to
expel the Visconti from Bologna, capturing a large booty
in the following campaigns in the neighborhood. In 1404
he fought against Alberico da Barbiano, and in 1406 he
seized Forl.
In 1408 Malatesta was hired by Giovanni Maria Visconti
of Milan, with the task of countering Facino Cane in the
territory of Pavia. Back in Cesena, he allied with Niccol
III d'Este of Ferrara against the lord of Parma, Ottobono
Terzi, taking part in the latters defeat at Modena by
Muzio Attendolo. Returned to Cesena, in 1413 he warred
against Antipope John XXIII, who was backed by the aggressive new King of Naples, Ladislaus. After a failed
attempt to conquer Bologna, he sided with Ladislaus in
his capture of Rome. He shortly took part in the siege of
Spoleto, which he quit to help Sforza against Paolo Orsini.
After other minor operations, Malatesta was hired by Perugia, which named him capitano generale, against Braccio da Montone. However, he fell ill and was replaced by
his brother Carlo Malatesta; he died in September 1416.
His daughter Parisina was the second wife of Niccol III
d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara.

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