Personal Life
He was the second child and son of Carlos Sartorius y Díaz de Mendoza (1898–1966) and his wife María de Lourdes Cabeza de Vaca y Carvajal (born 1903). Via his father he was a great-grandson of Luis José Sartorius, 1st Count of San Luis, who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1853 to 1854, during the reign of Queen Isabella II.
After the death of his elder brother, Antonio Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, 3rd Marquess de Mariño, on 24 December 1976, he succeeded as the 4th Marquess de Mariño.
Sartorius married first in Isabel Zorraquín y de Corral (1940-2009) from Argentina, but they divorced later in life. Together they had three children, two daughters and one son:
- Isabel Sartorius y Zorraquín, born in Madrid, Spain, in 1965. After the divorce of her parents, when her mother remarried in 1978 she went to live with her in Lima, Peru and she later studied in Washington, DC. She had a relationship around 1989 to 1991 with Felipe, Prince of Asturias, Isabel says that the relationship ended because both were very young, and he adds that Queen Sofía was always very supported. She later had a relationship with Javier de Soto y Fitzjames-Stuart with whom she had a daughter, Mencía de Soto y Sartorius, who was born on 25 July 1997 at Madrid, Spain . 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 and refers to her relationship with her mother through the times when her mother was addicted to cocaine.
- Cecilia Sartorius y Zorraquín (born 1967), who married 1990 Federico Green from Argentina; They had three children: Marcos Bartolomé, Federico and Antonia.
- Luis José Sartorius y Zorraquín, 5th Marquess de Mariño (born 1970), who became the new Marquess since 2002. He has a relationship with Bárbara Pérez Manzarbeitia and they have one son, Vicente (born 2011), and one daughter, Isabel (born 2012).
Secondly in 1988, he married Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (born 1950). With the princess he had one daughter:
- María Teresa Sartorius y de Liechtenstein (born November 1992).
Sartorius died of a heart attack during holiday in Ibiza, Spain. He was buried two days later.
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