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    Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj, Princess of San Martino (26 May 1591 – 27 September 1657), (also spelled Pamphili and known as Olimpia Pamphili), was the...
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    regarded him not only as his physician but also as a private advisor. Olimpia Maidalchini was married to Innocent X's late brother, and was believed to be...
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    Francesco Maidalchini (1647), nephew of Olimpia Maidalchini Camillo Astalli (1650 as "Camillo Astalli-Pamphili"), a cousin of Olimpia Maidalchini whom the...
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    1631 in Viterbo, the son of Andrea Maidalchini and Pacifica Feliziani. His father was the brother of Olimpia Maidalchini; sister-in-law of Pope Innocent...
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    Sculpture of Olimpia Maidalchini wearing a widow's hood....
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    His father, Pamphilio Pamphili, had moved to Naples with his wife Olimpia Maidalchini, after his brother, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphili, (future...
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    commemorate the Holy Year was commissioned by his hedonistic sister-in-law Olimpia Maidalchini, who was his close confidante and adviser, and some say mistress...
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    death of her husband, in 1647, she married Camillo Pamphili (son of Olimpia Maidalchini and nephew of Pope Innocent X) who renounced a cardinalate to become...
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    the sole heiress of Clement X's family. Many historians consider Olimpia Maidalchini, the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X (1644–1655), to have been a...
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    a cardinal in order to marry. Instead, Innocent's sister-in-law Olimpia Maidalchini handled all of the functions that would ordinarily have been the...
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    Following his brother's marriage to Catherine Maidalchini Tiberius, the niece of Olimpia Maidalchini, sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X, he began his...
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    Pope Innocent X:s sister-in-law, Olimpia Maidalchini. While the Pope had his apartment facing the Piazza Navona, Olimpia had her apartment on the opposite...
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  • houses of Giustiniani and Barberini. She was the granddaughter of Olimpia Maidalchini, grand-niece of Pope Innocent X and wife of Maffeo Barberini, Prince...
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    (1585–1641) Alessandro Spinola, Doge of Genoa (1589–1665) Donna Olimpia Maidalchini (1591–1657) Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (1595–1632) Honoré Grimaldi...
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    former 13th-century Cistercian monastery, acquired circa 1647 by Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj (1591-1657), sister in law of Pope Innocent X Pamphili,...
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  • Sculpture of Olimpia Maidalchini wearing a widow's hood....
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  • (b. 1536) 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. c.1600) 1657 – Olimpia Maidalchini, Roman noble (b. 1591) 1557 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)...
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    his conclusion was convenient - Astalli was a rival for power to Olimpia Maidalchini, Azzolino's own patron. Contemporary John Bargrave noted that there...
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    Herman, Eleanor (2009) Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope (HarperCollins) Zapperi, Roberto (12 February...
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    the following 9 May. One of his first acts as pope was to order Olimpia Maidalchini (known popularly as "la papessa" due to her extraordinary influence...
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  • Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (d. 1631) May 26 – Olimpia Maidalchini, Italian noblewoman (d. 1657) June 16 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo...
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  • seeking his fortune. In Rome he succeeded to enter in the service of Olimpia Maidalchini, the powerful sister-in-law of reigning Pope Innocent X. At the death...
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    Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (d. 1631) May 26 – Olimpia Maidalchini, Italian noblewoman (d. 1657) June 16 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo...
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    when it was bought by Pamfilio Pamfili, who had married the heiress Olimpia Maidalchini, to enjoy as a suburban villa. Thereafter he set about buying up...
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  • Rosso. In Rome, he married Olimpia Maidalchini, who was related to the mother of Pope Innocent X, and to the Cardinasl Maidalchini, Spada, and Carpegna. Unable...
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    Sant'Andrea by Mattia Preti (1650–1651), as commissioned by Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X. The Baroque facade was added between...
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    centerpiece was gifted from Pope Innocent to his sister-in-law, Olimpia Maidalchini, and was then used for her garden along River Tiber. Bernini’s second...
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    Jungius, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1587) September 27 – Olimpia Maidalchini, politically active Roman noble (b. 1591) October 4 – Prince Maurice...
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    X's sister-in-law Olimpia Maidalchini Resigned 21 January 1647 Francesco Maidalchini† 7 October 1647 Nephew of Olimpia Maidalchini Camillo Astalli† 19...
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    Jungius, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1587) September 27 – Olimpia Maidalchini, politically active Roman noble (b. 1591) October 4 – Prince Maurice...
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