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Mazarinettes, the Glossary

The Mazarinettes were the seven nieces of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, (1639–1661), chief minister to the Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France from 1642 until his death.^[1]

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Affair of the Poisons

The Affair of the Poisons (affaire des poisons) was a major murder scandal in France during the reign of King Louis XIV.

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Alfonso IV d'Este

Alfonso IV d'Este (2 February 1634 – 16 July 1662) was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1658 until his death.

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Anne Marie Martinozzi, Princess of Conti (1637 – 4 February 1672) was a French aristocrat and court official. Mazarinettes and Anne Marie Martinozzi are 17th-century French nobility and court of Louis XIV.

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Anne of Austria

Anne of Austria (Anne d'Autriche; Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. Mazarinettes and Anne of Austria are court of Louis XIV.

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Armand Charles de La Porte, 2nd Duke of La Meilleraye

Armand Charles de La Porte, 2nd Duke of La Meilleraye (1632 – 9 November 1713), was a French general, who was Grand Master and Captain General of Artillery.

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Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti

Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (11 October 162926 February 1666), was a French nobleman, the younger son of Henri II, Prince of Condé and Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, daughter of Henri I, Duke of Montmorency.

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Cardinal Mazarin

Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. After serving as a papal diplomat for Pope Urban VIII, Mazarin offered his diplomatic services to Cardinal Richelieu and moved to Paris in 1640. Mazarinettes and Cardinal Mazarin are court of Louis XIV.

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Chief minister of France

The chief minister of France or, closer to the French term, chief minister of state (principal ministre d'État), or prime minister of France were and are informal titles given to various personages who received various degrees of power to rule the Kingdom of France on behalf of the monarch during the Ancien Régime ('Old Regime').

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Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church

Clerical celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood in the Latin Church (one of the 24 rites of the catholic church with some particular exception and in some autonomous particular Churches), and similarly to the diaconate.

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Counts and dukes of Anjou

The count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by Charles the Bald in the 9th century to Robert the Strong.

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Counts of Soissons

This is a list of those who bore the title Count of Soissons (Comte de Soissons) and ruled Soissons and its civitas or diocese as a county in the Middle Ages.

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Duke of Mercœur

The Seigneurs and Dukes of Mercœur were a line of powerful lords deriving their name from the estate of Mercœur in Auvergne, France.

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François Louis, Prince of Conti

François Louis de Bourbon, le Grand Conti (30 April 1664 – 22 February 1709),, Encyclopædia Britannica online, accessed 24 June 2020;, BnF.

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Gaston, Duke of Orléans

Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de' Medici.

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Girolama Mazzarini

Girolama or Geronima Mazarini (1608 or 1614 – 29 December 1656) was the sister of Cardinal Mazarin, the chief minister of France at the start of the reign of King Louis XIV of France.

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Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon

Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (21 June 1636 – 26 July 1721) was a French nobleman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, one of the most important families in France at the time. Mazarinettes and Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon are People of the Ancien Régime.

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Hortense Mancini

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. Mazarinettes and Hortense Mancini are 17th-century French nobility.

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism was a political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.

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Laura Mancini

Laura Mancini, Duchess of Mercœur (6 May 1636 – 8 February 1657) was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarinettes and Laura Mancini are 17th-century French nobility.

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Laura Margherita Mazzarini

Laura Margherita Mazzarini (1608–9 June 1685) was the daughter of Pietro Mazzarini and Ortensia Buffalini.

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Laura Martinozzi

Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena and Reggio (22 April 1639 – 19 July 1687), niece of the Chief minister of France Jules Cardinal Mazarin and one of the Mazarinettes, by marriage became Duchess consort of Modena and Reggio, and following the death of her husband, she acted as regent for her minor son during 1662–1674.

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Libertine

A libertine is a person questioning and challenging most moral principles, such as responsibility or sexual restraints, and will often declare these traits as unnecessary or undesirable.

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List of Duchesses of Bouillon

There have been duchesses of Bouillon, in present-day Belgium, since the tenth century.

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Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, 8th Prince of Paliano

Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna (1637–1689) was an Italian nobleman of the Colonna family.

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Louis XIII

Louis XIII (sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. Mazarinettes and Louis XIV are People of the Ancien Régime.

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Louis, Duke of Vendôme

Louis de Bourbon (October 1612 – 6 August 1669), was Duke of Mercœur and later the second Duke of Vendôme, and the grandson of Henry IV of France and Gabrielle d'Estrées.

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Maîtresse-en-titre

The maîtresse-en-titre was the official royal mistress of the King of France.

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Mancini family

The House of Mancini was the name of one of the oldest families of Roman nobility.

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Maria Theresa of Spain

Maria Theresa of Spain (María Teresa de Austria; Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. Mazarinettes and Maria Theresa of Spain are 17th-century French nobility and court of Louis XIV.

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Marie Anne Mancini

Marie Anne Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon (1649 – 20 June 1714), was an Italian-French aristocrat and cultural patron, the youngest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of Louis XIV, King of France as the Mazarinettes, because their uncle was the king's chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarinettes and Marie Anne Mancini are 17th-century French nobility.

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Marie 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. Mazarinettes and Marie Mancini are 17th-century French nobility.

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Marshal of France

Marshal of France (Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements.

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Mary of Modena

Mary of Modena (Maria Beatrice Eleonora Anna Margherita Isabella d'Este) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James II and VII.

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Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a woman who is in a relatively long-term sexual and romantic relationship with someone who is married to a different person.

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Monsieur

Monsieur (pl. Messieurs;; 1512, from Middle French mon sieur, literally "my lord") is an honorific title that was used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court.

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Nicolas de Neufville, 1st Duke of Villeroy

Nicolas de Neufville, 1st Duke of Villeroy (14 October 1598 – 28 November 1685) was a French nobleman and marshal of France.

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Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons

Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons (French: Olympe Mancini; 11 July 1638 – 9 October 1708) was the second-eldest of the five celebrated 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 Louis XIV's chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarinettes and Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons are 17th-century French nobility.

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Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. Mazarinettes and Philippe I, Duke of Orléans are People of the Ancien Régime.

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Pretender

A pretender is someone who claims to be the rightful ruler of a country although not recognized as such by the current government.

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Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano (18 October 1663 in Paris – 21 April 1736 in Vienna), better known as Prince Eugene, was a distinguished field marshal in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Princes of Conti

Prince of Conti (French: prince de Conti) was a French noble title, assumed by a cadet branch of the princely house of Bourbon-Condé.

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Princes of Paliano

The title Duke and Prince of Paliano is borne by the head of the elder line of the Colonna family.

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Regent

In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to govern a state for the time being because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.

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Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine

Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine ("Superintendent of the Queen's Household"), or only Surintendante, was the senior lady-in-waiting at the royal court of France from 1619 until the French revolution.

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The Fronde

The Fronde were a series of civil wars in the Kingdom of France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. Mazarinettes and the Fronde are Cardinal Mazarin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazarinettes

Mazarinettes, the Glossary

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Cardinal Mazarin

Court of Louis XIV

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