Opizzino Malaspina of Villafranca

Opizzino Malaspina, also recorded as Obizzo I, was marquis of Villafranca in Lunigiana, a son of Federico I and brother of Corrado il Giovane and Tommaso. In the family partition of 1266 the three brothers received lands including the Lunigiana estates centered on Villafranca and a share of their Sardinian possessions.

In 1281 their uncle Alberto ceded them another third of his Sardinian lands, and in 1296 Opizzino arranged mutual succession to those estates with his cousin Moroello of Giovagallo. He died in 1301.