Gianfrancesco da Correggio

Gianfrancesco da Correggio (born c. 1320), also called Cagnolo, was the son of Simone da Correggio, who had made himself lord of Parma with his brothers in 1341 and died in 1344. That year Azzo gave the city up to Este, and his uncles quarrelled over the sale.

Gianfrancesco first backed Azzo, then shifted between the great lords contending for the Po valley, and never regained the Parma his father had held. He served at the Visconti court and then at the Este court in Ferrara.

After siding with the Ghibellines he fled Ferrara, but was caught and brought back. Obizzo d'Este took San Quirico from him, and he gained his freedom only by ceding Gualtieri as well.