At Anna's coronation (May 19, 1730), he became grand chamberlain, a count of the Empire, on which occasion he is said to have adopted the arms of the French ducal house of Biron, and was presented with an
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In 1763 Catherine II of Russia re-established him in his duchy, which he bequeathed to his son Peter.
He conducted the negotiations leading to the incorporation of Courland, Semigalia, and other Biron possessions into the Russian Empire.
Following one obscure duel, in which he refused to take part and which resulted in his aide's killing Chevalier de Saxe, son of Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony and cousin of Louis XVI, Zubov withdrew to his Rastrelliesque Rundale Palace in Courland, formerly the seat of the Biron ducal dynasty.
Alec Head – Kilette (1950), Frere Georges (1953), Sheshoon (1960), Folkestone (1973)
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Ralph B. Strassburger – Berthe (1948), Montaval (1956), Rumesnil (1957)
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While Biron's troops were manoeuvring, the leading British infantry brigade had arrived, under the inexperienced but gifted John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll.
Buena Vista Marsh is located on fragmented lands south of the Village of Plover and the Wisconsin River, east of Biron, Wisconsin Rapids, and Kellner, north of State Road 73, Adams County, and Waushara County, and west of Bancroft and Interstate 39 / U.S. Highway 51.
Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1562, Saint-Blancard – 31 July 1602) was a French soldier whose military achievements were accompanied by plotting to dismember France and set himself up as ruler of an independent Burgundy.
Before the execution, the duchess of Biron had time to sell the castle to André Jean Simon of Nougarède, titled baron of Brusque and Fayet by the emperor Napoleon I.
In 2008, "On the Move", a documentary film directed by Avida Livny and produced by Gidi Avivi, Yael Biron and Dror Nahum, about Banai and the Refugees, participated in the official competition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, in EPOS -the international art & culture film festival in Israel and has been screened in cinemateques around Israel.
Prince Ernst-Johann Karl Oskar Eitel-Friedrich Peter Burchard Biron of Courland (born August 6, 1940) is the senior male-line descendant of Ernst Johann von Biron and as such heir to the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia.
Hedvig Elizabeth von Biron of Courland (1727–1797), was a princess of Courland and a Russian courtier, daughter of the Duke of Courland, Ernst Johann von Biron, and Benigna Gottlieb von Trotha gt Treyden, and the sister of Peter von Biron.
On September 29, 2012, Brandon Ore, an 18-year-old from Merrimack, told Manchester police officers that he'd seen child pornography on Biron's laptop computer.
Six marshals of France have been given the even more exalted rank of "marshal general of France" (maréchal général de France): Biron, Lesdiguières, Turenne, Villars, Saxe and Soult.