Simon Henry Adolph, Count of Lippe-Detmold

Count Simon Heinrich Adolf zur Lippe (* January 25, 1694, † October 12, 1734 ) was a ruler of the county of Lippe.

Origin

He was born the son of Count Friedrich Adolf and his wife Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau- Dillenburg. His five brothers and sisters died young, and of his seven stepbrothers and sisters reached only three sisters older ages: 1701-1754 Amalia, Abbess of pin Cappel in Lippstadt and monastery of St. Marien in Lemgo; Franziska 1704-1733, married to Friedrich Carl Graf von Bentheim- Steinfurt; and Friederike Adolfine 1711-1769, married to Friedrich Alexander, Count of Lippe -Detmold.

Life

His educational journey - the Grand Tour - led him in 1710 under the supervision of Lippe Oberhof Master at Utrecht University and to the courts of England and France. In 1715 he took part in the Turkish campaign of Prince Eugene in Hungary and in Belgrade and returned via Vienna back to Detmold, where he came to the throne in 1718.

Simon Heinrich Adolf became famous by the fact that in 1720 by Emperor Charles VI, he. should be elevated to the Imperial Prince, but this could not be executed because he could not afford necessary to do 4400 Reichstaler. Chronic shortage of money forced him in 1725, the indebted Dutch dominions Vianen and Ameide to sell and the Burg Sternberg 1733 to pledge to the electorate of Brunswick- Lüneburg.

Historians judge that he inferior to his father in splendor love about anything. Although he was in continual financial difficulties, each festival had to be equipped with a waste, as you disponer inexhaustible sources of money. The opinion of the best connoisseurs of Lippe history after two hundred years.

Quite different was the verdict of Lippstädter mayor Möller of 1784, the nachrühmte him that he had immediately begun to improve the state economy and the repayment of large debts that still stemmed in part from the Thirty Years' War, and in part by charitable generosity by befitting education and care for all family members were created. Not by taxes and oppression of the subjects, but by borrowing, through the sale of the Dutch dominions in 1725 and the pledge of Sternberg in 1733, he brought the whole state farm buildings back in order and led everywhere a wise economy. He related uncommon care to the welfare of his country, promoted vigorously religion, morality, justice and prosperity in all his subjects.

Progeny

On October 16, 1719, he married Johanna Wilhelmina, daughter of Prince Georg August of Nassau- Idstein. Four of her eleven children died young, and three daughters remained unmarried:

• Elisabeth Henriette Amalia (* Detmold February 10, 1721; † Brake January 19, 1793 ), Abbess of Cappel and pin Lemgo 1751
• Luise Friederike (* October 3, 1722 in Detmold, † November 3, 1777 in Brake )
• Karl August ( born November 3, 1723 in Detmold, † February 16, 1724 ibid )
• Henriette Auguste ( born March 26, 1725 in Detmold, † August 5, 1777 in Norburg ); ∞ June 19, 1745 Frederick of Schleswig -Holstein - Glücksburg ( * April 1, 1701; † November 27, 1766 )
• Karl Friedrich Simon ( born March 31, 1726 in Detmold, † February 18, 1727 ibid )
• Simon August, Count of Lippe -Detmold (* June 12, 1727 in Detmold, † May 1, 1782 ibid )
• Friedrich Adolf ( born August 30, 1728 in Detmold, † August 8, 1729 ibid )
• Charlotte Clementine, abbess ( born November 11, 1730 in Detmold, † May 18, 1804 at Castle Brake)
• Ludwig Heinrich Adolf ( born March 7, 1732 in Detmold, † August 31 1800 in Lemgo )

• Georg Emil ( born March 12, 1733 in Detmold, † July 8th, 1733 ibid )
• Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht August ( born January 11, 1735 in Detmold, † January 23, 1791 in Brake ) ∞ 1773 Wilhelmine von Trotha (* February 14, 1740, † February 26, 1793 )