Princess Dorothea of Courland

Princess Dorothea
Duchess of Dino, Duchess of Talleyrand, Duchess of Sagan
Portrait by François Gérard
Born(1793-08-21)21 August 1793
Died19 September 1862(1862-09-19) (aged 69)
Spouse
(m. 1809; sep. 1818)
IssueNapoléon Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord
Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord
Alexandre Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord
Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord
FatherPeter von Biron (official)
Count Aleksander Batowski (biological)
MotherDorothea von Medem
ReligionCatholic,
prev. Lutheran

Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Duchess of Talleyrand and Duchess of Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothée de Dino (21 August 1793 – 19 September 1862), was a Baltic German noblewoman, and the ruling Duchess of Sagan between 1845 and 1862. Her mother was Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland, and although her mother's husband, Duke Peter von Biron, acknowledged her as his own, her true father may have been the Polish statesman Count Aleksander Batowski. For a long time, she accompanied the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord; she was the separated wife of his nephew, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.