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; 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: • Isabel Sartorius y Zorraquín (born in Madrid in 1965); after the divorce of her parents, when her mother remarried in 1978, she went to live with her in
Lima, Peru. 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 supportive. She later had a relationship with Javier de Soto y FitzJames-Stuart, a descendant of
James II of England via his son,
James FitzJames, with whom she had a daughter, Mencía de Soto y Sartorius, who was born on 25 July 1997 at Madrid, Spain. They had three children: Marcos Bartolomé, Pablo Federico and Antonia. • Luis José Sartorius y Zorraquín, 5th Marquess of Mariño (born 1970); became the new marquess upon his father's death in 2002. He has a relationship with Bárbara Pérez Manzarbeitia, and they have one son, Vicente (born 2011), and one daughter, Isabel (born 2012). They married on 22 June 2013. Secondly in 1988, he married
Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (born 1950) at
St. Florin's in
Vaduz. 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. == References ==