Vicente Sartorius, 4th Marquess of Mariño


Vicente Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, 4th Marquess de Mariño was a Spanish nobleman and Olympic bobsledder. He was born in Madrid.

Bobsledding career

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.

Personal life

He was the second child and son of Carlos Sartorius y Díaz de Mendoza and his first wife, María de Lourdes Cabeza de Vaca y Carvajal. 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 from Argentina on 24 April 1964 at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Buenos Aires; they later divorced in 1974. Together they had three children, two daughters and one son:
Secondly in 1988, he married Princess Nora of Liechtenstein 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.