Simon IV, Lord of Lippe

Simon IV of Lippe (c. 1404; † August 11, 1429 ) was from 1415 to 1429 Sovereign of the reign lip.

Life

He was around 1404, the son of Bernard VI. zur Lippe and his second wife, Margarethe von Moers was born in 1415 and came to the government.

When in 1424 Count Adolf IX. Schaumburg tried to regain the already in 1400 pledged to the noblemen to the lip area of ​​County Sternberg with violence, was indeed the Extertal devastated in a bitter feud and destroyed in Bösingfeld church and castle, but succeeded Simon by appropriate counter-measures, the county Sternberg claim.

In Easter wood he had to build a hunting lodge with its moats, its main building in 1775 canceled.

Family

Simon was married ( to 1426) with Duchess Margaret of Brunswick (* 1411, † October 31, 1456 ), daughter of Duke Eric of Brunswick - Grubenhagen, and had with her two sons: Simon, later the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn, and Bernhard " bellicosus ", who became his successor.