1 January 1682(1682-01-01) (aged 71) Mitau (Jelgava)
Burial
Ducal crypt in the Jelgava Palace
Spouse
Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg
Issue
Ladislaus Louis Frederick Kettler Frederick Casimir Kettler Charles Jacob Kettler Ferdinand Kettler Alexander Kettler Louise Elisabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg Christina Sophia Kettler Charlotte Sophia Kettler, Abbess of Herford Maria Amalia, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel
House
Kettler
Father
Wilhelm Kettler
Mother
Duchess Sophie of Prussia
Religion
Lutheranism
Jacob Kettler (German: Jakob von Kettler, Latvian: Hercogs Jēkabs Ketlers; 28 October 1610 – 1 January 1682) was a Baltic German Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1642–1682). Under his rule, Courland and Semigallia became more independent of its Polish suzerain, reached its peak in wealth, and even engaged in its own overseas colonization, making it one of the smallest, but fastest growing states in the world at that time.
Yet, in the end the results of his rule failed in the confrontation with much stronger powers both directly in the Baltic (Sweden) and overseas (Dutch Republic). A ruler "too rich and powerful to be a duke but too small and poor to be a king"[1] could not, with his small ancestral territory and very limited resources, play the powerful role he sought in European politics of that time.
^"The ambitious journey of Duke Jacob Kettler". History & Culture Academy of Latgale. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
JacobKettler (German: Jakob von Kettler, Latvian: Hercogs Jēkabs Ketlers; 28 October 1610 – 1 January 1682) was a Baltic German Duke of the Duchy of Courland...
Frederick Casimir Kettler (German: Friedrich Casimir Kettler; 6 July 1650 – 22 January 1698) was Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1682 to 1698. Frederick...
After the death of his father, JacobKettler, in 1682, the duchy passed to Ferdinand's older brother, Frederick Casimir Kettler. Frederick was in the Polish...
August 1676), was a Duchess consort of Courland by marriage to Duke JacobKettler of Courland. She was born to George William, Elector of Brandenburg...
the dukes from the House of Kettler with the exception of Ernst Johann Biron and his son Peter von Biron. Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Livonian...
marriage to Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. She was a daughter of JacobKettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Margravine Louise Charlotte of...
vassal of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at that time. Under Duke JacobKettler (ruled 1642-1682), a Baltic German, it established one of the largest...
emigrated due to conflicts with the nobility. Friedrich Kettler was born to Gotthard Kettler and his wife, Anna of Mecklenburg. The first of two sons...
Semigallia portion. Born in Mitau in 1574, Wilhelm Kettler was the youngest son of Gotthard Kettler and his wife, Anna of Mecklenburg. After their father's...
became the foster mother of her brother-in-law's son JacobKettler. She actively worked for Jacob to be appointed the successor and heir to the Duchy,...
and Marie Eleonore of Cleves. She was courted by Wilhelm Kettler, son of Gotthard Kettler of Courland and Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Their marriage...
"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of...
Semigallia were acquired by its third Duke and Gotthard's grandson JacobKettler. In his youth and during his studies abroad he was inspired by the wealth...
She had the following children: Anna Kettler (1567–1617); married in 1586 to Albrecht Radziwiłł. Friedrich Kettler (1569–1642); married in 1600 Elisabeth...
shipping route. In the middle of the 17th century, Duke of Courland JacobKettler planned to dig a bypass to avoid the waterfall. Excavation started on...
roads. In 1651 a small plot of land from the village was leased by JacobKettler, the Duke of Courland, from the king of Kombo, as part of the Couronian...
daughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and granddaughter of JacobKettler, Duke of Courland. They had two children.[citation needed] Monuments...
and 1618. In 1651, the settlers built a fort that they named Jacob Fort after JacobKettler, Duke of Courland, and used it as a trade base. Major Fock,...
Scandinavia after the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), with Christina of Sweden, JacobKettler of Courland, and Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents. The...
of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688) October 28 – JacobKettler, German noble (d. 1682) November 8 – Pietro Vidoni, Italian Catholic...
II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. Louise Elisabeth was a daughter of Duke Jacob of Courland (1610-1662) from his marriage to Charlotte Louise (1617-1676)...
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in what is now Latvia, having been bought by Prince JacobKettler. The colonies were formally ceded to England in 1664. During the late...
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