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Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania

1580 - 1649

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Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania (14 June 1580 – 23 February 1649), was a Duchess consort of Courland by marriage to Friedrich Kettler. Elisabeth Magdalena was the daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania and of Princess Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She married the Duke of Courland, Friedrich Kettler, on 14 March 1600. She participated in the politics of the Duchy as the adviser to her spouse during the difficult times when Courland was at war with Sweden and Poland and when there was unrest among the nobility in Courland against the ducal reign. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania is the 1,225th most popular nobleman (up from 1,234th in 2019), the 4,496th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,511th in 2019) and the 271st most popular German Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania ranks 1,225 out of 1,415Before her are Nyatri Tsenpo, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, Renauld I, Count of Nevers, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Prince George of Cambridge. After her are Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Princess Marie of Nassau, Eglon, Konrad II, Count of Württemberg, Erimena, and Yahya ibn Yahya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania ranks 23Before her are Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Pierre Vernier, Matei Basarab, Julius Schiller, Daniël Heinsius, and Carlo Contarini. After her are Thomas Middleton, Johann Faulhaber, Dirk Hartog, and Massasoit. Among people deceased in 1649, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania ranks 18Before her are Susanna Hall, Vincenzo Carafa, John Winthrop, Giulio Alenio, Jean de Brébeuf, and Juan Martínez Montañés. After her is Richard Crashaw.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania ranks 4,499 out of 7,253Before her are Karl Freiherr von Müffling (1775), Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901), Alexander Kanoldt (1881), August Spies (1855), and Josef Pieper (1904). After her are Franziskus von Bettinger (1850), Hans Schwartz (1913), Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684), Reinhold Münzenberg (1909), Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1745), and Theodor Blank (1905).

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