Maria Mancini

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Jacob Ferdinand Voet : Maria Mancini , approx. 1670–1676 (Milan, Castello Sforzesco )

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

Life

Jacob Ferdinand Voet (1639–1689): Maria Mancini , around 1675–1680 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Maria was the daughter of Michele Lorenzo Barone di Mancini and Geronima Mazarini and thus the niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin . When she was brought to France by her uncle from Italy, she initially lived in the monastery for two years. In 1655 she went to the French court in the Louvre . The Swedish Queen Christina also stayed in Paris during this time, which is said to have greatly influenced Maria's development.

She became the first great love of Louis XIV and had a great influence on the young king. He began to be interested in literature and moved away from both Mazarin and his mother Anna from Austria . Maria and Ludwig thought of marriage, but Mazarin and the Queen Mother were also against it when Ludwig is said to have pleaded on his knees. The affair only ended with the king's engagement to Maria Teresa of Spain .

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

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

The marriage soon turned out to be unhappy. Maria became the lover of Cardinal Flavio Chigi , who also had her painted for his Stanza delle Belle ('Room of the Beautiful') in the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia . She denied her husband, but resented his infidelity. In 1672 she and her sister Hortensia fled from him to France. In Paris the king provided her with money, but refused to receive her. From then on she wandered through half of Europe (Savoy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain) and lived in various monasteries. After Colonna's death in 1689, she moved back to Italy. She died in the same year as her childhood sweetheart Louis XIV.

Others

The name Maria Mancini also bears the cigar which became famous as the preferred brand of the protagonist Hans Castorp through Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain .

literature

  • Simone Bertière: Les Femmes du Roi Soleil . Fallois, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-87706-327-5 .
  • Pierre Combescot : Les Petites Mazarines . Grasset, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-246-47761-1 .
  • Gerty Colin: Un si grand amour. Louis XIV et Marie Mancini . Robet Laffont, Paris 1957.
  • Claude Dulong: Marie Mancini. La première passion de Louis XIV . Perrin, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-262-00850-7 .
  • Elizabeth C. Goldsmith: Publishing the Lives of Hortense and Marie Mancini . In: Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Dena Goodman (Ed.): Going Public. Women and Publishing in Early Modern France . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1995, pp. 30-45.
  • Françoise Mallet-Joris : Marie Mancini, Le premier amour de Louis XIV . Biography. Julliard, 1965, ISBN 2-85704-539-5 .
  • Lucien Perey: Le Roman du grand roi. Louis XIV et Marie Mancini . Calmann Lévy, Paris 1894.
  • Lucien Perey: Marie Mancini Colonna. Une princesse Romaine au XIVII. siècle .Calmann Lévy, Paris 1896.
  • Amédée Renée: Mazarin's nieces. Studies of manners and characters in the 17th century . Rudolf Kuntze, Dresden 1858, pp. 223-273; books.google.de (PDF; 22 MB).
  • Paul Rival: Marie Mancini . 2nd Edition. Gallimard, Paris 1938.

Web links

Commons : Maria Mancini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 308.
  2. ^ Genealogy of the Dukes of Paliano. genealogy.euweb.cz; Retrieved July 23, 2009.
  3. ↑ Francesco Petrucci: Il Palazzo Chigi di Ariccia (official guide, Italian), p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Mancini, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of the French King Louis XIV.
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1715
Place of death Pisa