Marie Anne Mancini

Maria Anna Mancini ( * 1649 in Rome, † June 20, 1714 in Clichy ) was one of the so-called Mazarinetten (French: Mazarinettes ) and by marriage with Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duchess of Bouillon.

Life

Maria Anna was the daughter of Michele Barone di Lorenzo Mancini, Geronima Mazarini and thus a niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin. She was among other things, sister of Laura Mancini, Maria Mancini, Michele Paolo Mancini Olympia Mancini, Philippe Jules Mancini and Hortensia Mancini.

Maria Anna, called Marianne, distinguished himself early by spirit and poetic talent. It was in 1662 with the nephew of Marshal Turenne, Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d' Auvergne, married. The dowry was extremely high: in addition to a million livres the governorship of the Auvergne and - in exchange for other lands - the return of the Principality of Sedan, the Godefroy Maurice's father Frederic Maurice de La Tour d' Auvergne Richelieu had to cede.

While Godefroy Maurice was in military service, Maria Anna was dedicated in Château -Thierry, the hunt and the fine arts. She was zealous promoter of the fabulist Jean de La Fontaine. The Duchess of Bouillon surrounded himself with people who were not welcome in Versailles and stood in a certain opposition to Louis XIV, who temporarily banished by Nerac. In a letter she wrote about him: " When he shall appear, he is a theater king, and if he is to fight, a chess player. "

As part of the processes in the poison affair of the La Voisin, she answered the judges so quick-witted that from the interrogation protocols, a book has been printed and distributed.

Progeny

Your children with Godefroy Maurice were:

Louis ( * 1665, † 1692 ), prince de Turenne
Marie Elisabeth ( * 1666, † 1725)
Emmanuel Théodose (1668, † 1730), Duke of Bouillon
Frédéric Jules ( 1672 † 1733), prince d' Auvergne
Henri Louis (1675, † 1753), Count of Évreux
Louise Julie ( 1679, † 1750), ∞ 1698 with François Armand de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon