BIRON von KURLAND
The members of this family bear the title Prince[ss] Biron
von Curland [or Kurland/Courland]
(Serene Highness).
ERNST JOHANN von Biron, cr Reichsgraf 1733, became Duke
of Kurland (Courland) and Semgallen
1737, Regent and Prime Minister of Russia
1740 (Kalnzeem 23 Nov 1690-Mitau 29 Dec 1772); m.Mitau 25 Feb 1723
Benigna Gottlieb von Trotha gt Treyden (15 Oct 1703-Mitau 5 Nov 1782)
1a) PETER, Duke von Kurland 1772-95, Duke von Sagan 1786
(Mitau 15 Feb 1724-Schloß Gellenau 13 Jan 1800); m.1st
Arolsen 15 Oct 1765 (div 1772) Karoline Pss zu Waldeck u.Pyrmont (Arolsen 14
Aug 1748-Lausanne 18 Aug 1782); m.2nd Mitau 6 Mar 1774 (div 1778)
Pss Eudoxia Yusupova (Moscow 5/16 May
1743-St.Petersburg 19 Jul 1780); m.3rd Mitau 6 Nov 1779 Dorothea Gfn
von Medem (Mesothen, Courland
3 Feb 1761-Löbichau 20 Aug 1821)
1b) Katharina Friederike
WILHELMINE Benigne, Dss von
Sagan (Mitau 8 Feb 1781-Vienna 29 Nov 1839); m.1st Sagan 23 Jun 1800
(div 1805) Jules Armand Louis, Pr de Rohan-Guéméné
(Versailles 20 Oct 1781-Sichrow 13 Jan 1836); m.2nd Dresden 5 May
1805 (div 1806) Pr Vassili Trubetzkoi
(St.Petersburg 24 Mar 1776-St.Petersburg 10 Feb
1841); m.3rd Löbichau 8 Oct 1818 Carl
Rudolf Gf von der Schulenburg (Baumersrode 2 Jan 1788-Schloß
Sagan 4 Oct 1856)
2b) Marie Luise Pauline (Mitau
19 Feb 1782-Vienna 8 Jan 1845); m.Prague 26 Feb 1800 Friedrich Fst von
Hohenzollern-Hechingen (Namur 22 Jul 1776-Schloß Lindich
13 Sep 1838)
3b) Johanna
Catharine (Würzau, Courland
24 Jun 1783-Löbichau 11 Apr 1876); m.Dresden 18 Mar 1801 (div 1806) Francesco Pignatelli Duca di Acerenza
(13
Feb 1766-20 Dec 1827 [1840?])
4b) Peter (Würzau,
Courland 26 Jan 1787-Würzau 25 Mar 1790)
5b) Charlotte Friederike (26 Jan 1789-10 Mar 1791)
6b) Johanna Dorothea, Dss von
Sagan (Berlin 21 Aug 1793-Sagan 19 Sep 1862); m.Frankfurt am Main
[Aschaffenburg?]
21/22 Apr 1809 Edmund de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Dino, Duc de Talleyrand (Paris 1 Aug 1787-Florence
14 May 1872)
2a) Hedwig Elisabeth (Mitau 4 Jul 1727-Dorpat 31 Mar 1793); m.25 Nov 1759
Baron Aleksander Tscherkassov (d.Smolensk
1788)
3a) Carl Ernst, cr Prinz Biron von Curland
(11 Oct 1728-Königsberg
16 Oct 1801);
m.Dubno 18
Feb 1778 Apollonia Lodzia-Poninska
(Vresno 4 Feb 1760-St.Petersburg 24 Jul 1800)
1b) Benigna (30 Dec 1778-13 Aug 1779)
2b) Gustav Kalixt (29 Jan 1780-Bad Ems 20 Jun 1821); m.8 Sep 1806 Franziska
Gfn von Maltzahn (Dt.-Lissa 23 Sep 1790-Dyherrnfurth
25 Mar 1849)
1c) Louise (30 May 1808-Braunschweig 14 Aug 1845); m.Dyherrnfurth 30
May 1829 Alfred Gf von Hohenthal (5 Dec 1806-Döbernitz, Kr Delitzsch 16 Nov 1860)
2c) Laura Franziska Johanna
Antonia (15 Aug 1810-31 Jul 1811)
3c) Carl (13 Dec 1811-Breslau 21 Mar 1848); m.Oberkassel 26 Feb 1833 Agnes Gfn zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
(Köln 30 Apr 1810-Breslau 21 Apr 1884)
4c) Antoinette (17 Jan 1813-6 Jan 1882);
m.29 Oct 1834 Lasar Jakimovic
Frhr von Lasarev (d.26 Oct
1871)
5c) Franziska (Fanny) (Breslau
1 Apr 1815-Berlin 25 Dec 1888); m.25 Jun 1850 Hermann von Boyen (d.Jena 18
Feb 1886)
6c) Calixt (Schleise
bei Wartenberg 3 Jan
1817-Wartenberg 8 Mar 1882); m.Oscheikino 6 Aug 1845 Pss Jelena Mestscherskaja (St.Petersburg 14 Jan 1820-Wartenberg 7 Oct 1905)
1d) Gustav Peter Johannes
(Dresden 17 Oct 1859-Wartenberg 8 Jan 1941); m.1st Triefenstein 20
Jun 1885 Adele zu Pss Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (Kreuzwertheim 24 Mar 1866- Groß-Wartenberg 15 Oct 1890);
m.2nd Paris
29 Jul 1902
Françoise Levisse de Montigny
de Jaucourt (Paris 23 Dec 1874-Munich 6 Jul 1957)
1e) Karl Peter François Andreas
