Anne de Gonzague de Clèves
Anne Marie of Gonzague de Clèves , Palatine Princess, was born in Paris in 1616 and died the July 6th 1684.
Girl of Charles I {{er}} of Gonzague, duke of Mantoue, and Catherine of Lorraine, it was initially intended for the monastic life but, after the death of his/her father in 1637, it was diverted this vocation and carried out an adventurous life.
It fell passionately in love with her cousin Henri II from Own way, with which it stated later to have contracted a secret marriage in 1639. She disguised herself as a man to join it with Sedan in 1640, but he gave up it in 1641. It brought a lawsuit to him to be made recognize like his wife.
In 1645, it married, without enthusiasm, Edouard of Bavaria (Pfalz-Simmern), wire of Frederic V of Palatinat, Prince Palatin of the Rhine, without ground and passably desilvered, that the court of France refused to accommodate. It carried out merry life, and the chronicle lent many affairs to him. She was shown to have tried, with her friend the Grand Cop and the doctor of this last, the abbot Bourdelot, to make burn a piece of the true Cross.
Very related to the Cop, she played a considerable part during the Fronde, being used as liaison officer between the Princes and the Court. But as well the cardinal Mazarin as Louis XIV held it remotely.
In 1660, it was named surintendante house of the Reine, pursuant to a promise which went up with 1651, but it had to dislocate its load on order of the King as of March 1661.
The marriage of his/her second daughter, Anne of Bavaria (1648-1723), with Henri Jules de Bourbon-Cop, Duke of Enghien, the December 11th 1663, came to restore its position. To conclude it, of the hard negociations had been necessary. Marie Louise de Mantoue, queen of Poland, sister of Anne, had designated her niece like her heiress and had been committed supporting the candidature of the duke of Enghien for the Polish throne. She managed moreover to marry another of her daughters to the duke of Brunswick and Hanover. She negotiated finally the marriage, in 1671, of Charlotte-Elisabeth of Bavaria (1652-1722), niece of her husband, with Philippe de France (1640-1701), brother of the King.
Into 1671, it converts and changed completely its manner of living. She died in the devotion in 1684. Bossuet pronounced its famous Funeral oration.
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