Princess Dorothea of Courland

Who was Princess Dorothea of Courland?

Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Talleyrand and Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothé 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 might be Polish statesman Aleksander Batowski, thus making her half-Polish. For a long time, she accompanied the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, whereas she was the wife of his nephew, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.