- 1819-1841: Prince of Monaco
- 1819-1841: Duke of Valentinois
Honore Gabriel Grimaldi was born 13 May 1778 in Monaco, Monaco to Honore IV of Monaco (1758-1819) and Louise Felicite Victorie d'Aumont (1759-1826) and died 2 October 1841 Paris, Seine, France of unspecified causes.
Biography
Honoré V was Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois. He was the first son of Honoré IV of Monaco and Louise d'Aumont.
House of Grimaldi
Great coat of arms of the House of Grimaldi.
The Grimaldi Family, with few exceptions for enemy occupations, have been primary rulers of Monaco since the 13th Century. Their family ancestry can be easily traced to many of the great noble families of Europe. See Also:
Regent
Illnesses resulting from his imprisonment incapacitated Honoré IV in his later years, and following the re-establishment of the Principality in 1814, a regency was established to rule in Honoré's name. This regency was directed, first, by his brother Joseph Grimaldi, then from 1815 by his son, the Hereditary Prince Honoré, who succeeded him in 1819 as Sovereign Prince Honoré V.[1]
Reign
A professor of the period, Victor de la Canorgue, wrote of Prince Honoré in negative terms: extravagant and fond of luxuries for himself, but miserly for others, even his own family, to whom he gave "pensions disproportionate to his means."[2] This professor endeavored to collect accounts of the reigns of Honoré V and of his brother and successor, Prince Florestan, and to translate them from Italian to French, for the purpose of better understanding the causes of the ever-increasing anti-monarchist movements, especially in former parts of the Principality like Menton and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. One ordinance, dated from 1815, suggested that Prince Honoré V was not only miserly but greedy, that he brought even "the benches of the parish church, which some persons had built at their own expense",[2] under his control, for his own profit.
Gustave Saige described him as a loner who did not trust anyone, including his brother, to help him govern. He was invisible to the public.[3] His focus was on the crippled economy of Monaco; he raised taxes and tried to restore the tobacco plant his grandfather Honoré III had founded but which had been closed by the government of Turin.[4] He endeavored to open factories and initiate citrus farm cooperatives in order put people to work, generate production, and alleviate poverty. However, none of his efforts raised his popularity, as his measures were seen by the people as autocratic.[4]
Child and succession
Honoré V never married. He had a son, with his mistress Félicite de Gamaches (c1780-), Louis Gabriel Oscar Grimaldi, born in Paris on 9 June 1814 and died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 15 July 1894.[5][6][7] Honoré's son was legitimized,[7] but the throne nevertheless passed to Honoré's brother, Florestan.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Louis Gabriel Oscar Grimaldi (1814-1894) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Honore V of Monaco (1778-1841) | 13 May 1778 Monaco, Monaco | 2 October 1841 Paris, Seine, France | Félicite de Gamaches (c1780-) |
| Florestan of Monaco (1785-1856) | 10 October 1785 Paris, Seine, France | 20 June 1856 Paris, Ile-de-France, France | Marie Caroline Gibert de Lametz (1793-1879) |
Residences
See Also
- Honore Grimaldi
- Grimaldi Family
- Grimaldi in Monaco
- Grimaldi in France
External Links
- wikipedia:en:Honoré V, Prince of Monaco
- Honoré V, Prince of Monaco at thePeerage
- Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Honor%C3%A9-V-Grimaldi-Prince-de-M%C3%B3naco/5294690101060075713, retrieved 01 May 2023
Royal Succession Charts
| Preceded by Honoré IV |
Prince of Monaco Duke of Valentinois 1819–1841 |
Succeeded by Florestan |
| Hereditary Prince of Monaco Marquis of Baux 1814–1819 |
References
- ^ de la Canorgue, Victor (1851). Les règnes d'Honoré V et de Florestan I, princes de Monaco (Digital ed.). University of Lausanne. https://books.google.com/books?id=FrxDAAAAcAAJ. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ^ a b De la Canorgue, Victor (1851). Les règnes d'Honoré V et de Florestan I, princes de Monaco. University of Lausanne. https://books.google.com/books?id=FrxDAAAAcAAJ&q=prince+Honoré+de+Monaco. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ^ Saige, Gustave (1897). Monaco: Ses Origines et Son Histoire. New York Public Library: Imprimerie de Monaco. https://archive.org/details/monaco00saiggoog. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ a b "GRIMALDI FAMILY: LEGACY OF PRINCE HONORÉ V". Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170704083215/https://www.hellomonaco.com/officially-2/grimaldi-family/grimaldi-family-the-legacy-of-prince-honore-v/. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ "Fontaine-Française : des pages d'histoire". http://www.bienpublic.com/region-dijonnaise/2013/08/25/fontaine-francaise-des-pages-d-histoire. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ Brégeon, Jean-Joël (1991). Les Grimaldi de Monaco: L'Histoire en tête. Monaco: Critérion. ISBN 9782741300687.
- ^ a b Edwards, Anne (1992). The Grimaldis of Monaco. Morrow. ISBN 9780688088378.