Trivulzio, Family

TRIVULZIO, FAMILY. - Of Milanese origin; the first records of it date from the 11th-12th centuries.

Its principal members were: ERASMO, a condottiere, who lived in the 15th century, d. 1459. GIACOMETTO, of the Trivulzio of Casteltidone, a jurist, took part in the negotiations for the Peace of Lodi. His son ERASMO was ambassador of Ludovico il Moro. TEODORO, b. 1474, d. 1551, served in the French army, rising there to the rank of Marshal of France; he was sent by Francis I to govern Genoa (1527). PIETRO, of the Trivulzio of Borgomanero, d. 1522, archbishop of Reggio Calabria (Oct. 1, 1520). FILIPPO, d. 1543, brother of Pietro, was also archbishop of Reggio Calabria, which he resigned; he had received the archbishopric from his brother AGOSTINO, b. in Milan, d. 1548 in Rome, who had held it from Oct. 24, 1520. The latter was named cardinal in 1517, was legate in France, apostolic protonotary, protector of the Cistercian Order, and held the bishoprics of Alessandria (1525), Asti (1528-29), Bobbio (1522-24); in 1524, at the request of Francis I, Toulon, in 1531 Bayeux and in 1537 Gratz; at the time of the sack of Rome he was a hostage with Charles V and detained in Naples, a prisoner in Castel Nuovo. GIAN GIACOMO T., of the Trivulzio of Vigevano, counts of Mesocco, b. in Milan in 1441, d. at Chartres in 1518; he was a member of the regency council of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, took part in the war of Piedmont with Burgundy (1476), was in the Holy Land, intervened in aid of Ferrante of Aragon, king of Naples, after the episode of the conspiracy of the barons and stayed at his court, but after the expedition of Charles VIII he sided with the French, went to France and returned to Milan with the troops of Louis XII, governed the Duchy on behalf of the King and was removed from that office in 1500; he took part in the battle of Novara (1513), where he was defeated, but on the other hand won a success against the Swiss and Massimiliano Sforza at Marignano (1515). AMBROGIO, son of Gian Giacomo, d. 1546, was bishop of Bobbio on May 27, 1524. GIAN FRANCESCO, b. 1504, d. 1573, was part of the army of Francis I; in 1573 he became general of the pontifical cavalry. ANTONIO, of the Trivulzio of Melzo, b. around 1470, d. 1522, bishop of Asti (July 26, 1499-1508), Como (1487), Piacenza (July 31, 1508-Jan. 19, 1509); he was legate of Gian Galeazzo Sforza at Venice, auditor of the Rota and on Sept. 28, 1500, at the request of Louis XII, was named cardinal; he was always a supporter of the French; he died in Rome and was buried in S. Maria del Popolo. SCARAMUZZA, d. at Verona in 1527, a jurist, councilor of state of Louis XII, bishop of Como (1508) and of Piacenza (Sept. 26, 1519-25); he supported the Pope at the time of the Council of Pisa and took part in the subsequent Lateran Council; on July 1, 1517 he was named cardinal of the title of S. Ciriaeo; he looked after French interests at the Holy See and, when the French withdrew from Milan, his revenues in the Duchy were confiscated by Duke Francesco II. CATALANO, b. 1508, d. 1559, was bishop of Piacenza, through the resignation of Scaramuzza his uncle, from May 3, 1525 to 1559. ANTONIO, b. in Milan, d. 1559, a student of law, in 1528 received the administration of the bishopric of Toulon, was governor of Perugia, vice-legate at Avignon (1544), nuncio in France, internuncio at Venice, prefect of the Signatura, cardinal of the title of Sts. John and Paul on March 15, 1557, legate a latere in France in 1559 for the peace between Henry II and Philip II. CESARE, bishop of Como (1527-48), nuncio in France, in Jan. 1536 was, for a short time, governor of Perugia, and had a part in the negotiations between Charles V and Francis I (1536). GIAN GIACOMO TEODORO, b. in Milan in 1596, d. there in 1657, was part of the army of Philip III of Spain, was ambassador of the King of Spain, whom he represented in Rome, and of the Emperor, from whom he received the office of imperial commissioner; he married the eldest daughter of the prince of Monaco, who soon died leaving him a son, also named Teodoro. Having then devoted himself to the ecclesiastical life, he was cardinal of the title of S. Cesareo on Nov. 19, 1629, was legate in the Marches, governor general of the Milanese army, viceroy of Aragon, of Sicily, where in 1647 he sought to quell the riots that had broken out there, of Sardinia (1649) and governor of Milan (1656). He was commendatory abbot of the abbey of S. Celso, protector of the Order of Jerusalem.

Giuseppe Coniglio