Anne Marie Martinozzi
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Anne Marie Martinozzi, Princess of Conti
(1637 – 4 February 1672) was a niece of King Louis XIV of France
's chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, and the wife of Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
. She became the mother of the libertine
François Louis, Prince of Conti
, le Grand Conti. Her marriage to the Prince of Conti made her a princesse du Sang
.
to Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini
, the elder sister of Jules Mazarin, who was Cardinal
and Prime Minister
during the minority of Louis XIV
.
She and her younger sister Laura
were brought to France
by her uncle, as were her maternal cousins, the Mancini sisters: Laura
, Marie
, Olympe, Hortense
, and Marie Anne
. The seven nieces of Cardinal Mazarin came to be known as the Mazarinettes
by the French court. Mazarin managed to secure advantageous marriages for all of them. Her niece was Mary of Modena
, future Queen of England.
In 1654, she married Armand de Bourbon
, Prince of Conti (1629–1666). The marriage took place at the Palais du Louvre
22 February 1654; The couple had three children, two of whom reached adulthood:
She acted as the godmother by proxy to le Grand Dauphin for Henrietta Maria of France
, the dauphins own aunt (24 March 1668).
Anne Marie died in Paris at the Hôtel de Conti
; she was aged roughly 35. She never saw the birth of her first grandchild Marie Anne de Bourbon.
Princess of Conti
-First Creation:-Second Creation:...
(1637 – 4 February 1672) was a niece of King Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
's chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, and the wife of Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti
Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti was a French nobleman, the second son of Henry II, Prince of Condé and brother of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and Anne Genevieve, Duchess of Longueville. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince du Sang.The title of Prince de Conti...
. She became the mother of the libertine
Libertine
A libertine is one devoid of most moral restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behavior sanctified by the larger society. Libertines, also known as rakes, placed value on physical pleasures, meaning those...
François Louis, Prince of Conti
François Louis, Prince of Conti
François Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conti was Prince de Conti, succeeding his brother Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti in 1685. Until this date he used the title of Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon. He was son of Armand de Bourbon and Anne Marie Martinozzi, niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin...
, le Grand Conti. Her marriage to the Prince of Conti made her a princesse du Sang
Prince du Sang
A prince of the blood was a person who was legitimately descended in the male line from the monarch of a country. In France, the rank of prince du sang was the highest held at court after the immediate family of the king during the ancien régime and the Bourbon Restoration...
.
Biography
Anna Maria Martinozzi was born in RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
to Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini
Laura Margherita Mazzarini
Laura Margherita Mazzarini was the daughter of Pietro Mazzarini and Ortensia Buffalini.On July 9, 1634, she was married to Count Girolamo Martinozzi...
, the elder sister of Jules Mazarin, who was Cardinal
Cardinal (Catholicism)
A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
and Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
during the minority of Louis XIV
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
.
She and her younger sister Laura
Laura Martinozzi
Laura Martinozzi was a Duchess consort of Modena. On the death of her husband, she became the regent of the Duchy in the name of her son, Francesco.-Biography:...
were brought to France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
by her uncle, as were her maternal cousins, the Mancini sisters: Laura
Laura Mancini
Laura Mancini, duchess of Mercœur and Vendôme was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin. She was the eldest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes...
, Marie
Marie Mancini
Anna Maria Mancini was the third of the five Mancini sisters; nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously...
, Olympe, Hortense
Hortense Mancini
Hortense Mancini, duchesse Mazarin , was the favourite niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland...
, and Marie Anne
Marie Anne Mancini
Marie Anne Mancini, duchesse de Bouillon , was the youngest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes because their uncle was the king's chief minister, Cardinal...
. The seven nieces of Cardinal Mazarin came to be known as the Mazarinettes
Mazarinettes
The Mazarinettes were the seven nieces of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the Chief Minister of France during the youth of King Louis XIV. He brought them, together with three of his nephews, from Italy to France in the years 1647 and 1653. Afterwards, he arranged advantageous marriages for them to...
by the French court. Mazarin managed to secure advantageous marriages for all of them. Her niece was Mary of Modena
Mary of Modena
Mary of Modena was Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of King James II and VII. A devout Catholic, Mary became, in 1673, the second wife of James, Duke of York, who later succeeded his older brother Charles II as King James II...
, future Queen of England.
In 1654, she married Armand de Bourbon
Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti
Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti was a French nobleman, the second son of Henry II, Prince of Condé and brother of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and Anne Genevieve, Duchess of Longueville. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince du Sang.The title of Prince de Conti...
