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Guilio Raimondo Mazarini

Male 1602 - 1661  (58 years)


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  • Name Guilio Raimondo Mazarini  [1, 2] 
    Born 14 Jul 1602  Pescina (Abruzzo), Italia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Education 1619-1621 
    University of Alcalá de Henares (accompanied his friend and future cardinal Girolamo Colonna to Madrid) 
    Military 1625-1626 
    Captain of the papal troops in the Valtelline War 
    Education 1628 
    Obtained a doctorate in utroque iure, both canon and civil law 
    Military 1628-1630 
    Captain of the papal troops in the war of succession of Mantua 
    Occupation 26 Oct 1630 
    Favored France in his truce negotiations with Spain and Savoy which made him a favorite of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis de Richelieu 
    Occupation 1632 
    Auditor of the legation in Avignon 
    Occupation 8 May 1632 
    Canon of the patriarchal Lateran basilica 
    Occupation 17 Nov 1632 
    Protonotary apostolic 
    Occupation 8 Mar 1633 
    Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature 
    Occupation 1634 
    Vice-legate at Avignon and Nuncio extraordinary in Paris (France) 
    Occupation 17 Jan 1636 
    Spain complained of his support for Cardinal Richelieu's policies (French prime minister) and Pope Urban VIII dismissed him from the post 
    Occupation 1639 
    Placed himself at Richelieu's disposition and became a French subject 
    Occupation 3 Jan 1640 
    Established himself in Paris definitively and charged with signing a secret treaty with Savoy 
    Occupation 16 Dec 1641 
    Created cardinal in the consistory (never received the red hat and the title or deaconry) 
    Occupation 4 Dec 1642 
    Cardinal de Richelieu died and on his death bed recommended Cardinal Mazarin to King Louis XIII of France 
    Occupation 14 May 1643 
    Became a member of the Council of Regency (Queen Anne of Austria effectively bestowed power to him) 
    Occupation 1643-1648 
    Conducted the Congress of Westphalia at the end of the Thirty Years' War 
    Occupation 1648 
    Parliament, members of the nobility, military and clerics openly opposed him giving origin to the movement known as "Fronda" 
    Occupation 20 Aug 1648 
    Imprisoned leaders of the rebellious Parliament 
    Occupation 6 Jan 1649 
    Flees Paris with the Queen Regent and her sons 
    Occupation 18 Aug 1649 
    Returns to Paris with the royal family (Paix de Rueil) 
    Occupation 18 Jan 1650 
    Imprisoned the Prince de Condé 
    Occupation 6 Feb 1651 
    Attacked by the "Frondista" party and forced to escape Paris after releasing Condé (went to Brühl, Germany) 
    Occupation 5 Sep 1651 
    King Louis XIV reached adulthood and Cardinal Mazarin prepared his return to France 
    Occupation 5 Sep 1651 
    Nobles emitted a proscription order against him 
    Occupation 5 Sep 1651 
    Parliamentary judges ordered the sale of his library to raise a 50,000 "franchi" reward for his capture 
    Occupation 1652 
    His most determined "frondista" party adversaries were the Prince of Condé, the Duke of Orléans, the Cardinal de Retz and Anna-Maria de Montpensier 
    Occupation 28 Jan 1652 
    He reentered France with an army after King Louis XIV ordered his free passage (civil war erupted in Paris and other regions of the country) 
    Occupation 28 Jan 1652 
    Rejoined the King and Queen Regent at Poitiers 
    Occupation 3 Feb 1653 
    Cardinal Mazarin reentered Paris with the king and his court, applauded by the people and adulated even by "ex-Frondistes" 
    Occupation 29 Nov 1653 
    Nominated bishop of Metz by King Louis XIV (resigned in 1658 without ever been confirmed by the Holy See) 
    Military 14 Jun 1658 
    The Maréchal de Turenne (Mazarin's military arm) won the decisive Battle of Dunes in Flanders against Spanish forces 
    Occupation 7 Nov 1659 
    Concluded the war with Spain by successfully negotiating the treaty of the Pyrénées (November 1658 to November 1659) 
    Occupation 8 Feb 1661 
    Gravely ill, he was transported to Vincennes at his request 
    Will 7 Mar 1661  Left eighteen diamonds to the French crown Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Will 7 Mar 1661  Left his library of 50,000 volumes which he annexed to the Collége des Quatre Nations Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Will 7 Mar 1661  Left two million lire destined to the foundation of the Collége des Quatre Nations Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 9 Mar 1661  Château de Vincennes, ÃŽle-de-France, Val-de-Marne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Chapelle du Collège des Quatre Nations (Institut de France) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I20886  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Pietro Mazarini,   b. Abt 1575, Palermo, Sicily, Italia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1634, Roma, Italia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Mother Ortensia Buffalini,   b. 1575,   d. 1644  (Age 69 years) 
    Married Abt 1600 
    Family ID F11325  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S644] Dictionnaire général du Canada, Louis Le Jeune, (Université d'Ottawa, Canada; Imprimé en France, Firmin-Didot et Cie., Mesnil, Eure, 1931), Tome 1, p. 649.
      Dictionnaire général de biographie, histoire, littérature, agriculture, commerce, industrie et des arts, sciences, moeurs, coutumes, institutions politiques et religieuses du Canada.

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 501.


  

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