LIST OF MONEGASQUE SOVEREIGNS

SINCE 1604

 

LORDSHIP OF MONACO TO 1612:

HOUSE OF GRIMALDI

1604-1612: HONORIUS II (Honoré II; Prince from 1612)

 

PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO 1612-1793:

HOUSE OF GRIMALDI

1612-1662: HONORIUS II (Honoré II)

Born in 1597 in Monaco.

Father: Lord Hercules I of Monaco. Mother: Lady Maria di Landi.

Married in 1616 in Milan Countess HIPPOLYTE Trivulzio (*1600,+1638).

Died in 1662 in Monaco.

Buried with his consort Princess Hippolyte in Monaco Cathedral.

 

 

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 (demolished).

 

 

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 of Lorraine in Monaco Cathedral.

 

 

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 Torigni,+1751 Paris; later James I of Monaco).

Her issue who reigned: HONORIUS III (*1720,+1795).

Died in 1731 in Monaco.

Buried in Monaco Cathedral.

Her consort Prince James I was buried in the Church of St Lawrence at Torigni-sur-Vire, France.

 

 

1731-1733: JAMES I (Jacques I)

Born in 1689 at Torigni, 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 the Church of St Lawrence at Torigni-sur-Vire, France (no tomb).

His consort Princess Louise-Hippolyte of Monaco was buried in Monaco Cathedral.

 

 

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. Burial place unknown.

His consort Princess Marie Catherine was buried in the Basilica of St Denis, France.

 

 

FRENCH OCCUPATION 1793-1814

 

 

PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO FROM 1814:

HOUSE OF GRIMALDI

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 Louise in Monaco Cathedral.

 

 

1819-1841: HONORIUS V (Honoré V)

Born in 1778 in Paris.

Father: Prince Honorius IV of Monaco. Mother: Louise d'Aumont-Mazarin.

Unmarried.

Died in 1841 in Paris.

Buried in Monaco Cathedral.

 

 

1841-1856: FLORESTAN I

Born in 1785 in Paris.

Father: Prince Honorius IV of Monaco. Mother: Louise d'Aumont-Mazarin.

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 Caroline in Monaco Cathedral.

 

 

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.

 

 

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 Hamilton (*1850 Hamilton Palace, 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 first consort Mary Hamilton was buried in the mausoleum built for her in the garden of the Festetics Palace, Keszthely, Hungary.

His second consort Princess Marie Alice was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

 

 

1922-1949: LOUIS II

Born in 1870 in Baden-Baden.

Father: Prince Albert I of Monaco. Mother: Princess Mary 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 Princess Ghislaine was buried in the cemetery of Passy, Paris.

 

 

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).

His issue who reigned: ALBERT II (*1958).

Died in 2005 in Monaco.

Buried with his consort Princess Grace in Monaco Cathedral.

 

 

From 2005: ALBERT II

Born in 1958 in Monaco.

Father: Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Mother: Princess Grace of Monaco.

Married in 2011 in Monaco CHARLENE Wittstock (*1978 Bulawayo, Rhodesia).

Issue of marriage: Gabriella Thérèse Marie and Jacques Honoré (*2014).

 

Select Bibliography

Album des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives des marines de guerre et de commerce, Paris 1889

Album des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives, Paris 1923

Burke's Royal Families of the World, vol. I: Europe and Latin America, London 1977

Flaggenbuch, Berlin 1905

Flags of Maritime Nations, Washington 1899

Herzog H. U., Flaggen und Wappen, Leipzig 1982

Kannik P., Alverdens flag i farver, København 1956

Le Gras M. A., Album des pavillons, guidons, flammes de toutes les puissances maritimes, Paris 1858

Pavillons des puissances maritimes en 1819, [Paris 1819?]