Principality of Lippe

Principality of Lippe
*Fürstentum Lippe*
Principality of Lippe Fürstentum Lippe
1123–1918
	Flag Coat of arms
	The Principality of Lippe within the German Empire
Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire ; (1123–1806); State of the Confederation of the Rhine; (1806–1813); State of the German Confederation; (1815–1866); State of the North German Confederation; (1867–1871); Federated State of the German Empire; (1871–1918)
Capital	Detmold
Common languages	West Low German
Religion	Church of Lippe
Government	Principality
Prince
• 1789–1802	Leopold I (first)
• 1905–1918	Leopold IV (last)
History
• Established	1123
• Raised to County	1528
• Raised to Principality	1789
• German Revolution	12 November 1918
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Duchy of Saxony
Free State of Lippe

Terms of various things in Lippisch dialect compared to Standard German

Lippe (later Lippe-Detmold and then again Lippe) was a historical state in Germany, ruled by the House of Lippe. It was located between the Weser river and the southeast part of the Teutoburg Forest.

It was founded in the 1640s under a separate branch of the House of Lippe. In 1910 it had an area of 1215 Kmq and over 150,000 inhabitants.

History

The founder of what would become the County of Lippe (1528–1789), then the Principality of Lippe (1789–1918) was Bernhard I, who received a grant of territory from Lothair III in 1123. Bernhard I assumed the title of Edler Herr zu Lippe ("Noble Lord at Lippe"). The history of the dynasty and its further acquisitions of land really began with Bernard II. His territory was probably formed out of land he acquired on the destruction of the Duchy of Saxony following the demise of Henry the Lion in 1180. From 1196 to 1666 the descendants of Bernard II passed their holdings from father to sons for sixteen generations. Thereafter until 1905, a collateral branch passed Lippe from father to sons for eight generations. A distant relation then became the last ruler until the Revolution of 1918 when Lippe became the Free State of Lippe.^[1] Simon V was the first ruler of Lippe to style himself as a count (Graf) in 1528.^[2]

Following the death of Simon VI in 1613, the county was partitioned between his three sons; Lippe-Detmold went to Simon VII, Lippe-Brake to Otto and Lippe-Alverdissen went to Philip I. The county of Lippe-Brake was reunited with the main Detmold line in 1709. A son of Simon VII, Jobst Herman, founded another branch of the family, the Lippe-Biesterfeld line;^[2] the Lippe-Weissenfeld branch later separated from the Lippe-Biesterfelds. Both Lippe-Biesterfeld and Lippe-Weissenfeld were paragiums (non-sovereign estates of a cadet-branch) within the County of Lippe, and both branches, owning only modest manor houses in the county, acquired property in other states by marriage and moved out of the county in the late 18th century, the Biesterfeld branch to the Rhineland and the Weissenfeld branch to Saxony.

The Counts of Lippe-Detmold were granted the title of Imperial prince in 1789.^[2]

Shortly after becoming a member state of the German Empire in 1871, the Lippe-Detmold line died out on 20 July 1895. This resulted in an inheritance dispute between the neighbouring principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and the Lippe-Biesterfeld line. The dispute was resolved by the Imperial Court in Leipzig in 1905, with the lands passing to the Lippe-Biesterfeld line who, until this point, had no territorial sovereignty.^[2]

The Principality of Lippe came to an end on 12 November 1918 with the abdication of Leopold IV, with Lippe becoming a Free State. In 1947, Lippe merged into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The princely family still owns the estate and Fürstliches Residenzschloss [de] in Detmold.^[3]



Lippe and neighbouring states in the late 18th century	Lippe in 1918

Rulers of Lippe

House of Lippe

Partitions of Lippe under Lippe rule


County of Sternberg pleged by the Counts of Holstein (1400)
Lordship of Lippe (1123-1528) Lordship promoted to County of Lippe (1528-1613)
County of Lippe-Sternberg (1559-1583)

County of Schauenburg-Lippe (1613-1787) Lippe-Alverdissen line from 1777		County of Lippe-Detmold (1613-1782)		County of Lippe-Brake (1613-1709)
		County of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1627-1905)
		County of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1762-1916) County promoted to Principality of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1916-1918)
	County of Lippe-Alverdissen (1681-1777)

