Europe's Smallest Countries: - MONACO

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1612-1662: HONORIUS II (Honoré II)
Born in 1597 in Monaco.
Father: Hercules I of Monaco. Mother: Maria di Landi.
Married in 1616 in Milan Countess Hippolyte Trivulzio (*1600,+1638).
Died in 1662 in Monaco.
Buried with his consort Princess Hippolyte at Monaco Cathedral.

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1662-1701: LOUIS I
Born in 1642 in Monaco.
Father: Prince Hercule Grimaldi of Monaco. Mother: Aurelia Spinola.
Married in 1660 at Pau Charlotte de Gramont (*1639,+1678 Paris).
His issue who reigned: ANTHONY I (*1661,+1731).
Died in 1701 in Rome.
Buried at Monaco Cathedral.
His consort Princess Charlotte was buried in the Capuchin Church in Paris.

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1701-1731: ANTHONY I (Antoine I)
Born in 1661 in Paris.
Father: Prince Louis I of Monaco. Mother: Princess Charlotte de Gramont.
Married in 1688 in Paris Countess Marie de Lorraine (*1674 Paris ,+1724 Monaco).
His issue who reigned: LOUISE-HIPPOLYTE (*1697,+1731).
Died in 1731 in Monaco.
Buried with his consort Princess Marie de Lorraine at Monaco Cathedral.

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1731: LOUISE-HIPPOLYTE
Born in 1697 in Paris.
Father: Prince Anthony I of Monaco. Mother: Princess Marie de Lorraine.
Married in 1715 in Monaco Jacques de Matignon Duc d'Estouteville (*1689 Thorigny,+1751 Paris; later James I of Monaco).
Her issue who reigned: HONORIUS III (*1720,+1795).
Died in 1731 in Monaco.
Buried at Monaco Cathedral.
Her consort Prince James I was buried in Thorigny-sur-Vire in France.

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1731-1733: JAMES I (Jacques I)
Born in 1689 at Thorigny, France as Jacques de Matignon Duc d'Estouteville.
Married in 1715 Princess Louise-Hippolyte of Monaco (*1697,+1731).
His issue who reigned: HONORIUS III (*1720,+1795).
Abdicated in 1733 in favour of his son Honorius III.
Died in 1751 in Paris. Buried in Thorigny-sur-Vire in France.
His consort Princess Louise-Hippolyte of Monaco was buried at Monaco Cathedral.

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1733-1793: HONORIUS III (Honoré III)
Born in 1720 in Paris.
Father: Prince James I of Monaco. Mother: Princess Louise-Hippolyte of Monaco.
Married in 1757 in Monaco Catherine de Brignole-Sale (*1737 Genoa,+1813 Wimbledon, England). Divorced in 1770.
His issue who reigned: HONORIUS IV (*1758,+1819).
Deposed by the French in 1793 and imprisoned in Paris.
Died in 1795 in Paris.
His consort Princess Marie Catherine was buried at the Chapel of St Louis in Wimbledon, now Greater London.


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FRENCH OCCUPATION 1793-1814

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1814-1819: HONORIUS IV (Honoré IV)
Born in 1758 in Monaco.
Father: Prince Honorius III of Monaco. Mother: Princess Catherine of Monaco.
Married in 1777 in Paris Duchess Louise d'Aumont-Mazarin (*1759 Paris,+1826 Paris). Divorced in 1793.
His issue who reigned:
-HONORIUS V (*1778,+1841),
-FLORESTAN I (*1785,+1856).
Died in 1819 in Paris.
Buried with his consort Princess Louise in Monaco Cathedral.

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1819-1841: HONORIUS V (Honoré V)
Born in 1778 in Paris.
Father: Prince Honorius IV of Monaco. Mother: Princess Louise of Monaco.
Unmarried.
Died in 1841 in Paris.
Buried in Monaco Cathedral.

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1841-1856: FLORESTAN I
Born in 1785 in Paris.
Father: Prince Honorius IV of Monaco. Mother: Princess Louise of Monaco.
Married in 1816 at Commercy Caroline Gibert de Lametz (*1793 Coulommiers,+1879 Monaco).
His issue who reigned: CHARLES III (*1856,+1889).
Died in 1856 in Paris.
Buried with his consort Princess Marie Louise Caroline in Monaco Cathedral.

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1856-1889: CHARLES III
Born in 1818 in Paris.
Father: Prince Florestan I of Monaco. Mother: Princess Marie Louise of Monaco.
Married in 1846 in Brussels Countess Antoinette de Mérode (*1828 Brussels,+1864 Monaco).
His issue who reigned: ALBERT I (*1870,+1922).
Died in 1889 at Marchais, France.
Buried with his consort Princess Antoinette in Monaco Cathedral.

