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Anna Maria (Marie) Mancini (28 August 1639 – 8 May 1715) was the third of the five Mancini sisters, nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously. Along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, the Mancini sisters were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes .
In the spring of 1672, Italian noblewoman Marie Mancini discovered that her husband, the preeminant Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, intended to poison her. To escape, she fled Rome with her sister, Hortense, to France where the two hoped to win the protection of King Louis XIV (Marie's former lover), which would allow them to live independently from ...
Nov 30, 2020 · Learn about the life and adventures of Marie Mancini, a Roman noble who moved to France with her uncle Cardinal Mazarin and became a prominent figure at the court of Louis XIV. Read about her journey, her family, her marriages and her memoirs in this two-part series.
Explore the digitised, transcribed, and translated letters of Marie Mancini, a 17th century Italian aristocrat and Louis XIV's first love. Learn about her travels, people and places, and historical context through annotations, maps, and timelines.
Marie Mancini, princess de Colonna (1640–1715), was also a mistress of Louis XIV; Mazarin intrigued to prevent their marriage, and she spent most of her life in Spain. Hortense Mancini, duchess de Mazarin (1646–99), married Armand Charles de la Porté, who assumed the Mazarin title.…
Marie Mancini (1639-1715) was famous as the first love of Louis XIV of France, and later she and her sister Hortense became scandalous celebrities by running away from their husbands and traveling unaccompanied through much of Western Europe.
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His first love, Marie Mancini, was Mazarin’s niece but both the cardinal and Anne of Austria were vehemently opposed to this union, and the brief encounter between the King and the princess on 22 June 1659 was their last before she was banished from the court into exile.
