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Honoré III
Prince of Monaco
Reign7 November 1733 – 19 January 1793
PredecessorJacques I
SuccessorNational Convention
as de facto ruling government
Honoré IV
as next reigning monarch
Born(1720-11-10)10 November 1720
Died21 March 1795(1795-03-21) (aged 74)
SpouseMaria Caterina Brignole
IssueHonoré IV, Prince of Monaco
Joseph Grimaldi
Names
Honoré Camille Léonor Grimaldi de Goyon de Matignon
HouseGrimaldi
FatherJacques I, Prince of Monaco
MotherLouise 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.

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 Sovereign Prince of Monaco
Duke of Valentinois
1733–1793 		Succeeded by
Hereditary Prince of Monaco
Marquis of Baux
1732–1733
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