Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe

Bernhard VII of Lippe (* December 4, 1428, † April 2, 1511 ) was from 1429 to 1511 Sovereign of the reign lip. Due to many bloody feuds, in which he was involved, he was also called " Bellicosus " ( = the Warlike ).

Life

He was the first son of Simon IV of Lippe and Margaretha von Braunschweig- Grubenhagen. Since his father died, as no year was of age, he stood until 1446 was under guardianship administration of his uncle Otto, and then as part of his great-uncle, the Archbishop of Cologne Dietrich II of Moers, and the bailiff John of Möllenbeck established by it.

Bernhard graduated in 1444 with the Duke Adolf of Cleves - Mark an agreement under which he ceded this the hitherto pledged Lippstadt half. At the same time an alliance was established between the two houses, the Bernhard involved in the so-called Soest feud with the Archbishop of Cologne, Dietrich. The latter called 1447 a Bohemian army to help that devastated the Lippe country and the city Blomberg made ​​nearly equal to the ground, the cities and Lippstadt Soest but in vain besieged.

After the 1449 made ​​settlement of the dispute Bernhard lived first at the castle Blomberg. In 1468 he chose Detmold, then with about 350 inhabitants, the smallest of the Lippe cities to its permanent residence. At the subsequent reconstruction of the castle recalls, among other things an inscription in ancient castle tower of the Detmold castle with the year 1470th

Bernhard fought his feuds with changing opponents and allies. So he made in 1469 the Landgrave Ludwig II of Hesse assistance against his brother Henry III. , But the other hand was one of the main pillars of his brother Simon, the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn, erupted against Landgrave Ludwig II during 1464 because of the Castle Calenberg and up 1471 Hessen- lasting Paderbornischen feud.

His tomb and that of his wife is in the choir of the monastery church Blomberg, who remained until 1769 burial of Lippe noblemen.

Progeny

His marriage to Anna Countess of Holstein -looking castle (daughter of Otto II ), he had the following children:

  • Anna Lippe (* 1450 ), married to Otto VI. , Count of Hoya, then with John II, Count of Nassau- Beilstein
  • Margarethe of Lippe (* 1452 ), married to John I, Count of Rietberg
  • Elisabeth zur Lippe (* 1460 ), married to John II, Count of Spiegelberg, then I Rudolf VII of Diepholz
  • Ermengarda zur Lippe (* 1460, † August 24, 1524 ), married to Count Jobst I von Hoya ( 1466-1507 )
  • V. Simon of Lippe (* 1470 ), married to Walburga von Bronckhorst, then by Magdalene von Mansfeld Mittelort
  • Bernhard of Lippe

He also had (at least) twelve illegitimate children by three concubines:

Children with the first concubine NN:

  • Elizabeth of the lip
  • Johann von der Lippe

Children with the second concubine Ilse NN:

  • Petronella from the lip
  • Frederich (w) from the lip
  • Walburg from the lip
  • Bernhard von der Lippe
  • Anton von der Lippe
  • Simon from the lip
  • Vincenz von der Lippe
  • Bartold from the lip
  • Erich von der Lippe

Child with the third concubine NN Budde:

  • Niggehus from the lip
Simon IV, Lord of Lippe Principality of Grubenhagen Adolph I, Duke of Cleves Blomberg, North Rhine-Westphalia Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse Holstein-Pinneberg Jobst I, Count of Hoya Simon V, Count of Lippe House of Mansfeld Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Johann Heinrich Zedler Integrated Authority File
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