County promoted to Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe (1787-1918)			County promoted to Principality of Lippe (1782-1918) Lippe-Biesterfeld line from 1905

Table of rulers

Ruler	Born	Reign	Death	Ruling part	Consort	Notes
Bernard I	c.1090	1123-1158	1158	Lordship of Lippe	Unknown at least one child	First recorded lord of Lippe, and possible founder of the family.
Herman I	?	1158-1167	1167	Lordship of Lippe	Unknown at least two children	Grandson of the previous lord.
Bernard II	1140	1167-1196	1224	Lordship of Lippe	Heilwig of Are-Hochstaden (1150-1196) eleven children	Brother of the previous. Also Lord of Rheda. Abdicated to become an abbot at the Latvian monastery of Daugavgrīva. Eventually he was appointed Bishop at Sēlija in 1218.
Herman II	1175	1196-1229	25 December 1229	Lordship of Lippe	Oda of Tecklenburg (1180-5 April 1221) seven children	Less warlike than his predecessors.
Bernard III	1194	1229-1265	1265	Lordship of Lippe	Sophia of Cuijck-Arnsberg (1210-1245) c.1230 five children Sophie of Ravensberg-Vechta (1220-1285) 1248 four children
Bernard IV	c.1230	1265-1275	June 1275	Lordship of Lippe (at Horn)	Agnes of Clèves (1232-1 August 1285) 1260 two children	Sons of Bernard III, disputed the inheritance and briefly divided the lordship: Bernard kept Horn and the eastern part of the land; Herman received Lippstadt, Rheda and the western part.
Herman III	1233	1265-1274	3 October 1274	Lordship of Lippe (at Lippstadt)	Unmarried
Simon I	1261	1274/75-1344	3 August 1344	Lordship of Lippe	Adelaide of Waldeck 24 November 1276 eleven children	Reunited the lordship, but it would be once more divided between his children.
Simon II	c.1280/1300?	1334	1334	Lordship of Lippe	Unmarried	His situation is not very clear. Despite dying before his father, he is stated as co-ruling with his brothers below.
Bernard V	c.1290	1344-1364	1364	Lordship of Lippe (at Rheda)	Richardis of the Mark 16 October 1344 four children	Sons of Simon I, after the death of their brother Simon not long after their father, the surviving brothers briefly divided the lordship: Bernard kept Rheda and Otto received Lemgo, Rheda
Otto	1300	1344-1360	January 1360	Lordship of Lippe (at Lemgo)	Irmgard of the Mark (c.1300-1 August 1362) 4 March 1323 five children
Simon III	1340	1360/64-1410	1410	Lordship of Lippe	Irmgard of Hoya (1344-1422) 1362 ten children	Reunited the lands of Lippe once more.
Bernard VI	1363	1410-1415	19 January 1415	Lordship of Lippe	Margaret of Waldeck-Landau (1363-21 February 1395) 28 June 1393 no children Elisabeth of Mörs-Saarwerden 11 May 1403 four children
Simon IV	1404	1415-1429	11 August 1429	Lordship of Lippe	Margaret of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1411-31 October 1456) 1426 five children
Regencies of Otto of Lippe (1429-1433) and Dietrich II, Archbishop of Cologne (1433-1446)						Holds the record of the longest rule in history. Lord since he was less than one year old, he became known as having been involved in many feuds.
Bernard VII the Bellicose	4 December 1428	1429-1511	2 April 1511	Lordship of Lippe	Anna of Holstein-Pinneberg (1428-23 September 1495) 15 September 1443 seven children
Simon V	1471	1511-1536	17 September 1536	Lordship of Lippe (until 1528) County of Lippe (from 1528)	Walpurgis of Bronckhorst (d.21 December 1522) 27 March 1490 one child Magdalena of Mansfeld-Mittelort (c.1500-22 September 1540) 16 March 1524 Detmold four children	During his rule, the Lordship was elevated to a County.
Regencies of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (1536-1547), Jobst II, Count of Hoya (1536-1545) and Adolphus XIII, Count of Holstein-Pinneberg (1536-1544)						Sons of Simon V, both were minors by the time their father died. Bernard kept Lippe and Herman Simon received the feudal land of Sternberg. Herman Simon would become regent of his nephew, Simon VI.
Bernard VIII	6 December 1527	1536-1563	15 April 1563	County of Lippe	Catherine of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1524-1583) 1550 five children
Herman Simon	1532	1532-1576	4 June 1576	County of Lippe-Sternberg	Ursula of Spiegelberg-Pyrmont (1526-16 March 1583) 18 May 1558 Pyrmont two children
Regency of Herman Simon, Count of Lippe-Sternberg (1563-1576)						His marriage brought the county of Schaumburg (one of the last feuds of the counts of Holstein) into the family's domains. After Simon's death, the county entered into a more permanent division.
