Spouse(s) Ortensia Buffalini Parents Giulio Mazzarini Role Cardinal Mazarin's father | Name Pietro Mazzarini Noble family Mazzarini | |
Mother Marguerite de Franchis-Passavera Died February 4, 1654, Rome, Italy Children Cardinal Mazarin, Laura Margherita Mazzarini Grandchildren Laura Martinozzi, Anne Marie Martinozzi Similar People Cardinal Mazarin, Laura Martinozzi, Hortense Mancini, Marie Mancini, Anne Marie Martinozzi | ||
Great grandchildren Mary of Modena | ||
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Pietro Mazzarini (1576 in Mazzarino – 4 February 1654 in Rome) was an Italian courtier and the father of Cardinal Jules Mazarin.
Mazzarini's father, Giulio Mazzarini, was a Sicilian craftsman who was successful enough to educate his sons. Mazzarini excelled in school and became a notary. After his father's death, Mazzarini traveled to Rome and found employment in the household of Filippo I Colonna, the grand Constable of Naples. Colonna encouraged Mazzarini to marry his goddaughter, Ortensia Buffalini, a woman of a noble family of Città di Castello in Umbria with an ample dowry. They married and had six children.
Both of Mazzarini's sons entered the church; Jules as a Cardinal and advisor to French kings, and Michele as archbishop of Aix-en-Provence. Mazzarini also had four daughters, including Laura and Girolama, the mothers of the Mazarinettes.