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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. Life and reign. Peter was born in Jelgava ( German: Mitau) as the oldest son of Ernst Johann von Biron, future Duke of Courland, and his wife Benigna von Trotha.
Peter von Biron war Reichsgraf und ab 24. November 1769 Herzog von Kurland und Semgallen sowie ab 6. April 1786 Herzog von Sagan. 1792 erwarb er die große Herrschaft Nachod in Ostböhmen.
Pietro von Biron (in tedesco Peter von Biron; Mitau, 15 febbraio 1724 – Gellenau, 13 gennaio 1800) fu l'ultimo duca di Curlandia e Semigallia, dal 1769 al 1795 e duca di Sagan dal 1786
However, the dynasty was short lived and ended with Peter von Biron, who died in 1800 with no male heirs. Today, existing line of the family are descendants of Prince Karl Ernst, Duke Peter's younger brother.
Ernst Johann von Biron (German: Ernst Johann von Biron; Russian: Эрнст Иоганн Бирон; (German: Bühren); 23 November [O.S. 13 November] 1690 – 29 December [O.S. 18 December] 1772) was a Duke of Courland and Semigallia (1737–1740 and 1763–1769) and briefly regent of the Russian Empire in 1740.
It was ruled by the dukes from the House of Kettler with the exception of Ernst Johann Biron and his son Peter von Biron . Gotthard Kettler, [4] the last Master of the Livonian Order, became the first duke of Courland. Other members of the Order became the Couronian nobility, with the fiefdoms they had hitherto held becoming their estates.
Wilhelmine was born to Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland, and his third wife Anna Charlotte Dorothea von Medem (1761–1821).
