François Grimaldi says Malizia

François Grimaldi says the Crafty one (or Italian Malizia in ) Génois is the lord ancestor of the family Grimaldi which taken Monaco with the Génois by the trick in XIIIe century on January 8th 1297 and founded there its dynastic family of the Grimaldi so far there is more than 700 years

History

It is about a character become legendary with Monaco, regarded as the founder of the principality, and with which all the Monegasques are very grateful of his action which allows today the principality an advantageous autonomous statute in a geographical and tax paradise. Its memory is immortalisé on the blazon Monegasque of the Grimaldi of Monaco, by its representation as a monk who holds up the sword, like by a statue life size close to the enclosure to the Palais to Monaco

François Grimaldi, descendant of Otto Grooved Consul Genoa in 1133, was party of the Guelfes which supported the pope and which were severely beaten close to Genoa to or it is driven out in 1301

The January 8th 1297, it seizes the fortress Monégasque Génoise of the rock. Although having a small army, he disguises himself in monk franciscain asking asylum for the night to penetrate there, before opening the doors lasting during the night with his soldiers. From this episode come its nickname, Malizia (the crafty one), and them weapons of Monaco, two franciscains armed with a sword. It could not consolidate this conquest immediately. It was necessary to await his cousins Antoine Grimaldi (+ 1358 of the connects of Grimaldi d' Antibes) and Charles Ier Grimaldi (+ 1357 connects of Grimaldi of Monaco). One century later, the efforts of Lambert Grimaldi of Monaco (1425 - 1494) have made it possible the House of Grimaldi to become main sovereign final of the principality of Monaco for at least 700 years

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