1870 - 1949 (78 years)
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Name |
Louis Honor? Charles Antoine (Luis II, Prince of Monaco) Matignon-Grimaldi |
Birth |
12 Jul 1870 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
9 May 1949 |
Person ID |
I68360 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- An only child, he was the eleventh Sovereign Prince of Monaco and the eleventh Duke of Valentinois from 27 June 1922 until 9 May 1949.
Louis was raised in Germany by his mother and stepfather, Count -and later Prince- Tassilo Festetics von Tolna, along with his eldest half-sister, Maria-Mathilde (later grandmother of Ira von F?rstenberg), and did not see his father until age 11 when he was obliged to return to Monaco to be trained for his future royal duties.
A political crisis loomed for the Prince because without any other heir, the throne of Monaco would pass to his first cousin Wilhelm, the duke of Urach, a German nobleman who was a son of Prince Albert's aunt, Princess Florestine of Monaco. To ensure this did not happen, in 1911 a law was passed recognizing his bastard daughter, Charlotte, as Louis's acknowledged heir, and making her part of the sovereign family. This law was later held to be invalid under the 1882 statutes. Thus another law was passed in 1918 modifying the statutes to allow the adoption of an heir, with succession rights. Charlotte was formally adopted by Louis in 1919, and became Charlotte Louise Juliette Grimaldi, Princess of Monaco, and Duchess of Valentinois.
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