Jacques I. (Monaco)

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Prince Jacques I of Monaco

Jacques I , with full name Jacques François Léonor Goyon (* November 21, 1689 - April 23, 1751 ) ruled from 1731–1733 as Prince of Monaco .

Jacques was the son of Jacques III. Goyon de Matignon , Count of Thorigny and Count of Matignon, and his wife Charlotte Goyon, daughter of his brother.

Jacques thus came from the Norman nobility ( Matignon is not far from Saint-Malo ), whereby the lords of Matignon, like the other French nobles, had to submit to the absolutist system of the Sun King Louis XIV. In this situation it was a good thing for the Lords of Matignon that at the opposite end of France Antoine I , the prince of Monaco, wanted to marry his hereditary princess Louise-Hippolyte . The 24-year-old Jacques thus had the prospect of rule over a sovereign principality, at the same time the French crown saw an opportunity here to expand their own influence on Monaco, which in the 17th century had been largely dependent on Spain.

Jacques married the Monegasque Hereditary Princess Louise-Hippolyte on October 20, 1715, a good 7 weeks after the death of Louis XIV , whose great-grandson, the 5-year-old Louis XV. , followed on the throne, whose first official act was the co-signing of the marriage contract between Jacques and Louise Hippolyta. Jacques and Louise had a total of nine children:

children

  1. Antoine Charles Marie Grimaldi (1717–1718), Margrave of Baux and Count of Matignon.
  2. Charlotte Thérèse Nathalie Grimaldi , Mademoiselle de Monaco (1719–1790), nun .
  3. Honoré Camille Léonor Grimaldi (1720–1795), Prince of Monaco .
  4. Charles Marie Auguste Grimaldi (1722–1749), Count of Carladés and Matignon.
  5. Jacques Grimaldi (1723)
  6. Louise Françoise Grimaldi (1724–1729), Mademoiselle des Baux .
  7. François Charles Grimaldi (1726–1743), Count of Thorigny.
  8. Charles Maurice Grimaldi (May 14, 1727 - January 18, 1798), Count of Valentinois; Married to Marie Christine de Rouvroy in 1749 .
  9. Marie Françoise Thérése Grimaldi (1728–1743), Mademoiselle d'Estouteville .

While Antoine I was reigning in Monaco, the couple stayed in Paris , where Jacques das Hôtel Matignon (now the seat of the French Prime Minister), the construction of which had been commissioned by the Maréchal of Montmorency from the architect Jean de Courtonne in 1722 bought this and had it named after his gender.

Prince Antoine I died on February 20, 1731, his daughter Louise Hippolyta traveled to Monaco on April 4, 1731, where she inherited her inheritance and was enthusiastically received. Her husband, on the other hand, who followed, was not very popular as a stranger. Louise Hippolyta died of smallpox on December 29 of the same year , whereupon Jacques was confronted with fierce resistance from the population of Monaco, so that he finally had to give in and in May 1732 left the rule to his brother-in-law Antoine Grimaldi (the official abdication is only dated on November 7, 1733), while he withdrew with his son Honoré to the Versailles court or to his Parisian palace, where he spent the last 18 years of his life.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louise-Hippolyte Grimaldi, princesse de Monaco. Accessed October 24, 2016.
predecessor Office successor
Louise Hippolyte Prince of Monaco
1731–1732 		Honoré III.
personal data
SURNAME Jacques I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacob I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Monaco
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1689
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1751