Bartolomeo Trinci

Bartolomeo Trinci (died January 10, 1421) was the lord of Foligno from 1415. He succeeded his father Ugolino III Trinci, jointly with his brothers Niccolò and Corrado.

In 1421 the Castellan of Nocera Umbra, Pietro di Rasiglia, who suspected his wife of adultery with Niccolò, invited the whole Trinci family to an hunting party and killed all of them, except the young Corrado, who took revenge by attacking the town and killing the castellan. The suspect that beyond the killing of the brothers Trinci, there was the work of the young Corrado so to remain the only lord of Foligno,was common knowlwdge among his detractor. The late arrival of Corrado to the party, made aware of the killing by a farmer, who had accompanied his brother Bartolomeo and then allowed to return to Foligno, was strange. Pietro Rasiglia had just reconfirmed by Niccolo' to the town of Nocera, after been removed due to his cruelty to the villagers, thanks to the adultery with his wife. The revenge was terrible. Fortebraccio da Montone moved against the castle with Corrado Trinci and destroyied it. The count Rasiglia throw himself and his children from the tower of the castle. The niece of Corrado, the young Elisabetta doughter of Nicolo', and the son of Fortebraccio, Oddo, had just married in 1418. 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 named 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)