Troilo I de' Rossi

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Troilo I de' Rossi (c. 1462 - 3 June 1521) was an Italian condottiero and the first marquess of San Secondo.

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Life

A son of Giovanni Rossi "il Diseredato" and Angela Scotti Douglas, [1] [2] he was born in San Secondo. He took part in Louis XII of France's conquest of the duchy of Milan in 1500, during which many lands taken from his grandfather by Ludovico il Moro and ending up in the hands of members of the Sforza family were restored to him. However, it proved impossible to restore to him all the lands his family had controlled in the time of Pier Maria II and it was possibly as compensation for this fact that Louis made him marquess of San Secondo on 15 August 1502. Louis also made him a senator of Milan in 1505 [1] and allowed him to accept the inheritance left him by his uncle Bertrando in 1502 in return for a payment of 8000 florins and the promise never to rehabilitate his cousin Filippo Maria, Troilo's bitter rival and the designated heir of Pier Maria II. [3]

He restored the Rocca dei Rossi at San Secondo, rebuilding its bastions and towers, which had been demolished during the war with the Sforza, and expanding the defensive perimeter. He died there in June 1521, leaving the marquisate weak - his heirs were still in their minority and so the Rossi of Corniglio tried to take advantage of the situation with a force led by Filippo Maria and Bernardo, descendants of Guido de' Rossi, the son Pier Maria II had chosen to succeed himself.

Marriage and issue

In 1503 he married countess Bianca Riario, daughter of Girolamo Riario, lord of Imola and sister of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, pope Sixtus IV's nephew and pope Julius II's cousin. They had nine children:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Portale dedicato alla Storia di Parma e a Parma nella Storia, a cura dell'Istituzione delle Biblioteche di Parma ::: Dizionario biografico: Rondani-Ruzzi" (in Italian). www.parmaelasuastoria.it. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20.
  2. ↑ Although not listed in the 1464 will of Pier Maria II, in all other surviving documents in the Rossi archive Troilo I is given as Giovanni's son and in other fragments as the son of Angela Scotti Douglas. However, some doubts remain, since Troilo's cousin Bernardo de' Rossi (bishop of Treviso) states that "the Rossi bastard was in the French camp", referring to Troilo I and his father Giovanni being the only members of the Rossi family not to fight alongside the Venetians at Fornovo. It is unknown whether ""bastard" accurately describes Troilo I as illegitimate or whether its usage is simply pejorative - Bernardo considered Troilo I as usurping the fiefdom of San Secondo from its legitimate heir, Bernardo's brother Filippo Maria. See (in Italian)Le signorie dei Rossi di Parma, a cura di L. Arcangeli e M. Gentile, Firenze 2008 p. 267
  3. ↑ (in Italian) Letizia Arcangeli, Marco Gentile, Le signorie dei Rossi di Parma tra XIV e XVI secolo, Firenze University Press, 2007, p. 275 nota 215, ISBN 978-88-8453- 683-9.
  4. ↑ (in Italian) Cesare Marchi, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Milano, 1981.
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