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Vicente Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca | |
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Marquess of Mariño | |
Born | 20 November 1931 Madrid, Spain |
Died | 22 July 2002 Ibiza, Spain | (aged 70)
Buried | 24 July 2002 |
Noble family | Sartorius |
Spouse(s) | Isabel Zorraquín y de Corral (m. 1964; div. 1974) |
Issue | Isabel Sartorius y Zorraquín Cecilia Sartorius y Zorraquín Luis José Sartorius y Zorraquín, 5th Marquess of Mariño María Teresa Sartorius y de Liechtenstein |
Father | Carlos Sartorius y Díaz de Mendoza |
Mother | María de Lourdes Cabeza de Vaca y Carvajal |
Vicente Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, 4th Marquess of Mariño (20 November 1931 – 22 July 2002) [1] was a Spanish nobleman and Olympic bobsledder. He was born in Madrid.
In the 1950s, Sartorius had a professional bobsled career. He competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, finishing fourth in the two-man event and ninth in the four-man event.
He was the second child and son of Carlos Sartorius y Díaz de Mendoza (1898–1966) and his first wife, María de Lourdes Cabeza de Vaca y Carvajal (1903–1940). Through his father he was a great-grandson of Luis José Sartorius, 1st Count de San Luis, who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1853 to 1854, during the reign of Queen Isabella II. By his mother´s family side he was a first cousin of both the Marquess of Portago known as Alfonso de Portago and of the actor and writer Jose Luis de Villallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellbell.
After the death of his elder brother, Antonio Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, 3rd Marquess of Mariño, on 24 December 1976, he succeeded as the 4th Marquess of Mariño.
Sartorius married first Isabel Zorraquín y de Corral (1940–2009) from Argentina on 24 April 1964 at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Buenos Aires; [2] they later divorced in 1974 (since the Marquess remarried in the Catholic Church in 1988, it should be supposed that his first marriage got a canonical annulment before that date). Together they had three children, two daughters and one son:
In February 2012, Isabel published her memoirs, titled Por ti lo haría mil veces, which translated means For you I would do it a thousand times. In them she refers to her relationship with her mother through the times when her mother was addicted to cocaine. [4]
Secondly in 1988, he married Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (born 1950) at St. Florin's in Vaduz. With the princess he had one daughter:
Sartorius died of a heart attack during holiday in Ibiza, Spain. He was buried two days later.