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Hereditary Prince Jacques of Monaco, Marquis of Baux, Sept. 2023

Although he was born two minutes after his twin sister Princess Gabriella, Countess of Carladès, Hereditary Prince Jacques of Monaco, Marquis of Baux is first in the line of succession to the throne of Monaco because the succession to the throne is male-preference cognatic primogeniture – a female can succeed only if she has no living brothers and no deceased brothers who left surviving legitimate descendants.

Jacques’ father Prince Albert II of Monaco has the least royal pedigree of all the current European monarchs. His maternal great-grandparents were immigrants to the United States from Ireland and Germany. Prince Albert’s mother, the American actress Grace Kelly, can be considered “Hollywood royalty.” She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the drama The Country Girl (1954) with Bing Crosby. Among her other films were the western High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper, the romance-comedy-musical High Society (1956) with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, and three Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers: Dial M for Murder (1954) with Ray Milland, Rear Window (1954) with James Stewart, and To Catch a Thief (1955) with Cary Grant. Prince Albert’s maternal grandfather John B. Kelly Sr. won three Olympic gold medals for rowing.

Besides members of the princely family of Monaco, the only other royal that appears in Prince Albert’s last five generations is his great-great-great-grandmother Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, daughter of Karl I, Grand Duke of Baden and Stéphanie de Beauharnais. Princess Marie Amelie of Baden married William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton, the Premier Peer of Scotland, and their daughter Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton married Prince Albert I of Monaco. Princess Marie Amelie was a close friend and confidant of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French and his wife Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of the French.

Prince Jacques’ heritage, of course, continues the non-royal trend and extends it with the addition of the family of his mother Princess Charlene of Monaco. Born Charlene Lynette Wittstock in Rhodesia, the former name of the country of Zimbabwe, her family moved to South Africa when Charlene was ten years old. The Wittstock family is of German origin. In 1861, Charlene’s great-great-grandparents Martin Gottlieb Wittstock and his wife Johanne Luise Schönknecht emigrated to South Africa from the village of Zerrenthin in northern Germany to escape hardship. In 2014, Charlene was given a certificate that verified her Irish ancestry.

Parents, Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, Great-Great-Grandparents, and Great-Great-Great-Grandparents of Hereditary Prince Jacques of Monaco, Marquis of Baux (born December 10, 2014)

• Unofficial Royalty: Hereditary Prince Jacques, Marquis of Baux
• Unofficial Royalty: Principality of Monaco Index

The links below are from Unofficial Royalty,  Wikipedia, Leo’s Genealogics Website, The Peerage, or Find A Grave.

Parents

• Albert II, Prince of Monaco (born 1958)
• Charlene Lynette Wittstock (born 1978)

Grandparents

• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1923 – 2005)
• Grace Patricia Kelly (1929 – 1982)
• Michael Kenneth Wittstock (born 1946)
• Lynette Alice Humberstone (born 1959)

Great-Grandparents

• Count Pierre de Polignac (1895 – 1964)
• Princess Charlotte of Monaco (1898 – 1977)
• John B. Kelly Sr. (1889 – 1960)
• Margaret Katherine Majer (1898 – 1990)
• Dudley Wittstock (1918 – 1986)
• Sylvia Fagan Nicolson (1921 – 2015)
• Brian Humberstone (born 1931 – ?)
• Unknown mother of Lynette Alice Humberstone

Great-Great-Grandparents

• Count Maxence de Polignac (1857-1936)
• Susana Mariana de la Torre y Mier (1858-1913)
• Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870-1949)
• Marie Juliette Louvet (mistress of Louis II) (1830–1910)
• John Henry Kelly (1847-1897)
• Mary Anne Costello (1852-1926)
• Carl Majer (1863-1922)
• Margaretha Berg (1870-1949)
• Heinrich Karl Friedrich Wittstock (1887 – 1962)
• Olive Florence Caldwell (1888 – 1975)
• Henry Nicholson (1897 – 1960)
• Marjorie Winifred Nelson (? – 1975)
• Ernest Humberstone (1904 – ?)
• Lilian Paul (1905 – ?)
• Unknown grandfather of Lynette Alice Humberstone
• Unknown grandmother of Lynette Alice Humberstone

Great-Great-Great-Grandparents

• Count Charles de Polignac (1824 – 1881)
• Caroline Joséphine Le Normand de Morando (circa 1831- 1883)
• Isidoro Fernando de la Torre y Carsí (1816 – 1881)
• María Luisa de Mier y Celis (circa 1827 – ?)
• Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848 – 1922)
• Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton (1850 – 1922)
• Jacques Henri Louvet (1830 – 1910)
• Josephine Elvire Piedefer (1828 – 1871)
• Brian Kelly (1804 – 1889)
• Honora Margaret McLaughlin (circa 1821 – 1884)
• Walter Costello (1832 – 1910)
• Anne Burke (1833 – 1882)
• Johann Karl Majer (1837 – 1885)
• Luise Wilhelmine Adam (1837 – 1904)
• Georg Berg (1841 – 1908)
• Elisabetha Röhrig (1843 – 1886)
• Martin Gottlieb Wittstock (circa 1840 – 1915)
• Luise Schönknecht (1850 – 1932)
• William James Caldwell (? – 1929)
• Mary Ann Baker (1859 – 1931)
• Albert Nicolson (1862 – 1935)
• Sara Frances Barrett (1867 – 1935)
• Unknown father of Marjorie Winifred Nelson
• Unknown mother of Marjorie Winifred Nelson
• Unknown father of Ernest Humberstone
• Unknown mother of Ernest Humberstone
• Unknown father of Lilian Paul
• Unknown mother of Lilian Paul
• Unknown great-grandfather of Lynette Alice Humberstone
• Unknown great-grandmother of Lynette Alice Humberstone

Sources:

• Family Tree and Family History at Geni
• Leo’s Genealogics Website
• The Peerage
• Wikipedia

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