Anne Marie Martinozzi
Princess of Conti
Born1637
Rome, Italy
Died4 February 1672
Hôtel de Conti (quai Conti), Paris, France
SpouseArmand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
IssueLouis de Bourbon
Louis Armand de Bourbon
François Louis de Bourbon
HouseHouse of Bourbon
FatherGirolamo Martinozzi
MotherLaura Margherita Mazzarini
SignatureAnne Marie Martinozzi's signature

Anne Marie Martinozzi, Princess of Conti (1637 – 4 February 1672) was a French aristocrat and court official. She 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. She served as Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine for the queen dowager, Anne of Austria, between 1657 and 1666.

Biography

Anna Maria Martinozzi was born in Rome to Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini, the daughter of Pietro Mazzarini and the elder sister of Jules Mazarin, who was Cardinal and Prime Minister during the minority of Louis XIV of France.

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.

In 1660 she and her husband began living at an hôtel on the quai Malaquais, which became known as the Hôtel de Conti.[1] They had two sons, Louis Armand (born 1661) and François Louis (born 1664). Her husband died in 1666.

She acted as the godmother by proxy to le Grand Dauphin for Henrietta Maria of France, the dauphins own aunt (24 March 1668).

In 1670, Anne Marie exchanged her townhouse on the quai Malaquais and her beautiful country house in Bouchet for the Hôtel Guénégaud on the quai de Nevers. The house on the quai Malaquais became the Hôtel du Plessis-Guénégaud, her new house became the Hôtel de Conti, and the quai de Nevers became the quai de Conti.[2] She died in Paris at her hôtel on the quai Conti in 1672; she was aged roughly 35. She never saw the birth of her first grandchild Marie Anne de Bourbon.

Issue

She had three children, two of whom reached adulthood:

Ancestry

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Alexandre Gady (2008), Les Hôtels particuliers de Paris du Moyen Âge à la Belle Époque (Paris: Parigramme, ISBN 9782840962137), p. 314.
  2. ↑ André Mauban (1944), Jean Marot: Architecte et Graveur Parisien (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, OCLC 7057275), p. 286.
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