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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. Barbara was the subject of many portraits, in particular by court painter Sir Peter Lely. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland is the 10,571st most popular politician (down from 8,732nd in 2019), the 2,370th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,739th in 2019) and the 368th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 10,571 out of 19,576. Before her are Huai of Xia, Andrew Bertie, Sakuma Shōzan, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Bajram Curri, and Tito Okello. After her are Björn at Haugi, Ariamnes of Cappadocia, Guo Zongxun, Thilo Sarrazin, João do Canto e Castro, and Alexander of Pherae.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 17. Before her are Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Yohannes I, Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Mignon, Jacques Ozanam, and Mariana Alcoforado. After her are Willem de Vlamingh, Georg Mohr, Gerard de Lairesse, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Claude Fleury, and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1709, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 15. Before her are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, François de la Chaise, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Jean-François Regnard, and Abraham a Sancta Clara. After her are Alvise II Mocenigo, George Rooke, Thomas Corneille, Dimitry of Rostov, Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Nicola Saggio.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 2,370 out of 8,785. Before her are Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901), Dudley Moore (1935), Princess Eugenie of York (1990), William T. Stearn (1911), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), and Andrew Bertie (1929). After her are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Henry Irving (1838), Frederick Copleston (1907), Richard Lydekker (1849), Alan Stacey (1933), and Prince William of Gloucester (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ranks 368. Before her are John Morley (1838), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), David Blunkett (1947), William Fox (1812), Ken Tyrrell (1924), and Andrew Bertie (1929). After her are Prince William of Gloucester (1941), Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Emma Darwin (1808), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Catherine Carey (1523), and Konstantinos Paspatis (1878).

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