Alexander (Wartenberg 15 Jun 1907-Munich 28 Feb 1982); m.Potsdam (civ) 15 Aug
1938 (rel) 16
Aug 1938 Herzeleide Pss of Prussia
(Bristow 25 Dec 1918-Munich 22 Mar 1989)
1f) Viktoria Benigna Ina-Marie
Cecilie Friederike-Luise Helene (b.Schloß Wartenberg 2 Jul 1939); m.Munich (civ) 3 May
1968 (rel) 6
May 1968 (div 1993) Johann Frhr von Twickel (Berlin 25 Jul
1940-St.Johann, Tirol 17 Dec 2014)
2f) Ernst-Johann Karl Oskar
Eitel-Friedrich Peter Burchard (b.Berlin 6 Aug 1940); m.Munich (civ)
14 Aug 1967
(rel) 15 Aug 1967 Elisabeth Gfn zu Ysenburg- Philippseich (b.Rome 9 Dec 1941)
3f) Michael Karl August Wilhelm
(b.Groß Wartenberg 20 Jan 1944); m.Munich (civ) 1 Jul
1969 (rel) 2
Jul 1969 Kristin von Oertzen (b.Liessow
6 Nov 1944)
1g) Veronika (b.Munich 23 Jan 1970); m.7 Oct 2006
Christoph Carl
2g) Alexander (b.Munich 18 Sep 1972); m.Bernried 16
Aug 2003 (rel) 4
Oct 2003 Michaela Gfn Strachwitz v.Groß-Zauche
u.Camminetz (b.Starnberg 19 Mar 1979)
3g) Stephanie (b.Munich 24 Sep 1975); m.13 Sep 2008
Georg Güber
2e) Helene Elisabeth Martha
Wilhelmine Friederike (Wartenberg 2 Dec 1908-Paris 14 May 1950); m.New York
7 Mar 1950
Stephan Fournel de Beauvoir
du Rouvre (Alleyras 16 Mar
1918-St.Etienne/Loire 14 Jan 1995)
3e) Friedrich-Franz Christian
Wolf Calixt (Wartenberg 18 Apr 1910-Bonn-Bad Godesberg 15 Apr 1997); m.Puschine (civ) 19 Jul 1933 (rel) 20 Jul 1933 Maria-Irmgard
Gfn von Ballestrem (Breslau 28 Feb 1908-Bad Godesberg 5 Aug 1993)
1f) Franz Calixt Gustav
Friedrich Erdmann (Ober-Langendorf 5 Jul 1934-Leipzig
29 Mar 2024); m.(civ) Dabringhausen 18
Apr 1963 (rel) Bonn
20 Jul 1963
Gustava Bss von Brockdorff (Warsaw 31 Mar 1939-Brühl 28 Dec 2015)
1g) Isabella (Bonn 24 May
1965-Bonn 26 May 1965)
2g) Marcus Friedrich-Gustav
Nikolaus Ernst-Johann (b.Bonn 29
Nov 1967)
3g) Johannes (Bonn 9 Oct
1968-Bonn 14 Oct 1968)
4g) Calixta
Johanna Margarethe Viktoria Sophie Elisabeth (b.Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 31 Jan 1975); m.Weimar 27 May 2006 Christian Georg Fuchs
2f) Dorothea Franziska Maria-Klara
Auguste Irmgard Anna (b.Ober-Langendorf 27 Jul 1935); m.Dabringhausen (civ) 4 Apr 1961 (rel) 16 May 1961 Karl Michael
Frhr von Aretin (b.Vagen 23 May 1924)
3f) Friedrich-Carl Johannes
Detlev Franz (Ober-Langendorf 9 Mar 1938-12 Jun 2018); m.Munich (civ) 9 May
1969 (rel) 18
Jul 1969 Ingrid Farnsteiner (b.Köln 10
Jan 1938)
1g) Annina Franziska Beatrix
(b.Munich 6 Sep 1974);
m.1st St.Joseph,
Barbados 29 Dec 2000 Christian
Thierfelder (b.Tegernsee 8 Jun
1961); m.2nd Fabio Zoffi
4f) Irmgard Gustava Sophie
Helene Christiane Herzeleide Maria Anna (b.Breslau 18 Nov 1939); m.Munich 10 Sep 1977 Erich Reinhold
Baumann (b.Munich 9 Nov 1944)
5f) Gustav Johannes Thassilo
Silvius Leopold (b.Ober-Langendorf 29 Jan 1941); m.(civ) Feldafing
29 Aug 1968
(rel) Andechs 31 Aug 1968
Adelheid Greite (Berlin 14 Mar 1943-20 Jun 2022)
1g) Alexandra (b.Munich 26 May 1970)
2g) Franziska (b.Munich 8 Jan 1975); m.Martin Böhm
6f) Benedicta
Natalie Johanna (b.Meschede 26 Dec 1946); m.Dabringhausen
(civ) 4
Jun 1973 (rel) Altenburg
14 Jul 1973
(div 1983) Rudolf Konrad Gf von Montgelas Frhr von der Heydte (Egglkofen 10 Nov 1939-Mühldorf am Inn 17 Nov 2015)
4e) Ludwig Gustav (Wartenberg
11 Mar 1912-k.a.11 Apr 1941)
7c) Peter (12 Apr 1818-29 Apr 1852)
3b) Peter Alexis (21 Feb 1781-20 Apr 1809)
4b) Karoline (b.26 Jul 1782,
d.young)
5b) Adolf (1 Dec 1783-1789)
6b) Constance
(14 Mar 1787-1793)
7b) Luise (25 Jul 1791-8 Mar 1853);
m.23 Apr 1816 Joseph Gf Wielohursky (d.28 Aug 1826)
8b) Catharina (15 Sep 1792-31 Jan 1813);
m.1812 Joseph Gf Wielohursky (d.28 Apr 1826)