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Barbara Villiers, 1. Duchess of Cleveland (* November 1640; † 9. Oktober 1709; verheiratete Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine) war neben Nell Gwyn die berühmteste der zahlreichen Mätressen des englischen Königs Karl II. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 2 Nachkommen. 3 Siehe auch. 4 Literatur. 5 Weblinks. 6 Einzelnachweise. Leben.
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers / ˈ v ɪ l ər z / 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 ...
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- William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison, Mary Bayning
- 9 October 1709 (aged 68), Chiswick Mall, England
Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (born autumn 1641, London, England—died October 9, 1709, Chiswick, Middlesex) was a favourite mistress of the English king Charles II; she bore several of his illegitimate children. According to the diarist Samuel Pepys, she was a woman of exceptional beauty, but others commented on her crude mannerisms.
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Charles began to tire of Barbara as her beauty faded and in one last gesture, made Barbara Duchess of Cleveland. He paid for lavish weddings for their children, an unpopular act which led the political diarist, John Evelyn to call Barbara ‘the curse of the nation’. By 1685 Charles was dead.
Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland. The favourite mistress of Charles II during the 1660s, Barbara Villiers was a dominant presence both at court and in the public's imagination. She married Roger Palmer, later the Earl of Castlemaine, in 1659, and met Charles soon after.
27. Nov. 2019 · Known alternately as 'the uncrowned queen' of Great Britain, or – as famous diarist John Evelyn termed her – 'the curse of the nation', Barbara Villiers remains one of the most divisive and fascinating women of the Restoration. Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Duchess of Cleveland. Peter Lely (1618–1680) UCL Culture.
Title: Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Duchess of Cleveland. Artist: Workshop of Sir Peter Lely (British, after 1670) Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 89 x 54 in. (226.1 x 137.2 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939. Accession Number: 39.65.9
