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 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 sister of Corrado, the young Elisabetta, and Fortebraccio became lover. Their son Braccio, not recognized, was hidden, with the mother, in a castle in Cascia, after the death of the father in 1424. Braccio's son was named Bartolomeo in memory of the brother killed by Pietro di Rasiglia. The family Bracci, named after Fortebraccio, kept the memory of the murder by naming Bartolomeo many of their members for centuries.