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{{Infobox royalty|prince
| name            = Ernst-Johann 
| title           = Prince Biron von Courland
| image           = 
| caption         = 
| spouse          = Countess Elisabeth Victoria Raimonda zu [[Isenburg-Philippseich|Ysenburg-Büdingen in Philippseich]] 
| issue           = Princess Anja<br />Princess Christiana
| full name       = {{lang-de|Ernst-Johann Karl Oskar Eitel-Friedrich Peter Burchard}}
| house           = [[House of Biron]] 
| father          = Karl, Prince Biron von Courland
| mother          = [[Princess Herzeleide of Prussia]]
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1940|8|6|df=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Berlin]], [[Nazi Germany]]
| death_date      = 
| death_place     = 
| place of burial = 
| religion = [[Protestant]]
}}
'''Ernst-Johann Karl Oskar Eitel-Friedrich Peter Burchard, Prince Biron von Courland''' (born 6 August 1940)<ref name="burke">[[Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd|Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh]] (editor). [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Guide to the Royal Family]], Burke's Peerage, London, 1973, pp. 300, 302. {{ISBN|978-0-220-66222-6}}</ref> is the senior male-line descendant of [[Ernst Johann von Biron]], and as such heir to the [[Duchy of Courland and Semigallia]].

He was born in [[Berlin]], the eldest son of Karl, Prince Biron of Courland (1907-1982), and [[Princess Herzeleide of Prussia]] (1918-1989), the daughter of [[Prince Oskar of Prussia]] (a son of Emperor [[William II, German Emperor|William II]]) and [[Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein]]. He was born in [[Berlin]] the eldest son of Karl, Prince Biron von Courland (1907–1982) and [[Princess Herzeleide of Prussia]] (1918–1989), the daughter of [[Prince Oskar of Prussia]], a son of Emperor [[William II, German Emperor|William II]].<ref name="burke" />

Prince Ernst-Johann succeeded his father as head of the Biron family following his death on 28 February 1982.  He is also a Knight of Justice (and, since 2008, an honorary commander in the Commandery of Silesia) of the [[Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)|''Johanniterorden'' ("Johannine Order")]], to which he was admitted in 1940 and whose grand master is his cousin [[Prince Oskar of Prussia (b. 1959)|Prince Oskar of Prussia]] (Prince Ernst-Johann's uncles and grandfather had headed the Order throughout most of the twentieth century).<ref>''Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der Balley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen Ordens St. Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem''; Berlin:  October, 2011; page 500.</ref>  He is in [[Succession to the British throne|line to the British throne]] through his descent from Queen Victoria's daughter, [[Victoria, Princess Royal]].

==Private life==
Prince Ernst-Johann was married to Countess Elisabeth zu [[Isenburg-Philippseich|Ysenburg-Büdingen in Philippseich]] (born 1941) in [[Munich]] in a civil ceremony on 14 August 1967, and in a religious one the next day.<ref name="burke" />

The couple have two adopted daughters:
*Anja Prinzessin Biron von Curland (born 25 January 1975).
*Christiana Prinzessin Biron von Curland (born 23 May 1977).

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Ernst-Johann, Prince Biron von Courland'''
|2= 2. Karl, Prince Biron von Courland 
|3= 3. [[Princess Herzeleide of Prussia]]
|4= 4. Gustav, Prince Biron von Courland
|5= 5. Françoise Lévisse de Montigny de Jaucourt 
|6= 6. [[Prince Oskar of Prussia]]
|7= 7. [[Countess Ina Marie von Bassewitz]]
|8= 8. Kalixt, Prince Biron von Courland 
|9= 9. Princess Helena Vassiljevna [[Meshchersky|Metscherskaïa]]
|10= 10. Count François Lévisse de Montigny de Jaucourt 
|11= 11. Victoria Louise Steiner 
|12= 12. [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]] 
|13= 13. [[Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein]]
|14= 14. Count Karl von Bassewitz-Levetzow
|15= 15. Countess Margarethe [[von der Schulenburg]]
|16= 16. Gustav Kalixt, Prince Biron von Courland 
|17= 17. Countess Franziska von Maltzahn
|18= 18. Prince Vassili Ivanovitsj [[Metschersky]]
|19= 19. Charlotte Wilhelmina van Vietinghoff-Schell
|20= 20. Louis Charles Lévisse, Marquis de Montigny de Jaucourt  
|21= 21. Henriette Françoise Mathieu de Faviers
|22= 22. Frederick Steiner
|23= 23. Emma N.
|24= 24. [[Frederick III, German Emperor]] 
|25= 25. [[Victoria, Princess Royal]]
|26= 26. [[Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]]
|27= 27. [[Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
|28= 28. Count Karl August Louis von Bassewitz
|29= 29. Ina von [[Bülow]]
|30= 30. Count Werner Ludwig von der Schulenburg
|31= 31. Baroness Marie von Maltzahn
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090430091007/http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/biron.html Online Gotha]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100210000618/http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/gotha/birongen.htm Chivalric Orders]
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{{s-bef|before=Karl, Prince Biron von Courland}}
{{s-tul|title=[[Duchy of Courland and Semigallia|Duke of Courland]]|years=1982- |reason=Duchy incorporated into [[Russian Empire]] in 1795}}
{{s-inc|heir=[[Prince Michael Biron of Courland]]}}
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{{s-bef|before=[[Princess Donata of Prussia]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Line of succession to the British Throne]]|creation=descended from [[Victoria, Princess Royal]],<br />daughter of [[Queen Victoria]]}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Prince Michael Biron of Courland]]}}
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