Simon VI	15 April 1554	1563-1613	7 December 1613	County of Lippe	Armgard, Countess of Rietberg 1578 no children Elisabeth of Holstein-Pinneberg 1585 ten children
Regency of Ursula of Spiegelberg-Pyrmont (1576-1578)						His early and childless death brought Sternberg once again under Lippe control.
Philip	5 October 1560	1576-1583	11 February 1583	County of Lippe-Sternberg	Unmarried
Annexation to Lippe
Simon VII	30 December 1587	1613-1627	26 March 1627	County of Lippe-Detmold	Anna Catharina of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (4 December 1590 - 6 January 1622) 6 May 1607 Brake twelve children Maria Magdalena of Waldeck-Wildungen (27 April 1606 - 28 May 1671) 27 April 1623 three children	Sons of Simon VI, divided the county once more. Simon kept his capital at Detmold; Otto received Brake, and Philip, Alverdissen. Following the annexation of the county of Schauenburg after the extinction of the House of Schauenburg in 1640 (the Lippes were heirs through the mother of the last count), Philip joined this new county to his inheritance.
Otto	21 September 1589	1613-1657	18 November 1657	County of Lippe-Brake	Margaret of Nassau-Dillenburg (5 September 1606 - 30 January 1661) 30 October 1626 Dillenburg twelve children
Philip I	18 July 1601	1613-1681	10 April 1681	County of Lippe-Alverdissen (until 1640) County of Schaumburg-Lippe (from 1640)	Sophie of Hesse-Kassel 13 October 1644 Stadthagen ten children
Regency of Christian, Count of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1627-1631)						Sons of Simon VII, and both minors. Simon Louis kept Detmold, under his step-grandfather, the Count of Waldeck-Pyrmont, and his half-brother received Biesterfeld, under his own mother's regency.
Simon Louis	14 March 1610	1627-1636	8 August 1636	County of Lippe-Detmold	Catherine of Waldeck-Wildungen (20 October 1612 - 24 November 1649) 19 June 1631 Wildungen three children
Regency of Maria Magdalena of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1627-1654)
Jobst Herman	9 February 1625	1627-1678	6 July 1678	Lordship of Lippe-Biesterfeld (at Schwalenberg until 1654; at Biesterfeld since 1654)	Juliane Elisabeth of Sayn-Wittgenstein (4 October 1634 - 23 June 1689) 10 October 1654 Wittgenstein twenty children
Regencies of Christian, Count of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1636-1637) and Catherine of Waldeck-Wildungen (1637-1650)						Died with no descendants. The county fell to his uncle.
Simon Philip	6 April 1632	1636-1650	19 June 1650	County of Lippe-Detmold	Unmarried	Died with no descendants. The county fell to his uncle.
John Bernard	18 October 1613	1650-1652	10 June 1652	County of Lippe-Detmold	Unmarried	Brother of Simon Louis, also had no descendants.
Herman Adolphus	31 January 1616	1652-1666	10 October 1666	County of Lippe-Detmold	Ernestina von Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein (9 February 1614 - 5 December 1665) 1648 four children Amalia of Lippe-Brake (20 September 1629 - 19 August 1676) 27 February 1666 no children	Brother of the previous.
Casimir	22 July 1627	1657-1692	12 March 1700	County of Lippe-Brake	Anna Amalia of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (6 December 1641 - 27 March 1685) 28 May 1663 Nymbrecht nine children	In 1692, he abdicated to his eldest son.
Simon Henry	13 March 1649	1666-1697	2 May 1697	County of Lippe-Detmold	Amalia of Dohna-Vianen (2 February 1644 - 11 March 1700) 15 December 1666 The Hague sixteen children
Regency of Juliane Elisabeth of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1678-1689)
Rudolph Ferdinand	17 March 1671	1678-1736	12 July 1736	Lordship of Lippe-Biesterfeld	Juliana Louisa von Kunowitz (21 August 1671 - 21 October 1741) 22 February 1705 Halle eight children
Frederick Christian	16 August 1655	1681-1728	13 June 1728	County of Schaumburg-Lippe	Joanna Sophia of Hohenlohe-Langenburg 4 January 1691 Langenburg (annulled 1723) six children	Sons of Philip I, divided their inheritance: Frederick Christian kept Schaumburg, and Philip Ernest received Alverdissen (the land of his father prior to the inheritance of the County of Schaumburg).
Philip Ernest I	20 December 1659	1681-1723	27 November 1723	County of Lippe-Alverdissen	Dorothea Amalia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck 31 December 1686 Beck seven children
Rudolph	10 May 1664	1692-1707	27 October 1707	County of Lippe-Brake	Dorothea Elisabeth of Waldeck-Wildungen (6 July 1661 - 23 July 1702) 4 November 1691 Kleinern one child	Left no surviving descendants. The county passed to his cousin.
