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Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (6 June 1646 – 2 July 1699), was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She was the fourth 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 .
Apr 20, 2009 · pp. £12.50. ISBN 978 0 2265 0279 3. As an introduction to this volume from the Other Voices in early modern Europe collection, Sarah Nelson reminds the reader how unusual the positions of Hortense and Marie Mancini were as autobiographers in mid-seventeenth-century France. Narrating in the first person their ‘respective struggle to win the ...
- Emmanuelle Chaze
- 2009
In 1646, Hortense Mancini was born to Roman nobleman Lorenzo Mancini and Hieronyma Mazzarini, the sister of the powerful Cardinal of Mazarin, the first minister of the French King Louis XIV. As described by her biographer Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, the Cardinal invited Hortense and her four sisters and two cousins to live at the Palais Mazarin in Paris, to be brought up at the French court.
Apr 21, 2023 · Hortense Mancini was born in Rome on June 6th, 1646, into a great noble family. She was the fourth of five sisters — Laure, Olympe, Marie, Hortense herself, and Marie Anne.
May 8, 2024 · Keywords: Cardinal Mazarin, Mémoires of Hortense Mancini, divorces in France, literary salons, royal mistresses, early modern women A complex woman whose controversial life inspired novels and essays, Hortense Mancini (1646–1699) eloquently exemplifies the difficulties that early modern women endured in their lives and their agency in resolving them.
Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin (1646–1699), was many things in her life. She was a mother, noblewoman, exiled wife and autobiographer. But perhaps one of her greatest legacies is her influence on how we drink and think of Champagne today. The Runaway Duchess. Born to a noble family in Rome, Mancini’s father died when she was four.
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Born on June 6 in 1646, Ortensia was the second youngest of the Mancini sisters, who along with their Martinozzi cousins were known as les Mazarinettes. Hortense Mancini by Jacob Ferdinand Voet. Ortensia was six years old as she arrived in France with her sisters and like them, swiftly adopted the French style of her name, Hortense.
