Marie Mancini

Maria Mancini ( born August 28, 1639 Rome, † May 11, 1715 in Pisa) was one of the Mazarinetten and mistress of the French King Louis XIV

Life

Mary was the daughter of Michele Barone di Lorenzo Mancini, Geronima Mazarini and thus niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin. When she was brought by her uncle from Italy to France, she first lived for two years in the monastery. In 1655 she went to the French court in the Louvre. She became the first great love of Louis XIV and had great influence on the young king. The began to be interested in literature and to remove both of Mazarin and his mother, Anne of Austria. Mary and Louis thought of marriage, but Mazarin and the Queen Mother were still, however, when Louis is said to have prayed on their knees. The affair ended only with the engagement between the King and Maria Theresa of Spain.

1661 married Mary the Großkonnetabel of Naples, Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna Prince ( 1637-1689 ), after a marriage project with the Duke of Lorraine, had failed. In Rome, she introduced an unknown freedom for women. She gave birth to three sons:

• Filippo II Colonna (* 1663, † 1714), Duke of Paliano
• Marcantonio Colonna (* 1664, † 1715 )
• Carlo Colonna (* 1665, † 1739 ), Cardinal

However, the marriage was soon unhappy. Maria denied himself her husband, took his infidelity but evil. In 1672 they fled before him together with her sister Hortensia to France. From there she wandered through half of Europe and lived in different monasteries. After the death of Colonna in 1689, she moved back over to Italy. She died the same year as her childhood sweetheart, Louis XIV

See also House Mazarin Mancini

Others

The name Maria Mancini also carries those cigar, which has passed through Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain as the preferred brand of the protagonist Hans Castorp to fame.