Frederick Adolphus	2 September 1667	1697-1718	18 July 1718	County of Lippe-Detmold	Joanna Elizabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg-Schaumburg (5 September 1663 - 8 February 1700) 16 June 1692 Schaumburg six children Amalia of Solms-Hohensolms (13 October 1678 - 14 February 1746) 8 June 1700 Hohensolms seven children
Louis Ferdinand	27 September 1680	1707-1709	21 February 1709	County of Lippe-Brake	Unmarried	Son of Frederick, a younger brother of Casimir. After his childless death Brake reverted to Lippe.
Annexation to Lippe
Simon Henry Adolphus	15 April 1554	1718-1734	7 December 1613	County of Lippe-Detmold	Johanetta Wilhelmina of Nassau-Idstein (14 September 1700 - 2 June 1756)16 October 1719 Wiesbaden eleven children
Frederick Ernest	20 December 1694	1723-1749	28 August 1749	County of Lippe-Alverdissen	Elisabeth Philippine von Friesenhausen (19 August 1696 - 4 August 1764) 27 September 1722 Rebourg eleven children
Albert Wolfgang	27 April 1699	1728-1748	24 September 1648	County of Schaumburg-Lippe	Margarete Gertrud of Oeynhausen (9 April 1698 - 8 April 1726) 30 October 1721 London two children Charlotte Frederica of Nassau-Siegen (30 November 1702 - 22 July 1785) 26 April 1730 Varel no children
Regency of Johanetta Wilhelmina of Nassau-Idstein (1734-1747)
Simon Augustus	12 June 1727	1734-1782	1 May 1782	County of Lippe-Detmold	Polyxena Louise of Nassau-Weilburg (27 January 1733 - 27 September 1764) 24 August 1750 Kirchheimbolanden one child Maria Leopoldine of Anhalt-Dessau 28 September 1765 Dessau one child Casimire of Anhalt-Dessau 9 November 1769 Dessau one child Christine of Solms-Braunfels (30 August 1744 - 16 December 1823) 26 March 1780 Braunfels no children
Frederick Charles Augustus	20 January 1706	1736-1781	31 July 1781	Lordship of Lippe-Biesterfeld (until 1762) County of Lippe-Biesterfeld (until 1762)	Barbara Eleonora of Solms-Baruth (30 October 1707 - 16 June 1744) 7 May 1732 Baruth eight children	Sons of Rudolph Ferdinand. Frederick Charles ascended after his father's death, and, during his rule, the Lordship was elevated to a County. In this same year (1762), he gave Weissenfelf to his brother Ferdinand Louis.
Ferdinand I Louis	22 August 1709	1762-1787	18 January 1787	County of Lippe-Weissenfeld	Ernestine Henriette of Solms-Baruth (23 May 1712 - 17 November 1769) 2 November 1736 Baruth nine children
William	9 January 1724	1748-1777	10 September 1777	County of Schaumburg-Lippe	Maria Barbara Eleonore of Lippe-Biesterfeld 12 November 1765 Stadthagen two children	Left no surviving descendants. The county passed to his cousin from the Alverdissen line.
Philip II Ernest II	5 July 1720	1749-1777	13 February 1787	County of Lippe-Alverdissen	Ernestine Albertine of Saxe-Weimar 6 May 1756 Weimar four children Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal 10 October 1780 Philippsthal four children	After the death of the last male representative of the Schaumburg-Lippe line, he assumed the reins of this County, probably even merging his own with the recently acquired property.
Philip II Ernest II	5 July 1720	1777-1787	13 February 1787	County of Schaumburg-Lippe
Annexation to Schaumburg-Lippe
Charles Ernest Casimir	2 November 1735	1781-1810	19 November 1810	County of Lippe-Biesterfeld	Ferdinanda Henrietta Dorothea of Bentheim-Tecklenburg (24 August 1737 - 23 April 1779) 16 October 1769 Rheda five children
Regency of Louis Henry Adolph of Lippe-Detmold (1782-1789)						During his rule, the County was elevated to a Principality.
Leopold I	2 December 1767	1782-1802	4 April 1802	County of Lippe-Detmold (until 1789) Principality of Lippe (from 1789)	Pauline Christine of Anhalt-Bernburg 2 January 1796 Ballenstedt two children	During his rule, the County was elevated to a Principality.
Regency of Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal (1787-1820)						During his rule, the County was elevated to a Principality.
George William	20 December 1784	1787-1860	21 November 1860	County of Schaumburg-Lippe (until 1807) Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe (from 1807)	Ida of Waldeck-Pyrmont 23 June 1816 Arolsen nine children	During his rule, the County was elevated to a Principality.
Frederick John Louis	2 September 1737	1787-1791	14 May 1791	County of Lippe-Weissenfeld	Maria Eleonora von Gersdorf (1 September 1752 - 3 December 1772) 21 February 1772 Milkel one child Wilhelmina von Hoenthal (19 February 1748 - 8 December 1789) 28 August 1775 Debernitz five children
