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    Ernst Johann von Biron (German: Ernst Johann von Biron; Russian: Эрнст Иоганн Бирон; 23 November [O.S. 13 November] 1690 – 29 December [O.S. 18 December] 1772)...
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    Duke Peter's younger brother. Karl von Bühren ∞ Catharina Hedwig von Raab genannt Thülen (1660-1740) Ernst Johann von Biron (1690–1772), duke of Courland...
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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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    "Eine große Kreuzträgerin". Peter von Biron (1724–1800) Hedwig Elizabeth von Biron (1727–1797) Karl Ernst (1728–1801) Biron, Benigna-Gottlieb //Russian Biographical...
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    to Saint Petersburg in order to inform Ernst Johann von Biron that he had been elected Duke of Courland. Biron was so pleased with the news that he had...
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    December 1918 – 22 March 1989), married Karl, Prince Biron von Kurland on 15 August 1938, with issue. Prince Wilhelm-Karl Adalbert Erich Detloff of Prussia...
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    William the penultimate Duke of Courland, managed to place her lover, Ernst Johann von Biron, on the Ducal throne of Courland. Empress Anna died only three years...
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    The empress also declared that her longtime lover and advisor, Ernst Johann von Biron, duke of Courland, would serve as regent until Ivan came of age...
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    favourite Ernest Biron, Duke of Courland, as regent. Biron, however, had made himself an object of detestation to the Russian people. After Biron threatened...
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    Alexander Bezborodko Aleksandr Bibikov Ernst Johann von Biron Peter von Biron Otto von Bismarck Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov Boris...
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    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 Order...
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    of Courland from 1711 to 1730. The penultimate duke of Courland, Ernst Johann von Biron (r. 1737–1740 and 1763–1769), expanded the cultural aspects of Mitau...
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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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  • 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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    Gustaw von Loewenwolde Pyotr Bestuzhev-Ryumin — before coronation Ernst Johann von Biron — official favourite Moritz Karl zu Lynar Julia von Mengden...
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    on 16 November 1766. Caroline and Peter were divorced in 1772. Bīrons Pēteris Ernsts, Kurzemes hercogs in: vesture.eu [retrieved 8 February 2016]. Waldeck...
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    politician Otto Wilhelm von Fersen, Swedish field marshal Ernst Johann von Biron, Duke of Courland and Semigallia Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field...
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    Hesterberg as Lia de Pau Emil Biron as Bildhauer Karl Platen as Beamter Eugen Rex as Herr aus der Provinz Hilde Arndt Ernst Pröckl as Herbert Parish p.245...
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    moved a strong detachment under the command of Gustav Biron (brother of Ernst Johann von Biron, a lover of Empress Anna of Russia) across the river. This...
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    youth, Ekaterina Andreyevna was a close friend of Anna Leopoldovna. Ernst Johann von Biron wanted to use Ekaterina's relationship with the Grand Duchess to...
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  • 25 February 1730, Anna, on the advice of her close counsellor, Ernst Johann von Biron, won the sympathies of the Leib Guard and tore up the terms of her...
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    of Poland traveled that route often. In 1734 it was acquired by Ernst Johann von Biron, whose descendants held Wartenberg even after the Prussian annexation...
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    Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1866–1890), who married Gustav Biron von Kirland in 1885. After the death of his first wife, Wilhelm married again...
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    sein Stiefbruder Senza cielo (1940) - Dr. Martin The Comedians (1941) - Ernst Biron, Count of Kurland Clarissa (1941) - Bankdirektor Feerenbach The Hero...
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    However, Empress Anna of Russia granted the Duchy to her favourite Ernst Johann von Biron. In 1747, the senior line of Hesse-Darmstadt tried to regain possession...
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    been accused of conspiring against Empress Anna of Russia's lover Ernst Johann von Biron. He was exiled to Okhotsk, the main Russian base on the Pacific...
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    commissioner, Peter von Biron, Duke of Kurland, one of the richest and most refined men of his time. Leading German artists of the time, like Karl Friedrich Schinkel...
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  • restoration 1769 husband abdication 5 November 1782 Ernst Johann von Biron Caroline of Waldeck and Pyrmont Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Waldeck-Pyrmont)...
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    during the 1812 war with Napoleon House of Biron, a Baltic German aristocratic family Ernst Johann von Biron, Regent of Russia in 1737–1740 House of Lieven...
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    Barbara von Oesterreich – Wikisource". de.wikisource.org (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2021-05-15. "BLKÖ:Habsburg, Karl II...
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