Simon Philip, Count of Lippe

Simon Philipp ( born 6 April 1632 in Detmold, † June 19, 1650 in Florence) to the lip was from 1636 to 1650 Sovereign of the county lip.

Life

He was the eldest son of Count Ludwig Simon of Lippe and his wife Catherine of Waldeck.

When his father died of smallpox in 1636, Simon Philip and his brothers were still in infancy. Countess Katharina sought legal custody of their sons, but because she herself was still a minor at 24 years old, her father, Count Christian von Waldeck, should be used as a guardian. But as reported Johann Bernhard, brother of the late Earl, to the guardianship of his nephew and the regency in the country.

Fearing for the lives of their sons to Countess Catherine sat with the Hesse-Darmstadt urban troops, who were at the time just in Lemgo and Rinteln, in conjunction, and in 1638 hijacked a Hessian captain the young princes and brought them to Lemgo and Hamelin ( " Prince of prey "). Later, they were placed in the care of the Landgrave George II of Hesse- Darmstadt to Marburg; George's paternal grandmother was a sister of Simon VI. of lip.

To protect against the war events, the princes were brought to safety in 1645 after casting. There, however, decreased by smallpox, followed in 1646 the younger brothers of Simon Philipp died. Then let his mother, Catherine - she had married Philipp Ludwig von Holstein - Wiesenburg and was now Duchess of Holstein - her son in 1647 " kidnap " a second time. Detours returned Count Philipp Simon returned to Detmold. Here he became engaged to the 7 -year-old Countess Elisabeth Charlotte of Holzappel.

From 1649 Philipp Simon traveled to Paris, Grenoble, Rome, Milan and Florence. In Florence he contracted smallpox and died in 1650 in it. Since he died without issue, was his uncle, Johann Bernhard, rightful ruler of the county of Lippe.

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• Graf ( lip )
• House Lippe ( Lippe-Detmold line )
• German
• Born in 1632
• Died in 1650
• Man