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1889-1922: ALBERT I
Born in 1848 in Paris.
Father: Prince Charles III of Monaco. Mother: Princess Antoinette of Monaco.
Married firstly in 1869 at Marchais, France Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton (*1850 Lanarkshire, Scotland,+1922 Budapest). Divorced in 1880 in Monaco.
Married secondly in 1889 in Paris Marie Alice Heine (*1858 New Orleans,+1925 Paris).
His issue who reigned: LOUIS II (*1870,+1949; son of Mary).
Died in 1922 in Paris.
Buried in Monaco Cathedral.
His second consort Princess Marie Alice was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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1922-1949: LOUIS II
Born in 1870 in Baden-Baden.
Father: Prince Albert I of Monaco. Mother: Mary Douglas Hamilton.
Married in 1946 in Monaco Ghislaine Dommanget (*1900 Reims,+1991 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France).
Died in 1949 in Monaco.
Buried in Monaco Cathedral.
His consort Ghislaine was buried at the cemetery of Passy, Paris.



*Illegitimate child:

HSH Princesse Charlotte Louise Juliette Grimaldi de Monaco, Duchesse de Valentinois


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HSH Princesse Charlotte Louise Juliette Grimaldi de Monaco,
Duchesse de Valentinois
(Born as: Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet)


* Constantine, September 30th, 1898

† Paris, November 15th, 1977

(Mother: Marie Juliette Louvet, * Pierreval, May 19th, 1867 † Paris, November 11th, 1930)
Legitimated and created HSH Princesse de Monaco, Duchesse de Valentinois: May 16th, 1919


Heir Pressumptive to the Throne of Monaco, June 26th, 1922
(renounced her right of succession in favour of her son:
May 30th, 1944)



Married:

Monaco, March 19th, 1920:
Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior Comte de Polignac
Since March 18th, 1920:
HSH Prince Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior Grimaldi de Monaco,
Duc de Valentinois, Comte de Polignac
* Château de Kerscamp, October 24th, 1895
† Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, November 10th, 1964
Created HSH Prince de Monaco, Duc de Valentinois, March 18th, 1920
(Divorced: Paris, March 20th, 1930 and Monaco, February 18th, 1933)




Children from this marriage:


HSH Princesse Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne de Monaco

HSH Prince Souverain Rainier III Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand de Monaco


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1949-2005: RAINIER III
Born in 1923 in Monaco.
Father: Count Pierre de Polignac. Mother: Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
Married in 1956 in Monaco Grace Patricia Kelly (*1929 Philadelphia, USA,+1982 French-Monegasque frontier).
Issue of marriage: Caroline (*1957); ALBERT II (*1958); Stéphanie (*1965).
Died in 2005 in Monaco.
Buried with his consort Princess Grace in Monaco Cathedral.


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GRIMALDI



Albert II

Prince of Monaco
(Monaco, March 14, 1958).


 
Son of Prince Rainier III of Monaco (1923-2005) and Grace Kelly (1929-1982).

Succeeds his father Rainier III Prince of Monaco (1923-April 6th, 2005).

Inauguration: Monaco, July 12th, 2005.

Motto: Deo Juvante (With the help of God).

Religion: Roman Catholic.



Unmarried



Address:

Palais Grimaldi
2 Boulevard des Moulins
98015 Monte Carlo

Monaco




Titles:

The titles of the Prince of Monaco come under the French law.

According to this French law the titles are not hereditary in female line and are in fact already since
a long time legally lost for the family.

Seen legitimate Prince Rainier III should only have had the right to bear the title of his father: Count
de Polignac.

However the titles he and the Prince bear are

Prince of Monaco,
Duke of Valentinois, Estouteville, Mazarin, Mayenne,
Prince of Château-Porcien,
Marquis of Les Baux and of Chilly,
Count of Carladès, Torigni, Ferrette, Belfort, Longjumeau, Thann and Rosemont,
Baron of Le Buis, Altkirch, and Saint-Lô,
Lord of Saint-Rémy, Matignon and Isenheim.

The oldest son is titled Crown Prince and is Marquis of Les Baux.

Everyone who bears the name of Grimaldi by
birth, marriage or adoption is Prince(ss) of Monaco.

They are His/Her Serene Highness.

Succession: The throne of Monaco is hereditary with the right of the first-born.
Male heirs are in front of the female heirs.


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