Honoré III, Prince of Monaco

Honoré III
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Prince of Monaco
Reign	7 November 1733[1] – 19 January 1793
Predecessor	Jacques I
Successor	National Convention as de facto ruling government Honoré IV as next reigning monarch
Regent	Antoine Grimaldi (1733–1784)
Born	(1720-11-10)10 November 1720
Died	21 March 1795(1795-03-21) (aged 74)
Spouse	Maria Caterina Brignole ​ ​ (m. 1757; sep. 1770)​
Issue	Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco Prince Joseph
Names Honoré Camille Léonor Grimaldi
House	Grimaldi
Father	Jacques I, Prince of Monaco
Mother	Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco

Honoré III (Honoré Camille Léonor Grimaldi; 10 November 1720 – 21 March 1795) ruled as Prince of Monaco and was Duke of Valentinois from 1733 to 1793. Honoré was the son of Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, and her husband, Prince Jacques I.

Life

Honore the first to the left with his siblings

Honoré was born on 10 November 1720.

On 20 May 1732, he moved to Hôtel Matignon in Paris with his father and remained there, even after the proclamation in 1733 of him as Prince of Monaco after his father's abdication.^[2] Antoine Grimaldi, le Chevalier de Grimaldi, acted as regent for the prince between 1732 and 1784, when Honoré chose to reside in Paris or the Château des Matignon in Normandy. This situation remained the same for half a century until Antoine's death in 1784, when Honoré III was already 64 years old. Although he was open to the revolutionary ideas of the time, he was imprisoned on 20 September 1793.^[3] At his liberation a year later, he was ruined, and his property under seal.

Family

While in Paris, it was suggested that he marry Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne, but the marriage never materialised. In 1751, he married Maria Caterina Brignole (d. 1813).

The couple had two children; Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco and Joseph Grimaldi (10 September 1763 – 28 June 1816) before legally separating in 1770, and Marie-Catherine married her long-time companion Prince de Condé in 1798, after her husband's death.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Honoré III, Prince of Monaco

16. Charles Goyon de Matignon 8. François Goyon de Matignon (= 20) 17. Eleonor d'Orléans-Longueville 4. Jacques III Goyon de Matignon 18. Charles II Claude Malon, Lord of Bercy 9. Anne Malon de Bercy (= 21) 19. Catherine Habert de Montmort 2. Jacques Goyon de Matignon, Prince of Monaco 20. François Goyon de Matignon (= 8) 10. Henri Goyon de Matignon, Count of Thorigny 21. Anne Malon de Bercy (= 9) 5. Charlotte Goyon de Matignon, Countess of Thorigny 22. François Le Tellier, Baron de La Luthumière 11. Marie Francoise Le Tellier, Lady of Luthumière 23. Charlotte Crespin du Bec 1. Honoré Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco 24. Ercole Grimaldi, Marquis of Baux 12. Louis Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco 25. Maria Aurelia Spinola 6. Antonio Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco 26. Antoine de Gramont, Duke of Gramont 13. Catherine Charlotte de Gramont 27. Françoise Marguerite du Plessis de Chivré 3. Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi, Princess of Monaco 28. Henri of Lorraine, Count of Harcourt 14. Louis of Lorraine, Count of Armagnac 29. Marguerite Philippe du Cambout 7. Marie of Lorraine 30. Nicolas de Neufville, 1st Duke of Villeroy 15. Catherine de Neufville 31. Marie de Créquy, Dame de Mions

References

1. Edwards, Anne (1992). The Grimaldis of Monaco. Morrow. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-688-08837-8.
2. Klieger, P. Christiaan (2012-11-29). The Microstates of Europe: Designer Nations in a Post-Modern World. Lexington Books. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7391-7427-2.
3. Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1910. p. 362.

External links

• Official Website of the Princely Family of Monaco

Prince Honoré III House of Grimaldi Born: 10 November 1720 Died: 21 March 1795
Regnal titles
Preceded by Jacques I	Prince of Monaco 1733–1793	Succeeded by Honoré IV