Background
Concino Concini was born in 1575 in Florence, Italy.
Concino Concini was born in 1575 in Florence, Italy.
In 1610 Concino Concini had purchased the marquisate of Ancre and the position of first gentleman-in-waiting.
Then he obtained successively the governments of Amiens and of Normandy, and in 1614 the baton of marshal. From then first minister of the realm, he abandoned the policy of Henry-IV, , compromised his wise legislation, allowed the treasury to be pillaged, and drew upon himself the hatred of all classes.
The nobles were bitterly hostile to him, particularly Conde, with whom he negotiated the treaty of Loudun in 1616, and whom he had arrested in September 1616.
But Louis XIII, incited by his favourite Charles d'Albert, due de Luynes, was tired of Concini's tutelage.
Leonora was accused of sorcery and sent to the stake in the same year. In 1767 appeared at Brescia a De Concini vita, by D. Sandellius.
Concino Concini was the most influential in France by a man during the seven years that followed the death in 1610 wife Mary, of Henry IV.
Concino Concini was married to Leonora Dori, known as "Galigaï".
