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Mistress of Louis XIV (1639–1715)

This article is about the mistress of Luis XIV of France and Princess of Paliano. For her sister, the Duchess of Bouillon, see Marie Anne Mancini.

Anna Maria "Marie" Mancini, Princess of Paliano (28 August 1639 – 8 May 1715) was the third of the five Mancini sisters, nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously.

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His first love, Marie Mancini, was Mazarin's niece but both the cardinal and Anne of Austria were vehemently opposed to this union, and the brief encounter.

Marie Mancini was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin and a sister of the famous Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Nemours.

Along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, the Mancini sisters were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes. Marie is an ancestor of Queen Paola of Belgium.

Early life and family

Mancini was born on 28 August 1639 and grew up in Rome.

Her father was Baron Lorenzo Mancini, an Italian aristocrat who was also a necromancer and astrologer. After his death in 1650, her mother, Geronima Mazzarini, brought her daughters from Rome to Paris in the hope of using the influence of her brother, Cardinal Mazarin, to gain them advantageous marriages.

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