NOBLEMAN

Maria Amalia of Courland

1653 - 1711

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Princess Maria Amalia of Courland (Maria Anna Amalia Kettler; 12 June 1653 – 16 June 1711) was a Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel by her marriage to Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. She was a daughter of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg. Her eldest son was King Frederick I of Sweden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Amalia of Courland has received more than 74,892 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Amalia of Courland is the 556th most popular nobleman (up from 601st in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 49th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Maria Amalia of Courland ranks 556 out of 1,415. Before her are Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Joanna, Princess of Portugal, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg. After her are Otto I, Duke of Merania, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy, Rorik of Dorestad, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1653, Maria Amalia of Courland ranks 10. Before her are Prince George of Denmark, André-Hercule de Fleury, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Georg Muffat, and Chikamatsu Monzaemon. After her are Carlo Ruzzini, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Caspar van Wittel, Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg, Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg, and John Benbow. Among people deceased in 1711, Maria Amalia of Courland ranks 7. Before her are Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis, Grand Dauphin, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, and Louis-François de Boufflers. After her are Vladimir Atlasov, Joseph Vaz, Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Eusebio Kino, Gerard de Lairesse, and Élisabeth Sophie Chéron.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Maria Amalia of Courland ranks 45 out of 323. Before her are Viktors Arājs (1910), Friedrich Zander (1887), Friedrich Kettler (1569), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Solomon Mikhoels (1890), and Barbara von Krüdener (1764). After her are Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Aspazija (1865), Yevgeny Miller (1867), Eduard Totleben (1818), Juris Hartmanis (1928), and Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Latvia

Among noblemen born in Latvia, Maria Amalia of Courland ranks 2. Before her are Friedrich Kettler (1569). After her are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802).

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