Paulus [Paolo] de Trottis [Trotti] {Alexander VI-Adrian VI}
Alessandria; earliest reference, mandati list of January 1501 ; list of October 1503 ; expectative list of March 1506 ; mandati : April and September 1507 , June and October 1508 , February 1509 ; notarial list of September 1522 ; unpublished beneficial documents : RS 1171, fols. 14v-15r: supplication dated 8 October 1503 ; LR 10, fol. 45r: entry dated 22 June 1504 ; RS 1187, fols. 224v-225r: 4 July 1504 ; Annate 51, fol. 66r:entry dated 22 April [ 1505 ]; RS 1249, fols. 86r-86v: supplication dated 26 February 1507 ; LR 13, fol. 11r: entry dated 13 April 1507 ; RS 1252, fols. 164v-165r: supplication dated 21 April 1507 ; LR 10, fol. 13r: entry dated 7 February 1504 ; RS 1212, fol. 10r-10v: supplication dated 31 July 1505 ; RS 1252, fol. 192r: supplication dated 21 April 1507 ; RS 1227, fol. 281v: February 12, 1506 ; RS 1253, fols. 158r-158v: supplication dated 10 May 1507 ; RV 914, fols. 167r-168r: bull dated 28 June 1507 ; RS 1340, fols. 210v-211r: supplication dated 15 February 1510 ; RV 908, fols. 167r-168r: bull dated 28 June 1507 ; LR 11, fol. 93v: entry dated 24 September 1507 ; RS 1280, fols. 266r-266v: supplication dated 18 February 1508 ; RS 1313, fols. 177r-177v: supplication dated 3 March 1509 ; RS 1358, fol. 179r: supplication dated 8 February 1510 ; RS 1395, fols. 136r-136v: supplication dated 6 October 1512 ; LR 13, fol. 237v: entry dated 8 October 1512 ; RS 1397, fol. 202r: supplication dated 3 November 1512 ; RS 1400, fols. 62v-63r: supplication dated 27 November 1512 ; LR 14, fol. 31v: entry dated 14 December 1512 ; LR 25, fol. 22r: entry dated 7 May 1519 ; LR 25, fol. 110r: entry dated 17 March 1520 ; LR 25, fol. 138r: entry dated 12 May 1520 ; RAS, Arch. Not. A.C., vol. 409, fols. 722v-723r: entries dated 1522 , 1523 ; see FREY for bulls dated 5 April 1516 , 20 August 1519 , and 1 November 1517 ; see SHERR for an entry dated 11 August 1518 ; had died in Rome by 20 January 1523 (the earliest date of a request for benefices made vacant by his death--ASV, ARM XXVIIII, Diversa Cameralia 70, fols. 179r-179v [Doc. 2.8]); dean by 1522.
Although he was an avid seeker of benefices, Trotti had not advanced to a clerical rank that required celibacy; in fact, he made an advantageous marriage when he wedded the mother of the famous Roman courtesan "La Bella Imperia." At his death, Trotti was engaged in a lawsuit with Imperia’s daughter. He also fathered an illegitimate son, Giovanni Maria de’ Trotti.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: FREY (1955): 191, (1956): 416; MONCALLERO, Giuseppe Lorenzo. Imperia de Paris nella Roma del Cinquecento e i suoi Cantori Funebri (Rome, 1962); SHERR, Richard. "Notes on Some Papal Documents in Paris." Studi Musicali 12 (1983): 5-16.