Caroline Gibert

Caroline Gibert of Lametz, was born with Coulommiers the July 18th 1793 and died the November 23rd 1879 with Monaco. Born in the Champagne upper middle class, it was the girl of the notary Charles-Thomas Gibert and Henriette Legras de Vaubercy.

Titulature

Miss Caroline Gibert

Grimaldi countess of Monaco (with its marriage)

Its Sérénissime Highness the princess of Monaco (with the death of the prince Honore V),

Its Sérénissime Highness the princess of Monaco, princess of Lametz (titrated by its husband, Florestan Ier)

Its Sérénissime Highness the princess Caroline of Monaco, princess dowager of Monaco (with the death of his/her husband, Florestan Ier)

Childhood

Caroline is registered at the registry office under the name of Gibert, name of her father. In 1798, his/her mother Henriette Legras, widow of Charles-Thomas Gibert, wife in 3rd weddings Antoine Rouyer which in 1803 buys a castle with Lametz. Caroline passes her childhood there.

Ennoblement and marriage

In May 1814, an adopted girl of prince de Monaco, therefore half-sister of the prince Florestan Ier of Monaco, wife with the castle of Lametz the son-in-law of Antoine Rouyer. Florestan meets Caroline and of éprend. In 1816, he marries it in the intimacy, because the family of Monaco is opposed to this marriage. Two children are born from this union, the prince Charles III and the princess Florestine

In 1841, the reigning prince, Honore V of Monaco, brother of Florestan, die without child. Florestan thus is pointed out and made prince Florestan I {{er}} of Monaco. To give a title to Caroline, until there commoner, Florestan creates her wife Princesse Caroline Gibert de Lametz, his/her children will thus carry the title of “prince de Monaco and Lametz”.

The princess visionary

By marrying the prince of Monaco, it became the wife of an involved in debt man, prince of a state which was it as much. Fine manager, the Caroline princess will allow the prince to restore his finances thanks to his talents as regards economy. She began again in particular and concluded the many lawsuits which had burdened fortune with his/her mother-in-law the princess Louise. Moreover, it directed the principality of an iron hand because her husband, undecided and little related to the policy, left him all the businesses of the State. It restores finances of the family thus but that of the principality slipped with the ruin. Thanks to the dowry of her daughter-in-law, the princess Antoinette, it had the idea to create a casino in Monaco. Fortune was immediate and during the many years which followed, the play was for the principality, the first source of revenue.

His/her son the prince Charles III inherited a prosperous State.

Caroline died in 86 years, 23 years after her husband.

External bonds

Monte Carlo birth of a myth

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