Giovanni II Castracani
Giovanni II Castracani (born c. 1337) was a son of Valeriano Castracani, lord of Monteriggioni, and a grandson of Castruccio Castracani, the Ghibelline duke of Lucca.
He grew up while his family, dispossessed of Lucca, lived the life of exiled condottieri: in 1356 his father commanded about a thousand horsemen for Bernabò Visconti in the Reggio country and fought at Casorate, and he died around 1362. No public career of Giovanni's own is recorded.