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Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

1640 - 1709

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Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers VIL-ərz; 27 November [O.S. 17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland has received more than 928,968 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland is the 8,733rd most popular politician (up from 9,493rd in 2019), the 1,739th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,012th in 2019) and the 269th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 8,733 out of 19,576Before her are Leo I, Prince of Armenia, Antanas Merkys, Giovanni Spadolini, Manlio Brosio, Liu Yongfu, and Liu Penzi. After her are Giselbert of Luxembourg, Phraates I, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Simon I, Duke of Lorraine, Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark, and Owain Glyndŵr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 12Before her are Pu Songling, La Voisin, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Gaspar Sanz, Aphra Behn, and Antoine Coysevox. After her are Abraham Mignon, Philippe de La Hire, Mariana Alcoforado, Jacques Ozanam, Willem de Vlamingh, and Gerard de Lairesse. Among people deceased in 1709, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 14Before her are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, François de la Chaise, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, and George Rooke. After her are Dimitry of Rostov, Thomas Corneille, Abraham a Sancta Clara, Alvise II Mocenigo, Jean-François Regnard, and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 1,739 out of 8,785Before her are Edward Low (1690), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), William Cullen (1710), Terry Eagleton (1943), Gordon Ramsay (1966), and David Gill (1843). After her are Steven Runciman (1903), Anthony Quayle (1913), Margaret Scriven (1912), Owain Glyndŵr (1359), Philip Sidney (1554), and Geri Halliwell (1972).

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