Honoré III, Prince of Monaco

Honoré III
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Prince of Monaco
Reign	7 November 1733 – 19 January 1793
Predecessor	Jacques I
Successor	National Convention as de facto ruling government Honoré IV as next reigning monarch
Born	(1720-11-10)10 November 1720
Died
Spouse	Maria Caterina Brignole
Issue	Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco Joseph Grimaldi
Full name Honoré Camille Léonor Grimaldi de Goyon de Matignon
House	Grimaldi
Father	Jacques I, Prince of Monaco
Mother	Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco

Honoré III (10 November 1720 – 21 March 1795) ruled as Prince of Monaco and was Duke of Valentinois for almost sixty years from 1733 to 1793. Honoré was the son of Jacques I, Prince of Monaco and his wife, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco.

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Honore the first to the left with his siblings

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. Antoine Grimaldi, le Chevalier de Grimaldi, acted as regent for the prince between 1732 and 1784, when Honoré chose to reside in Paris. 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. 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, only daughter of Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife Maria Karolina Sobieska, grand daughter of John III Sobieski and an older sister of Maria Clementina Sobieski. The marriage never materialised and as such, 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 divorcing in 1770, and Marie-Catherine married the Prince de Condé in 1798.

Ancestry

Family 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               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

Preceded by Jacques I	Sovereign Prince of Monaco Duke of Valentinois 1733–1793	Succeeded by Honoré IV
	Hereditary Prince of Monaco Marquis of Baux 1732–1733