, Prince of Conti (1629–1666). The marriage took place at the Palais du Louvre
Louvre
The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
22 February 1654; The couple had three children, two of whom reached adulthood:
- Louis de Bourbon (Hôtel de Conti, 6 September 1658 - Hôtel de Conti, 14 September 1658)
- Louis Armand de BourbonLouis Armand I, Prince of ContiLouis Armand I de Bourbon was Prince of Conti from 1666 to his death, succeeding his father, Armand de Bourbon. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince du Sang....
, Prince of Conti (Hôtel de Conti, 4 April 1661- Palace of Fontainebleau 9 November 1685)- married Marie Anne de BourbonMarie Anne de BourbonMarie Anne de Bourbon, Légitimée de France was the eldest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and Louise de La Vallière. At the age of thirteen, she was married to Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti and as such was the Princess of Conti by marriage...
, his cousin, in 1680. - died childless at age 24; title passed to younger brother.
- married Marie Anne de Bourbon
- François Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (Hôtel de Conti, 30 April 1664 - Hôtel de Conti, 22 February 1709)
- married Marie Thérèse de Bourbon in 1680; the couple were the titular monarchs of Poland in 1697.
- had three legitimate children who survived infancy; only one of them, his only son, Louis Armand II, had children.
- had multiple affairs with both men and women; most notably with Louise-Françoise de BourbonLouise-Françoise de BourbonLouise Françoise de Bourbon, Légitimée de France was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, the woman that her mother had replaced as the king's...
, wife of Louis III, Prince of CondéLouis III, Prince of CondéLouis de Bourbon, , was Prince of Condé for less than a year, following the death of his father Henry III, Prince of Condé in 1709...
, who was the eldest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. Marie Anne de Bourbon, the daughter of Louise-Françoise de Bourbon was thought to have been the fruit of this affair. - descendants include: Louis-Philippe I, King of the French; the present-day pretenderPretenderA pretender is one who claims entitlement to an unavailable position of honour or rank. Most often it refers to a former monarch, or descendant thereof, whose throne is occupied or claimed by a rival, or has been abolished....
s to the throne of FranceOrléanistThe Orléanists were a French right-wing/center-right party which arose out of the French Revolution. It governed France 1830-1848 in the "July Monarchy" of king Louis Philippe. It is generally seen as a transitional period dominated by the bourgeoisie and the conservative Orleanist doctrine in...
and ItalyVittorio Emanuele, Prince of NaplesVittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, formerly Crown Prince of Italy is the only son of the Umberto II, the last King of Italy. He is commonly known in Italy as Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia...
; and the kings of SpainJuan Carlos I of SpainJuan Carlos I |Italy]]) is the reigning King of Spain.On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos was designated king according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco. Spain had no monarch for 38 years in 1969 when Franco named Juan Carlos as the...
and BelgiumAlbert II of BelgiumAlbert II is the current reigning King of the Belgians, a constitutional monarch. He is a member of the royal house "of Belgium"; formerly this house was named Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
.
She acted as the godmother by proxy to le Grand Dauphin for Henrietta Maria of France
Henrietta Maria of France
Henrietta Maria of France ; was the Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I...
, the dauphins own aunt (24 March 1668).
Anne Marie died in Paris at the Hôtel de Conti
Hôtel de Conti
The Hôtel de Conti, sometimes the Palais Conti refers to two Parisian townhouse's that were the property of the Princes of Conti, the relatives of the ruling Kings of France and Princes of the blood.-History:...
; she was aged roughly 35. She never saw the birth of her first grandchild Marie Anne de Bourbon.
Titles and styles
- 1637 - 22 February 1654 Lady Anna Maria Martinozzi
- 22 February 1654 - 21 February 1666 Her Serene HighnessSerene HighnessHis/Her Serene Highness is a style used today by the reigning families of Liechtenstein and Monaco. It also preceded the princely titles of members of some German ruling and mediatised dynasties as well as some non-ruling but princely German noble families until 1918...
the Princess of Conti (Madame la Princesse de Conti) - 21 February 1666 – 4 February 1672 Her Serene HighnessSerene HighnessHis/Her Serene Highness is a style used today by the reigning families of Liechtenstein and Monaco. It also preceded the princely titles of members of some German ruling and mediatised dynasties as well as some non-ruling but princely German noble families until 1918...
the Dowager Princess of Conti (Madame la Princesse de Conti douairière)
External links
- Genealogy of her family worldroots.com
- Portrait of a noblewoman thought to be the Princesse de Conti