Gian Giacomo Teodoro Trivulzio

Giovanni (Gian) Giacomo Teodoro Trivulzio (1597 – 3 August 1656) was an Italian Cardinal who held several high functions in service of the Spanish Crown.

He was the son of Carlo Emanuele Teodoro Trivulzio, Count of Melzo, who died when Gian Giacomo was still very young, and Catherina Gonzaga.

[1] According to Sebastián Francisco de Medrano's miscellany Favores de las Musas, dedicated to Trivulzio himself in 1631, the Cardinal's full title is as follows: The Most Eminent and Excellent Lord His Excellency Theodoro Trivulzio Diacono, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church of the Title of San Crisogono, Legate a latere of the Holy Apostolic See and of our Most Blessed Lord Pope Urban VIII, in the Province of La Marca of Ancona, Vicar General in spiritual, civil, and temporal matters of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Misocco and the Misolcino, Count of Melcio and Gorgonzola, Lord of Cotoño and Venzaguelo.

He participated in the Papal conclave, 1644, which finally chose Pope Innocent X, and in the Papal conclave, 1655, which elected Pope Alexander VII, and where Gian Giacomo as protodeacon gave the Habemus Papam announcement.

He died in Milan on 3 August 1656 and was buried in the family vault in the Santo Stefano church.