Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, the Great, Marchese di Vigevano, (* 1440/41 or 1448 in Milan, † December 5, 1518 ) was an Italian- French military commander and Marshal of France.

Biography

Gian Giacomo Trivulzio descended from a Milanese, flourishing especially in the 16th century family of Italy, whose beginnings date back to the year 1120.

He took the train to France in 1466 and partially suppressed the revolt of the Ghibellines in 1476 in Genoa. In 1480 he bought by Count Johann Peter Sax of the rule Misox in the modern canton of Grisons and built the Castello di Mesocco from an impregnable fortress. In 1483 he was banished from jealousy of Lodovico Moro. Trivulzio occurred in 1486 in the King of Naples services, in 1494 the French conquered the Duchy of Milan in 1499 (see History of Milan, Italian Wars), Marshal of France, and later governor of Milan was it. 1493 acquired Trivulzio and the right to rule over the Rheinwald and Safien and entered 1496 with his rule Misox and his subjects the federal government in horror. As governor of Milan, he initiated 1500-1512 melioration and drainage of the Piano di Chiavenna.

Suspected to have chat with Venice and the Confederation connections, he fell into disgrace with the king, and when he appeared at court because of his defense in 1518, he was received so ungraciously, that he soon died out of annoyance about it.

His brother René was on the side of the Ghibellines and died in the Venetian service. Marshal Teodoro Trivulzio was his nephew. His first wife was Margherita Colleoni, which was buried in the Chapel Trivulzio in San Nazaro Maggiore in Milan.