Olympia Mancini

Olympia Mancini ( * 1639 in Rome, † October 9, 1708 in Brussels) was one of the so-called Mazarinetten (French: Mazarinettes ) and mistress of the French King Louis XIV Through marriage with Eugene of Savoy - Carignan Moritz it was from 1657 Countess of Soissons.

Life

Olympia was the daughter of Michele Barone di Lorenzo Mancini, Geronima Mazarini and thus niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin. She grew up together with the two- year-older King Louis XIV of France at the Palais Royal and was a close confidante of the young king. 1657 she was married to the one described as benign Eugene Maurice of Savoy - Carignan, the title of his mother ( a Condé ), Count of Soissons was wearing. Three years later she became superintendent in the court of Queen Maria Theresa. The favor of Louis XIV continued until 1665, when Olympia with an intrigue made the relationship between the King and Louise de La Vallière public.

Eight years later, she became a widow. In 1679, it was heavily burdened by the La Voisin in the process of poison affair. She was suspected to have poisoned her husband, and fled in January 1680 with their children to Holland. But even there, she was abused as a poisoner and had to be placed under protection by the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands before the applied population.

Olympic traveled a lot, including they lived for a while in Madrid to find a bride for one of their sons, but there came under suspicion to have the deceased on February 12, 1689 Spanish Queen Marie Louise taught a deadly poison. Until her death, she did not return to France, and her son never married. One of her other sons, the famous Prince Eugene, forced an Austrian General Louis XIV in the War of Spanish Succession in the knee.

Your children with Eugen Moritz to which they hardly cared, were:

Louis Thomas (* 1657, † 1702)
Philippe ( * 1659, † 1693)
Louis Jules (* 1660, † 1683)
Emanuel Philibert (* 1662 † 1676 )
Jeanne Marie (* 1665, † 1705)
Eugene (* 1663, † 1736)
Philiberte Louise (* 1667, † 1726)
Françoise ( * 1668, † 1671)

Only Olympias eldest son married, but far below its level, after which disinherited his mother. The title became extinct Soissons in 1734 with his grandson. Prince Eugene had never done it, because he wanted to have nothing to do with France.