Early life
He was the son of Count Simon VII from 1587 to 1627) from his marriage to Countess Maria Magdalena of Waldeck-Wildungen (1606-1671) and is considered the founder of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line, as a result of his creation of the Biesterfeld manor, between 1654 and 1665.Marriage and issue
Jobst Hermann married on 10 October 1654 to Countess Juliane Elisabeth of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (4 October 1634 – 23 June 1689). Their children were styled Count (or Countess) of Lippe-Biesterfeld: * Juliane Elisabeth (15 June 1656 – 29 April 1709) * John Augustus (15 October 1657 – 9 September 1709) * Charlotte Sophie (16 September 1658 – 25 April 1672) * Simon Christian (8 October 1659 – 9 November 1660) * Theodore Adolph (22 October 1660 – 9 March 1709) * Christine Mary (12 February 1662 – 14 June 1710) * Christiane Ernestine (12 July 1664 – 28 December 1686) * Anna Auguste (14 September 1665 – 25 August 1730) * John Frederick (6 November 1666 – 21 February 1712) * Magdalene Emilie (30 November 1667 – 25 June 1677) * Concordia Dorothea (18 December 1668 – 25 June 1677) * John George Louis (12 January 1670 – 22 January 1693) * Rudolph Ferdinand (17 March 1671 – 12 June 1736); father of Count Frederick Charles Augustus. Another younger son of his, Count Ferdinand, founded the