Philip I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
Count Philip I of Lippe - Alverdissen ( born July 18, 1601 Brake Castle in Lemgo, † April 10, 1681 in Hagen ) and from 1647, Count of Schaumburg -Lippe. He was the progenitor of the House of Schaumburg -Lippe.
Life
Philip I was the youngest son of Count Simon VI. of Lippe (1555-1613) and his second wife Countess Elisabeth von Holstein - Schaumburg.
After the death of his father he received in 1613 as appanage the offices Lipperode and Alverdissen. In 1640 he inherited from his sister, Countess Elisabeth von Holstein - Schaumburg (she was the mother of the last Count of Schaumburg, Otto V ) a part of the county with the Schaumburg offices Hagen, Biickeburg, Ahrensburg and Hagen castle. This territory led from now on the name of County of Schaumburg -Lippe.
Marriage and issue
In 1644 he married in the city of Hagen Countess Sophie of Hesse- Kassel, daughter of Landgrave Moritz of the scholars of Hesse-Kassel and his wife Juliana of Nassau- Dillenburg.
- Elisabeth ( * / † 1646)
- Sophie Eleonore (* 1648, † 1671) unmarried
- Johanna Dorothea (* 1649, † 1697 ) ∞ 1664 Count Hans Adolf of Bentheim -Tecklenburg (* September 22, 1637; † August 29, 1704 )
- Hedwig Louise (* 1650, † 1731) ∞ 1676 Duke Augustus of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Beck ( 1652-1689 )
- Wilhelm Bernhard ( * / † 1651)
- Philippine Elisabeth (* 1652, † 1703) ∞ 1680 Count Philip Christoph von Breuner († April 5, 1708 )
- Charlotte Juliana (* 1654, † 1684) ∞ 1676 Count Hans Heinrich von Kuefstein ( 1643-1687 )
- Friedrich Christian (* 1655, † 1728) ∞ 1691 Countess Johanna Sophia of Hohenlohe -Langenburg ∞ 1725 Maria Anna Victoria of Gall
- Karl Hermann ( * 1656, † 1657)
- Philipp Ernst ( * 1659, † 1723) ∞ 1686 Duchess Dorothea Amalia of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Beck ( 1656-1739 ) daughter of Philipp August