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An official portrait of Prince Rainier III and Hereditary Prince Albert , Prince ’ s Palace of Monaco , 2000
The Hôtel Matignon in Paris named after Prince of Monaco Jacques I ( Jacques François Léonor Goyon de Matignon Grimaldi ), now the official residence of the Prime Minister of France ing the Prince of Polignac . Monaco has kept the titles all the same — and not only that has extended them further . Prince Albert I gave his natural daughter Charlotte the title Madame de Valentinois and subsequently Duchesse de Valentinois . Prince Albert II gave daughter Gabriella the title Comtesse de Carladès and his son Jacques , Prince Héritier the title Marquis des Baux and who also has the title Seigneur de Saint-Rémy .
MATIGNON
If you wondered why Monaco ’ s Princes have Matignon among their titles it originates from Jacques Goyon de Matignon ( a French aristocrat and son of Count of Torigni ) who became Prince of Monaco via his marriage to Louise Hippolyte , daughter of Prince Antoine I . He lived in Paris from which the famous Hotel Matignon gets its name , official residence of the Prime Minister of France . He brought with him 5 titles : Seigneur de Matignon , Comte de Torigni , Baron de Saint Lô , Baron de Lathumière , Baron de Hambye . And he added a sixth title Count of Carladès for one of his children Charles . Later in 1643 the title Baron of Calvinet was also adopted by Monaco ’ s Princes . So Jacques Goyon ’ s son Honoré III , Prince of
Monaco carried these titles forward to his future Monegasque heirs .
THE CARDINAL MAZARIN CONNECTION
The powerful family in France headed by the formidable Cardinal Mazarin ( minister to Louis XIII and XIV ) put forward their representative Louise d ’ Aumont to marry Prince Honoré IV . Her numerous titles , twelve of them , thus were transferred to Honoré IV and to their children Honoré V and Florestan I .
12 “ Mazarin ” Titles from Louise d ’ Aumont : Duke of Mazarin ( from the Duchy of Ardennes ), Duke of Mayenne , Prince of Château Porcien ( in Champagne ), Comte of Belford , Comte of Ferrette , Comte de Thann , Comte de Rosemont , Baron d ’ Altkirch ( in Alsace ), Seigneur d ’ Issenheim ( in Alsace ), Marquis de Guiscard ( in l ’ Oise ), Marquis de Chilly , Comte de Longjumeau .
So there we have it 17 titles originally confirmed by the Treaty of Péronne , and 5 titles originating from Jacques Goyon de Matignon , and several others besides such as :
Duke of Estoutville which was created in 1537 by King Francis I of France for Adrienne d ’ Estouteville and her husband Francis de Bourbon .
Of course , the greatest of all these titles is Prince .
PRINCE ÉTRANGER
And just to underscore how much esteem the Prince of Monaco was held in in the French court .
In 1662 Honoré II died . The Duc de Valentinois succeeded his grandfather as Louis I Prince of Monaco . And it fell to Louis I to foster the relationship at the Court of Versailles with the Sun King Louis XIV . He would secure Monaco ’ s alliance with France and keep in the good graces of Louis XIV by pledging his son and heir Antoine Duc de Valentinois , to marry Marie of the Imperial House of Lorraine in 1688 , a match King Louis XIV himself arranged .
Prince Louis would die with yet another of his goals achieved — that of receiving the rare title ‘ Prince Étranger ’ to the Court of Versailles from his powerful friend King Louis XIV of France .
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