Carlo I Cybo-Malaspina was an Italian nobleman, who was marquis of Massa and Carrara

Signoria di Carrara

The Signoria di Carrara was an Italian feudal state centered in Carrara, in what is now northern Tuscany. It also included the towns of Avenza and Marina di Carrara and the basin of the Carrione river....

 from 1623 until his death.

Born in Ferrara

Ferrara

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, he was the son of Alderano Cybo-Malaspina and Marfisa d'Este. He was also Duke of Ferentillo

Ferentillo

Ferentillo is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 km southeast of Perugia and about 12 km northeast of Terni...

 and held other patrician positions in several of the numerous Italian states of the time. In 1605, he married the Genoese

Republic of Genoa

The Most Serene Republic of Genoa |Ligurian]]: Repúbrica de Zêna) was an independent state from 1005 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast, as well as Corsica from 1347 to 1768, and numerous other territories throughout the Mediterranean....

 noblewoman Brigida Spinola

Spinola

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, from whom he had numerous children.

The eldest of them, Alberico, succeeded him after his death in 1662.