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Antoinette de Merode
Princess consort of Monaco
Tenure1856–1864
Born(1828-09-28)28 September 1828
Brussels, United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Died10 February 1864(1864-02-10) (aged 35)
Paris, France
BurialCathedral of Our Lady Immaculate
SpouseCharles III, Prince of Monaco
IssueAlbert I, Prince of Monaco
Names
Antoinette Ghislaine de Merode
HouseMerode
FatherWerner de Merode
MotherVictoire de Spangen d'Uyternesse

Antoinette Ghislaine de Merode (28 September 1828 – 10 February 1864) was the Princess of Monaco by marriage to Charles III, Prince of Monaco.

Life

She was born in Brussels as the daughter of Count Werner de Merode (1797-1840) and his spouse, Countess Victoire de Spangen d'Uyternesse (1797–1845). She was the sister of Louise de Mérode and maternal aunt of Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, for three years Queen of Spain.

On her eighteenth birthday on 28 September 1846 in Brussels, she married Charles III, Prince of Monaco. It was a double wedding with her older sister, Louise.

Thanks to her generous dowry, Prince Charles III was able to finance the embellishment of Monte Carlo in order to attract wealthy tourists to the principality.

The couple was given an official welcome in Monaco after the wedding, but preferred to live in France, where Antoinette acquired for herself the Château de Marchais, where the couple preferred to live rather than in Monaco. On 13 November 1848, she gave birth in Paris to Albert I, Prince of Monaco. The marriage was described as a happy one, and Charles referred to her as an angel. Known by the title Duchess de Valentinois in Paris, she became a popular member of the high society life of Second French Empire.

She often attended the French Imperial court, where she was introduced to the Empress Eugenie by Princess Maria Caroline, her mother-in-law. She was present at French court during the state visit of Queen Victoria of Great Britain in 1855, during which she and her mother-in-law reportedly decided to arrange a marriage between her son Albert and a member of the British royal house, plans which eventually lead to the marriage between Albert and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton.

From 1856 until her death in 1864, she was the Princess consort of Monaco. During the reign of her spouse, she reportedly worked hard to support her husband, who progressed further in to blindness, and her aging mother-in-law, who also supported her son as his political adviser. In 1862, she was diagnosed with cancer, and was advised by the doctors not to leave her home in Marchais in France.

Antoinette de Merode died on 10 February 1864 in Paris (aged 35) and was interred in the Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate, Monaco.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Antoinette de Mérode
16. Jean Philippe, Count de Merode, Marquis van Westerloo
8. Philippe-Maximilien de Merode, Marquis van Westerloo
17. Princess Charlotte of Nassau-Hadamar
4. Guillaume-Charles, Count de Merode, Prince de Rubempré
18. Maximilian de Merode, Prince de Rubempré et d'Everberghe
9. Marie Catherine de Merode, Princess de Rubempré et d'Everberghe
19. Catherine Ockermans
2. Count Werner Jean-Baptiste de Merode
20. Antoine Henri d'Ongnies, Count de Coupigny
10. Othon-Henri d'Ongnies, Count de Mastaing, Prince van Grimberghen
21. Marie Josèphe de Jauche, Countess de Mastaing
5. Marie Joséphine d'Ongnies, Countess of Mastaing, Princess of Grimberghe
22. Joachim Maximilian Marie Joseph de Merode, Marquis de Deynze
11. Marie de Merode
23. Thérèse-Jeanne de Merode
1. Countess Antoinette Ghislaine de Merode
24. Jacques François van Spangen, Baron d'Uyternesse
12. Count Charles de Spangen d'Uyternesse
25. Thérèse Le Boeuf, Dame van Watervliet
6. Count François Louis de Spangen d'Uyternesse
26. Sebastien de Croix, Count de Clerfayt
13. Marie Anne de Croix dit de Drumez
27. Marie Le Duc d'Onezies et Hénin
3. Countess Victoire de Spangen d'Uyternesse
28. Jacques Philippe, Baron de Flaveau de Henry de la Raudière
14. Jacques Albert, Baron de Flaveau de Henry de la Raudière
29. Louise Martine de Godart, Dame d'Ermeton
7. Baroness Louise Xavière de Flaveau de Henry de la Raudière
30. Guillaume de Cassal, Seigneur de Ny
15. Ernestine Henriette de Cassal de Ny
31. Dieudonnée-Henriette-Michelle d'Ochain

Arms and emblems


Coat of arms of Antoinette de Mérode
as Princess of Monaco
Royal Monogram of Antoinette de Mérode
as Princess of Monaco

References

  1. Anne Edwards, The Grimaldis of Monaco, 1992
  2. Anne Edwards, The Grimaldis of Monaco, 1992
  3. Anne Edwards, The Grimaldis of Monaco, 1992
  4. Saige, Gustave (1897). Monaco: Ses Origines et Son Histoire. Imprimerie de Monaco. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  5. Anne Edwards, The Grimaldis of Monaco, 1992
  6. Anne Edwards, The Grimaldis of Monaco, 1992
  • Georges Martin, Histoire et généalogie de la maison de Mérode, Lyon, 1999.
Monegasque royalty
Preceded byMaria Caroline Gibert de Lametz Princess consort of Monaco
1856–1864 		VacantTitle next held byAlice Heine
Monegasque consorts
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