Antoine Grimaldi
The admiral Antoine Grimaldi (+1358) is a patrician génois pertaining to the Maison Grimaldi, which will obtain sovereignty on Monaco.
With the head of this powerful family, Antoine and his cousin Charles (+1357, stem of the connects of Monaco) took the party of the Angevins for which they raised armed and fleets.
Following the internal conflicts in Genoa, the doge Simon Boccanegra pushed them with exiles. They launched out then in the acquisition of grounds and fields in the area of Nice and Monaco, where they continued their political activities and military.
The admiral Antoine Grimaldi accepted in 1353 the command of the fleet génoise against Venetian and Catalan ones, and was severely demolishes by a numerically higher enemy.
Antoine is the stem of the connects of Antibes, established in 1384 by his sons Luc and Marc.
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