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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 840,958 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland is the 9,520th most popular politician (down from 9,460th in 2019), the 2,017th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,118th in 2019) and the 315th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 9,520 out of 15,577. Before her are Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, Alcetas, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Regina Jonas, Petro Shelest, and Bjarni Benediktsson. After her are Black Hawk, Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria, Lawrence Eagleburger, Nikephoros II Orsini, Nicomedes III of Bithynia, and Al-Musta'li.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 15. Before her are Gaspar Sanz, Aphra Behn, Philippe de La Hire, Antoine Coysevox, Abraham Mignon, and Mariana Alcoforado. After her are Willem de Vlamingh, Georg Mohr, Jacques Ozanam, Claude Fleury, Gerard de Lairesse, and Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester. Among people deceased in 1709, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 14. Before her are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, François de la Chaise, and Dimitry of Rostov. After her are Jean-François Regnard, Alvise II Mocenigo, Thomas Corneille, Abraham a Sancta Clara, George Rooke, 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 2,017 out of 7,765. Before her are Tony Brooks (1932), David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Jane Morris (1839), Ken Robinson (1950), Edward Colston (1636), and Elihu Thomson (1853). After her are Donald Crisp (1882), Eddie Irvine (1965), Hugh Dowding (1882), William Speirs Bruce (1867), Charlie Hunnam (1980), and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 315. Before her are Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Louisa Adams (1775), Caratacus (15), Mother Shipton (1488), Margaret of England (1240), and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773). After her are Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924), Frederick Abberline (1843), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), John Profumo (1915), Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777), and Charlie Whiting (1952).

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