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unusual facts about Baltic nobility


Baltic nobility

This nobility was a source of officers and other servants to Swedish and Polish kings in 16th and particularly 17th centuries, when Couronian, Estonian, Livonian and Oeselian lands belonged to them.


Dorothea von Medem

(Anna Charlotte) Dorothea von Medem (3 February 1761 – 20 August 1821) was born a Gräfin (Countess) of the noble German Baltic Medem family and later became Duchess of Courland (a Baltic region).


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Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord

Though Edmond was indifferent about the match, she was from German-Baltic nobility, as the illegitimate daughter of Alexander Batowski and Dorothea von Medem (though her mother's husband Peter von Biron, last duke of Courland, acknowledged her as his own).