Ferdinand II	20 November 1772	1791-1846	21 June 1846	County of Lippe-Weissenfeld	Eleonora Gustava von Thermo (19 October 1789 - 23 February 1868) 23 November 1804 Lipten seven children
Regency of Pauline Christine of Anhalt-Bernburg (1802-1820)
Leopold II	6 November 1796	1802-1851	1 January 1851	Principality of Lippe	Emilia Frederica of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (23 April 1800 - 2 April 1867) 23 April 1820 Arnstadt nine children
William Ernest	15 April 1777	1810-1840	8 January 1840	County of Lippe-Biesterfeld	Dorothea Christina Modesta von Umru (29 April 1781 - 29 September 1854) 26 July 1803 Bayreuth nine children
Julius	2 April 1812	1840-1884	17 May 1884	County of Lippe-Biesterfeld	Adelaide Clotilda Augusta of Kastell-Kastell (18 June 1818 - 11 July 1900) 30 April 1839 Kastell fourteen children
Gustav	21 August 1805	1846-1882	17 June 1882	County of Lippe-Weissenfeld	Ida of Lippe-Weissenfeld (16 January 1819 - 18 March 1878) 21 August 1848 Niedergurig seven children
Leopold III	1 September 1821	1851-1875	8 December 1875	Principality of Lippe	Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1 October 1833 - 27 November 1896) 17 April 1852 Rudolstadt no children	Left no descendants. The principality fell to his brother.
Adolphus I	1 August 1817	1860-1893	8 May 1893	Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe	Hermine of Waldeck-Pyrmont 25 October 1844 Arolsen three children
Woldemar	18 April 1824	1875-1895	20 March 1895	Principality of Lippe	Sophie of Baden 9 November 1858 Karlsruhe no children	Left no descendants. The principality fell to his brother.
Ferdinand III	6 October 1844	1882-1900	11 April 1900	County of Lippe-Weissenfeld	Margarete von Winterfeld (17 September 1858 - 11 July 1903) no children	Left no children. The county passed to his cousin, Clemens.
Ernest	9 June 1842	1884-1904	26 September 1904	County of Lippe-Biesterfeld	Karoline of Wartensleben 16 September 1869 Neudorf^{[disambiguation needed]} six children	Held regency to the Principality of Lippe due to the mental illness of his relative and actual prince, Alexander.
George	10 October 1846	1893-1911	29 April 1911	Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe	Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg 16 April 1882 Altenburg nine children
Regencies of Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1895-1904) and Leopold, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1904-1905)						Had a mental illness, so he never fully assumed he reins of the principality, which was assumed by his cousin from the Lippe-Biesterfeld line. After his death, his regent became the new prince.
Alexander	16 January 1831	1895-1905	13 January 1905	Principality of Lippe	Unmarried
Clemens	15 July 1860	1900-1918	29 April 1920	County of Lippe-Weissenfeld (until 1916) Principality of Lippe-Weissenfeld (from 1916)	Friederike von Carlowitz 7 January 1901 Proschwitz two children	Grandson of Christian, a brother of Ferdinand II. In 1918, he abdicated following the dissolution of the monarchy.
Leopold IV	30 May 1871	1904-1905	30 December 1949	County of Lippe-Biesterfeld	Bertha of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (25 October 1874 - 19 February 1919) 16 August 1901 Rotenburg five children Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen 16 April 1922 Büdingen one child	From the Lippe-Biesterfeld line. After the death of the last male representative of the Lippe-Detmold line, he assumed the reins of the Principality of Lippe, probably even merging his own county with the recently acquired principality. In 1918, he abdicated following the dissolution of the monarchy. In addition to being pro Nazis, both his eldest sons (Ernst and Chlodwig) had contracted unequal marriages. So in 1947, when Leopold wrote his will, Armin, his youngest son and only child with his second wife, would succeed him as head of the House of Lippe. One of Leopold's nephews, Bernhard, became the consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.
Leopold IV	30 May 1871	1905-1918	30 December 1949	Principality of Lippe
Annexation to Lippe
Adolphus II	23 February 1883	1911-1918	26 March 1936	Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe	Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus (6 November 1894 - 26 March 1936) 10 January 1920 Berlin no children	In 1918, he abdicated following the dissolution of the monarchy. Died in a plane crash.

