Caterina Malatesta

Caterina Malatesta (c. 1300 – c. 1340) was an Italian noblewoman, the daughter of the condottiero Pandolfo I Malatesta, lord of Rimini, and Taddea da Rimini. After 1319 she became the second wife of Luigi I Gonzaga, first capitano del popolo of Mantua, tying his new signoria to the Malatesta lords of the Romagna.

Their four children were Corrado, founder of the cadet line later made marquises of Palazzolo, Alberto, Luigia, who married Azzo I da Correggio, and Federico, who died in 1376, long after Caterina's death at Mantua around 1340.