Jacques I, Prince of Monaco

Jacques I, full name Jacques François Léonor Goyon de Matignon ( born November 21, 1689 † April 23, 1751 ) reigned in the years 1731 to 1733 as Prince of Monaco.

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

Thus Jacques came from Norman nobility ( Matignon is located near Saint- Malo ), the Lords of Matignon, like the other French nobles also had to submit to the absolutist system of the Sun King Louis XIV. In this situation it worked out well for the men of Matignon, that at the opposite end of France Antonio I, Prince of Monaco, his Hereditary Princess Louise -Hippolyte wanted to marry. The 24 -year-old Jacques thus offered the prospect of domination of a sovereign principality, at the same time saw the French crown here an opportunity to expand its influence on Monaco which was still largely dependent on Spain in the 17th century.

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

  • Antoine- Charles, who died young
  • Honoré III. (1720-1795)
  • Charles (1722-1749)
  • François -Charles (1726-1743)
  • Charles -Maurice (1727-1790)

The couple stayed, while Antoine I. reigned in Monaco, in Paris, where Jacques Hôtel Matignon (now seat of the French Prime Minister ), the construction of which had been given in 1722 by the Maréchal de Montmorency with the architect Jean de Courtonne in order, from this commercially purchased and had named after his family.

On February 20, 1731, died Prince Antoine I., his daughter Louise Hippolyta traveled on April 4, 1731 in Monaco, where she took her inheritance and was received enthusiastically. Her husband, however, who succeeded was when the country stranger unpopular. Louise Hippolyte already died on 29 December of the same year of smallpox, after which Jacques was faced with heavy resistance among the population of Monaco, so he finally had to give in and in May 1732 his brother Antoine Grimaldi rule over left (the official abdication dated but only on November 7, 1733), while his son Honoré he himself retired to the court of Versailles and Paris in his palace, where he spent the last 18 years of his life.

  • House Grimaldi
  • Prince (Monaco)
  • Born in 1689
  • Died in 1751
  • Man
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