Line of succession

Rudolph Ferdinand, Count of Lippe-Sternberg-Schwalenberg (1671–1736)
- Frederick Karl Augustus, Count of Lippe-Sternberg-Schwalenberg (1706–1781), since 1762 of Lippe-Biesterfeld
  - Karl Ernest Casimir, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1735–1810)
    - William Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1777–1840)
      - Julius Peter Hermann August, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1812–1884)
        Ernest Kasimir Frederick Karl Eberhard, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1842–1904), regent of the Principality 1897–1904
        Leopold IV, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld 1904–1905, Regent 1904–1905 and 6th Prince of Lippe 1905–1949 (1871–1949), abdicated 1918
        Armin, 7th Prince 1949–2015 (1924–2015)
        Stephan, 8th Prince 2015–present (born 1959)
        (1) Bernhard Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Lippe (born 1995)
        
        (2) Prince Heinrich Otto (born 1997)
        
        (3) Prince Benjamin (born 1999)
        
        Prince Julius Ernst (1873–1952)
        Prince Ernst August (1917–1990)
        (4) Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (born out of wedlock 1947)
        
        (5) Prince Ernst August (born 1952)
        
        Prince Rudolf Wolfgang Ludwig Ernst Leopold (1856–1931)
        Prince August Friedrich Wilhelm (1890–1938)
        (6) Prince Rudolf Ferdinand Ludwig Eberhard Bernhard (born 1937)
        (7) Prince Jean Friedrich Christian Wladimir Hermann Simon Heinrich (born 1982)

Notes

^ G. Benecke, Society and Politics in Germany, 1500–1750, Routletge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1974, p. 41.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chisholm 1911, p. 740.
^ "Wo Deutschland fast noch eine Monarchie ist" by Andreas Fasel, Die Welt, 25 December 2015 (in German)

References

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lippe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 740–741.

External links

Ordinances and by-laws of the county of Lippe online (in German)
Guidelines for the integration of the Land Lippe within the territory of the federal state North-Rhine-Westphalia of 17 January 1947 (in German)

[1] G. Benecke, Society and Politics in Germany, 1500–1750, Routletge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1974, p. 41.

[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911740-2] Chisholm 1911, p. 740.

[3] "Wo Deutschland fast noch eine Monarchie ist" by Andreas Fasel, Die Welt, 25 December 2015 (in German)

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