Maria Anna Mancini

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Maria Anna Mancini, portrait by Nicolas de Largillière around 1700

Maria Anna Mancini (* 1649 in Rome , † June 20, 1714 in Clichy ) was one of the so-called Mazarinettes (French: Mazarinettes ) and by marriage to Godefroy Maurice Duchess of Bouillon .

Life

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

Maria Anna, called Marianne, was distinguished from an early age by her intellect and poetic talent. She was married in 1662 to the nephew of Marshal Turenne , Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne. The dowry was extraordinarily high: in addition to a million livres, the governorship of the Auvergne and - in exchange with other lands - the return of the principality of Sedan , which Godefroy Maurice's father Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne had to cede to Richelieu .

While Godefroy Maurice was in military service, Maria Anna devoted herself to hunting and the fine arts in Château-Thierry . She became an ardent patron of the fable poet Jean de La Fontaine . The Duchess of Bouillon surrounded herself with people who were not welcome in Versailles and stood in certain opposition to Louis XIV , who temporarily banished her to Nérac . In a letter she wrote about him: "If he is to perform, he is a theater king, and if he is to fight, he is one of the chess."

As part of the trials in the La Voisin poison affair , she replied to the judges so quickly that a book was printed out of the interrogation records and distributed.

progeny

Her children with Godefroy Maurice were:

See also Mazarin-Mancini house

literature

  • Pierre Combescot : Les Petites Mazarines . Grasset, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-253-14982-9 .
  • Otto Flake : Great ladies of the baroque. Historical portraits . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-22273-7 , pp. 96-103.
  • Léon Petit: Marie-Anne Mancini, duchesse de Bouillon . Édition du Cerf-Volant, Paris 1970.

Web links

Commons : Maria Anna Mancini  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ O. Flake: Great ladies of the baroque. P. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Mancini, Maria Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION by marriage to the Duchess of Bouillon
DATE OF BIRTH 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1714
Place of death Clichy