Andrew Goff World History - 3 Cardinal Mazarin 19 October 14 Cardinal Mazarin Cardinal Mazarin, or Jules Mazarin was a diplomat, cardinal, and politician who served as the chief minister of France almost all his life, to his death. Mazarin followed after his mentor, Cardinal Richelieu, he collected jewels and art mainly diamonds. He even had some of his diamonds put into the Louvre museum in Paris. Mazarin was born in Pescina, part of the Kingdom of Naples, though raised in Rome. His parents names were Pietro Mazzarini and Ortensia Buffalini, his mother was from a family of nobles within Umbria. The Cardinal was from a family of great popularity as almost everyone in his family was a noble, or important person of some type. His father lost a ton of money and was forced out of Rome but he had great connections. …show more content… The wins of Condé and Turenne took the French party to the bargaining table at the end of the Thirty Years' War with the Treaty of Munster and Treaty of Osnabrück (Treaty of Westphalia), in how Mazarin's policies were French and not Catholic and brought Alsace to France. He set Protestant princes in closed bishoprics and abbacies in reward for their political difference to Austria. In 1658 he started the League of the Rhine, which was made to check the House of Austria in Germany. In 1659 he formed an alliance with Habsburg Spain in the Peace of the Pyrenees, which gained to French territory Roussillon and Cerdanya as French Cerdagne in the south as well as part of the Low Show More
