Olympia Mancini
Olympia Mancini (* 1639 in Rome , † October 9, 1708 in Brussels ) was one of the so-called Mazarinettes (French: Mazarinettes ) and mistress of the French King Louis XIV. By marrying Eugen Moritz von Savoyen-Carignan , she was Comtesse de Soissons from 1657 .
Life
Olympia was the daughter of Michele Lorenzo Barone di Mancini and Geronima Mazarini and thus the niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin . She grew up in the Palais Royal with King Louis XIV, who was two years her senior, and became a close confidante of the young king. In 1657 she was married to Eugen Moritz von Savoyen-Carignan, described as benign, who bore the title of his mother (a Condé ), Count von Soissons. Three years later she became the superintendent in the court of Queen Marie Therese . The favor of Louis XIV lasted until 1665, when Olympia made the king's relationship with Louise de La Vallière public with an intrigue .
Eight years later she became a widow. In 1679 she was heavily burdened in the process of the poison affair around La Voisin . She was suspected of poisoning her husband and fled to Holland with her children in January 1680 . But even there she was insulted as a poisoner and had to be placed under protection from the angry population by the governor of the Spanish Netherlands .
Olympia traveled a lot, including living in Madrid for a while to find a bride for one of her sons, but was there suspected of having brought a deadly poison to the Spanish Queen Marie Louise , who died on February 12, 1689 . She did not return to France until her death and her son never married. One of her other sons, the famous Prince Eugene , as Austrian general, brought Ludwig XIV to his knees in the War of the Spanish Succession .
Her children with Eugen Moritz, to whom she hardly cared, were:
- Louis Thomas (* 1657; † 1702)
- Philippe (* 1659; † 1693)
- Louis Jules (* 1660; † 1683)
- Emanuel Philibert (* 1662; † 1676)
- Marie Jeanne (* 1665; † 1705)
- Eugen Franz (* 1663; † 1736)
- Louise Philiberte (* 1667; † 1726)
- Françoise (* 1668; † 1671)
Only Olympia's eldest son married, albeit far below his standing, whereupon his mother disinherited him. The Soissons title expired in 1734 with his grandson. Prince Eugene had never led him because he wanted nothing to do with France.
See also Mazarin-Mancini house
literature
- Otto Flake : Great ladies of the baroque. Historical portraits . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-22273-7 , pp. 36-55.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mancini, Olympia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | by marriage Countess von Soissons, mistress of Louis XIV. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1639 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1708 |
| Place of death | Brussels |