Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Talleyrand, and Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothée de Dino, was a Baltic German noblewoman. Her mother was Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland, and although her mother's husband, Duke Peter von Biron, acknowledged her as his own, her true father may have been the Polish statesman Aleksander Batowski. She was the long term companion of the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the uncle to her husband, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.
She resided, starting in 1843, at her castle at Sagan in Silesia, now known as Żagań, in Western Poland, located halfway between Cottbus and Wroclaw. She reigned over this immense and rich duchy alone until she had a carriage accident in June 1861 and died on September 19, 1862 at Sagan. She was buried in the Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross), with her sister Wilhelmine and son Napoléon Louis.
She resided, starting in 1843, at her castle at Sagan in Silesia, now known as Żagań, in Western Poland, located halfway between Cottbus and Wroclaw. She reigned over this immense and rich duchy alone until she had a carriage accident in June 1861 and died on September 19, 1862 at Sagan. She was buried in the Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross), with her sister Wilhelmine and son Napoléon Louis.
Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Talleyrand, and Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothée de Dino, was a Baltic German noblewoman. Her mother was Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland, and although her mother's husband, Duke Peter von Biron, acknowledged her as his own, her true father may have been the Polish statesman Aleksander Batowski. She was the long term companion of the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the uncle to her husband, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.
She resided, starting in 1843, at her castle at Sagan in Silesia, now known as Żagań, in Western Poland, located halfway between Cottbus and Wroclaw. She reigned over this immense and rich duchy alone until she had a carriage accident in June 1861 and died on September 19, 1862 at Sagan. She was buried in the Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross), with her sister Wilhelmine and son Napoléon Louis.
She resided, starting in 1843, at her castle at Sagan in Silesia, now known as Żagań, in Western Poland, located halfway between Cottbus and Wroclaw. She reigned over this immense and rich duchy alone until she had a carriage accident in June 1861 and died on September 19, 1862 at Sagan. She was buried in the Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross), with her sister Wilhelmine and son Napoléon Louis.
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