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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.
Jules, Cardinal Mazarin was the first minister of France after Cardinal de Richelieu’s death in 1642. During the early years of King Louis XIV, he completed Richelieu’s work of establishing France’s supremacy among the European powers and crippling the opposition to the power of the monarchy at.
Jules Cardinal Mazarin, orig. Giulio Raimondo Mazarini, (born July 14, 1602, Pescina, Abruzzi, Kingdom of Naples—died March 9, 1661, Vincennes, France), Italian-French cardinal and statesman. A member of the papal diplomatic service (1627–34), he negotiated an end to the War of the Mantuan Succession between France and Spain.
Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), 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.
Jules, Cardinal Mazarin - French Minister, Diplomat, Statesman: Mazarin’s ambition was to put an end to the rivalry between the Catholic powers of Europe. On Richelieu’s death, however (Dec. 4, 1642), and especially after that of Louis XIII (May 14, 1643), he became first minister of France, an office that the regent, Anne of Austria ...
during the Fronde. THE relationship between the crown and the great nobility is one of the touchstones for an understanding of the political process in France and other European monarchies during the early modern period. When kings were strong, they tended to impose their will on the magnates.
Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal (1602–61) French cardinal and statesman, b. Italy. He was the protégé of Cardinal Richelieu and chief minister under Anne of Austria from 1643.
Historians have been more generous, yet have found Mazarin enigmatic and forbidding. While studies of Richelieu roll off the press, Mazarin has been cold-shouldered. Geoffrey Treasure's Mazarin, which came out last year, is the first biography in English since Hassall's Heroes of the Nations study of 1904. Nor have French writers shown much ...
Cardinal Jules Mazarin was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician who served as the Chief Minister to the King of France from 1642 until his death in 1661.
The elevation of his brother Michael Mazarin to the cardinalate (October, 1647) was one of his diplomatic victories. Though not interested in questions of theology, Mazarin detested the Jansenists for the part
