Anne Marie Martinozzi
Anna Maria Martinozzi (French Anne Marie Martinozzi; * 1637 in Rome, † February 4, 1672 in Paris) was one of the so-called Mazarinetten (French: Mazarinettes ) and was by marrying Armand de Bourbon, Princess of Conti.
Life
Childhood and youth
Anna Maria came in 1637 as a subsidiary of the Italian nobleman Geronimo Martinozzi, Margrave of Fano and majordomo of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, and his wife Laura Margeritha Mazarini, the older sister Jules Mazarin, in Rome to the world. She was thus niece of the powerful French First Minister, who together with her cousins Laura and Olympia Mancini, her cousin Michele Paolo Mancini brought to France at the age of ten years.
After she arrived in Paris in 1647, she quickly got the nickname wonders with the blond hair (French merveille aux cheveux blonds ) because they differed by their hair color from their cousins brunette and promised an early age to be a beauty. She was first educated at the behest of the Queen Mother Anne of Austria, together with the still underaged French King Louis XIV and his younger brother Philippe in the Palais Royal, but switched to a monastery later.
Mazarin arranged for her first marriage with the crown prince of the house Épernon, Louis -Charles de Nogaret de La Valette, duc de Candale, but wanted some more time to enjoy their freedom, so the marriage of the two was slow in coming. Even as Anna Maria College in 1653 had ended and she returned from the monastery to the French court in Paris, showed her fiancé no inclination to make his marriage promise true, and so moved Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, as a candidate for marriage after. He had played as a brother of the great Condé during the Fronde a major role as an opponent of Mazarin and looked into the marriage the chance to make peace with the Cardinal, and to let him pay off by its high debt. The prince of the blood led the negotiations leading up to not himself, but could be represented by the poet Jean -François Sarrasins, Conti served as secretary. Meanwhile, Lord, it was by his own admission completely identical, which he took the nieces of Mazarin to woman, " he marry the Cardinal, not the woman. " The Duke of Candal entered its rights generously from the prince, so a marriage of Anna Maria with him nothing stood in the way. Daniel de Cosnac, one of the confidants of the Contis, but later reported in his memoirs that the niece of Mazarin - so because they had been asked - would not have given their consent for this exchange.
Princess of Conti
Since Anna Maria, however, was not even asked for their opinion, the signing of the marriage contract took place in the Louvre on February 21, 1654. The engagement was celebrated the same evening there. The following day, February 22, the freshly fiance were married by the Archbishop of Bourges, Anne de Lévis de Ventadour, in the chapel of the Queen in the Louvre. In addition to the bride of the Prince of Conti was on top of the governorship of Guyenne and the command of the French army in Catalonia.
Anna Maria Martinozzi was made famous by many contemporaries, including, for example, Madame de Motte Ville because of her beauty and gentle character, who was paired with a lot of spirit and mind. In addition, they proved to be extremely helpful when it came to back her confidant Daniel de Cosnac by intercession with her influential uncle, the vacant bishopric of Valence. After she had recovered, contrary to expectations of a foul disease, a large change of mind was going in it. The former fun-loving and pleasure-loving young woman was convinced Jansenitin, abjured all the luxuries and made from then earned as benefactress. So she sold, for example, hunger 1662 the few remaining her jewelry to fund with the proceeds for feeding the poor.
When she became a widow in 1666, she went despite her young age of 29 years no new marriage, but instead devoted himself to the education of their sons and of charity.
At 35, Anna Maria suffered a stroke and fell into a deep swoon then. Madame de Sévigné described in one of her letters the appearance of the princess, after trying to bring them through the breaking of two teeth and the burning of the scalp from the swoon. But all efforts were in vain. Anna Maria Martinozzi died on February 4, 1672 by four clock in the morning in her Paris Hôtel de Conti, without having the awareness gained again. She was buried on 6 February in the church of Saint -André -des- Arcs, while her heart found their last rest at the Carmelites in the Rue Saint- Jacques and their guts in the monastery of Port Royal des Champs.
In his will, she had her sister Anne Geneviève de Bourbon- Condé, Duchess of Longueville, an educator and her brother Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, was appointed guardian of her children. The majority of their legacy were the poor and their servants.
Progeny
Anna Maria Martinozzi had three children by Armand of Bourbon, two of whom survived to adulthood:
- Louis ( * / † 1658)
- Louis Armand (* 1661, † 1685), Prince of Conti, ∞ 1680 Marie Anne de Bourbon, daughter of Louis XIV and Louise de La Vallières
- François Louis ( 1664, † 1709), the great Conti, Prince of Conti, ∞ 1688 Marie Thérèse de Bourbon- Condé