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    Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Duchess of Talleyrand and Duchess of Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothée de Dino...
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    Peter von Biron (15 February 1724 – 13 January 1800) was the last duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1769 to 1795, when it was annexed by the Russian...
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    became Duchess of Courland. Popularly known as Dorothea of Courland after her marriage to Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland, she hosted an aristocratic...
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    Talleyrand (from 1898) was a famous French dandy, and the grandson of Dorothea von Biron. He was the son of Napoléon Louis, III. duc de Talleyrand-Périgord...
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    Princess Eudoxia Yusupova (1743-1780) ∞ Countess Dorothea Anna Charlotte von Medem (1761-1821) Wilhelmine von Biron (1781–1839), princess of Courland, duchess...
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    Princess Joanna of Courland (category House of Biron)
    Latvia) and a Duchess of Acerenza as the third daughter of Peter von Biron and Dorothea von Medem and the wife of Prince Francis Pignatelli Belmonte, Duke...
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    illegitimate daughter of Count Alexander Batowski and Dorothea von Medem though her mother's husband, Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland, who acknowledged...
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    second-eldest child and daughter of Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland and Semigallia, and his third wife Dorothea von Medem. [citation needed] Pauline...
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    illegitimate daughter of Count Alexander Batowski and Dorothea von Medem, though her mother's husband, Peter von Biron, 11th and last Duke of Courland, acknowledged...
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    Princess Herzeleide of Prussia (category House of Biron)
    von Bassewitz. She is the mother of Ernst-Johann Biron, Prince of Courland, the current head of the House of Biron. Countess Herzeleide-Ina-Marie von...
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  • Neo-Aleksandr I von Valdimiroff, was the child of Yevdokiya Yusupova and Peter von Biron and is only mentioned by the Dukes third wife Dorothea von Medem in...
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    of Vienna (1814–1815), Talleyrand entered into an arrangement with Dorothea von Biron, the wife of his nephew, the Duke of Dino. Shortly after, he separated...
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    Princess of Courland, Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen 1842–1862 Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, married Duke Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord...
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    Żagań). Wilhelmine was born to Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland, and his third wife Anna Charlotte Dorothea von Medem (1761–1821). She had three...
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  • who published the "Chroniques de 1831 à 1862" by her grandmother Dorothea von Biron (Plon, 4 volumes, 1909) Antoine de Castellane (1844–1917), father...
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    Duchess consort of Courland. She married the Duke of Courland, Peter von Biron, on March 6, 1774, in Mitau. She had no issue. Yevdokiya Yusupova was...
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    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 Order,...
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    1737, she arranged for the Duchy to be given to her lover, Ernst Johann von Biron instead. The Duchy was one of the smallest European nations to colonize...
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    Else of Prussia (25 December 1918 – 22 March 1989); married Karl, Prince Biron von Kurland on 15 August 1938, with issue. Prince Wilhelm Karl Adalbert Erich...
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    1786, the fief was purchased by Peter von Biron, Duke of Courland, and in 1843, it passed to his daughter Dorothea, the wife of Edmond de Talleyrand, a...
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    Bezborodko Aleksandr Bibikov Ernst Johann von Biron Peter von Biron Otto von Bismarck Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov Boris III of...
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    Pauline of Courland, the daughter of the last Duke of Courland, Peter von Biron. Constantine served as regent for his ill father, Frederick, beginning...
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    century. The first written mention of Klenica was in 1424. In 1787 Peter von Biron, last Duke of Courland, acquired the former Jesuit estate together with...
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  • Egon von Vietinghoff (1903–1994), painter and philosopher (Germany, Switzerland) Ernst Johann von Biron (1690–1772), Duke of Courland Peter von Biron (1724–1800)...
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  • Peter von Biron Yevdokiya Borisovna Yusupova Prince Boris Grigorievich Yusupov (Yusupov) 16 May 1743 6 March 1774 1778 divorce 19 July 1780 Dorothea von Medem...
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    Brunswick, Duke of Lauenburg and Prince of Celle. She was the mother of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, who was the wife of George I of Great Britain. Thus she was the...
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    marshal Ernst Johann von Biron, Duke of Courland and Semigallia Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, General and...
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    von Arco, madame Maximilian von Montgelas Odilon Barrot Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire Andrew Bell Wilhelmine von Biron von Kurland, Herzogin von...
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    Wilhelm of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1783–1847) and his wife, Dorothea Christine von Kahlden (1791–1860). Wilhelm received a humanistic education by...
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    manor house. His daughter's Dorothea von Medem's marriage to the Duke of Courland Peter von Biron in 1779 further elevated von Medems’ standing among the...
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