Bartolomeo Trinci (died 10 January 1421) was the lord of
Foligno
Foligno (; Southern Umbrian: ''Fuligno'') is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennines and enters the wide plain of the Clitunno river system. It is located so ...
from 1415. He succeeded his father
Ugolino III Trinci Ugolino III Trinci (died 1415) was Lord of Foligno in the early 15th century.
The son of Trincia II Trinci, he was justice gonfalonier and "Captain of the People" of Foligno from 1386, succeeding to his brother Corrado, and receiving the title of ...
, jointly with his brothers
Niccolò and
Corrado.
In 1421 the Castellan of
Nocera Umbra
Nocera Umbra is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Perugia, Italy, 15 kilometers north of Foligno, at an altitude of 520 m above sea-level. The ''comune'', covering an area of 157.19 km², is one of the largest in Umbria.
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, Pietro di Rasiglia, who suspected his wife of adultery with Niccolò, invited the whole Trinci family to a hunting party and killed all of them, except the young
Corrado, who took revenge by attacking the town and killing the castellan.
However, it was commonly suspected that the young Corrado may have been complicit in the murder of his brothers, in order to become Lord of Foligno. Corrado arrived late to the hunting party to the party, and was made informed of the killing by a farmer, who had accompanied his brother Bartolomeo but then allowed to return to Foligno. In addition, Pietro Rasiglia had just reconfirmed as castellan by Niccolò to the town of Nocera, despite having been previously removed due to his cruelty to villagers, whom he also accused of adultery with his wife.
The revenge was terrible.
Fortebraccio da Montone moved against the castle with Corrado Trinci and destroyed it. The count Rasiglia throw himself and his children from the tower of the castle. The young niece of Corrado, daughter of Niccolò, Elisabetta had recently married in 1418 the son of Fortebraccio, Oddo. Their son, Braccio (1426- 1469), after the killing of Fortebraccio in 1424 and his son Oddo in 1425, was hidden, with the mother, in little convent in the mountain above Cascia that belonged to the Sassovivo Abbey, property of the family Trinci.
Braccio's son was renamed Bartolomeo in memory of the uncle killed by Pietro di Rasiglia and became owner of the convent that change the name after his father (casa di Braccio as is known ever since). The family from Bartolomeo, added the last name of Bracci. They also kept the memory of the murder by naming Bartolomeo many of their members for centuries (last known was Bartolomeo Cesare (died in 1738) born in Rome when the grandfather Bartolomeo moved in 1630)
14th-century births
1421 deaths
Assassinated Italian people
Lords of Foligno
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