Francesco Maria Mancini (20 October 1606,

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– 1672) was an Italian

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of the

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. He was made a cardinal by

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, in reward for contributing to Alexander's election as pope.

Life

He was the son of Paolo, Signore Illustrissimo, and of the noblewoman Vittoria Capocci. Made a

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of Santi Vito e Modesto, then a cardinal in 1660, holding the titulus of San Matteo in Merulana. His older brother, Baron Lorenzo Mancini, married Geronima Mazzarini, the sister of Cardinal

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, the chief minister to King

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. Upon Lorenzo's death in 1650, his widow took her family to France in the hope that her brother could arrange advantageous marriages for them. Lorenzo's five daughters became famous at the French court for their beauty and wit. They were known as the

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. Later, one of his nieces,

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, returned to Rome in 1661 and married Prince Lorenzo Colonna. She was followed by her sister, Hortense, in 1668. Hortense, who was fleeing her abusive husband, Charles de La Porte, duc de La Meilleraye, scandalized her uncle with her libertine ways.

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