Galeazzo II Visconti

Galeazzo II Visconti (c. 1320 – 4 August 1378), son of Stefano Visconti and Valentina Doria, was exiled in 1346 by his uncle Luchino and returned after Luchino died. In 1354 he inherited Milan with his brothers Bernabò and Matteo II and took the western lands facing Savoy. In 1356 the Visconti army beat an invading league at Casorate.

Galeazzo took Pavia in 1359, founded its university in 1361 and invited Petrarch there, and in 1365 moved his court to the city's finished castle, leaving Milan to Bernabò. He married his son Gian Galeazzo to Isabelle of Valois, the French king's sister, for half a million florins.

He joined the War of the Eight Saints in 1375 and died on 4 August 1378, three years later. His son Gian Galeazzo succeeded him.