Jacob Kettler (German: Jakob von Kettler, Latvian: Hercogs Jēkabs Ketlers; 28 October 1610 – 1 January 1682) was a Baltic German Duke of the Duchy of Courland...

Frederick Casimir Kettler (German: Friedrich Casimir Kettler; 6 July 1650 – 22 January 1698) was Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1682 to 1698. Frederick...

After the death of his father, Jacob Kettler, in 1682, the duchy passed to Ferdinand's older brother, Frederick Casimir Kettler. Frederick was in the Polish...

emigrated due to conflicts with the nobility. Friedrich Kettler was born to Gotthard Kettler and his wife, Anna of Mecklenburg. The first of two sons...

August 1676), was a Duchess consort of Courland by marriage to Duke Jacob Kettler of Courland. She was born to George William, Elector of Brandenburg...

the dukes from the House of Kettler with the exception of Ernst Johann Biron and his son Peter von Biron. Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Livonian...

marriage to Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. She was a daughter of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Margravine Louise Charlotte of...

vassal of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at that time. Under Duke Jacob Kettler (ruled 1642-1682), a Baltic German, it established one of the largest...

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Semigallia portion. Born in Mitau in 1574, Wilhelm Kettler was the youngest son of Gotthard Kettler and his wife, Anna of Mecklenburg. After their father's...

red at the top, and right at the bottom. During the reign of duke Jacob Kettler, which lasted from 1642 to 1682, the naval ensign used by the ships...

from 1698 to 1711. Frederick Wilhelm was the son of Friedrich Kasimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg...

"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of...

and Marie Eleonore of Cleves. She was courted by Wilhelm Kettler, son of Gotthard Kettler of Courland and Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Their marriage...

shipping route. In the middle of the 17th century, Duke of Courland Jacob Kettler planned to dig a bypass to avoid the waterfall. Excavation started on...

Elector". Of his two daughters, the eldest, Louise Charlotte, married Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, and the younger, Hedwig Sophie, married William VI...

the ailing king was not interested, and Kettler decided to act on his own. The first colony founded by Jacob was the New Courland (Neu-Kurland) on the...

roads. In 1651 a small plot of land from the village was leased by Jacob Kettler, the Duke of Courland, from the king of Kombo, as part of the Couronian...

and 1618. In 1651, the settlers built a fort that they named Jacob Fort after Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, and used it as a trade base. Major Fock,...

became the foster mother of her brother-in-law's son Jacob Kettler. She actively worked for Jacob to be appointed the successor and heir to the Duchy,...

She had the following children: Anna Kettler (1567–1617); married in 1586 to Albrecht Radziwiłł. Friedrich Kettler (1569–1642); married in 1600 Elisabeth...

daughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and granddaughter of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland. They had two children.[citation needed] Monuments...

in Livonia was the need to deal with Courland. the Duke of Courland, Jacob Kettler, was an efficient entrepreneur who had managed to establish colonies...

William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel 12. Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland 6. Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland 13. Duchess Sophie of Prussia 3. Maria...

Kettler did the territory return to the Duchy. During the Livonian War, Libau was attacked and burnt by the Swedes. In 1625, Duke Friedrich Kettler of...

Scandinavia after the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, and Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents. The...

grandfather Carl von Bühren (died in 1674) had been a groom in the service of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, and had received a small estate from his master,...

of the Palatinate 1. Frederick I of Sweden 12. Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland 6. Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland 13. Duchess Sophie of Prussia 3. Maria...

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in what is now Latvia, having been bought by Prince Jacob Kettler. The colonies were formally ceded to England in 1664. During the late...

II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. Louise Elisabeth was a daughter of Duke Jacob of Courland (1610-1662) from his marriage to Charlotte Louise (1617-1676)...