Philipp I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (18 July 1601 – 10 April 1681) was the founder of the

Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe, also Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807, a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bück ...

line. He was born in

Lemgo Lemgo (; nds, Lemge, Lemje) is a small university town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser Uplands, 25 km east of Bielefeld and 70 km west of Hannover. T ...

the son of Simon VI, Count of Lippe (1555–1613) and his second wife Countess Elisabeth of Holstein-Schaumburg (1566–1638). Following the death of his father in 1613, he inherited Lippe-Alverdissen, which he ruled until the creation of Schaumburg-Lippe in 1640. Schaumburg-Lippe was founded after the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle ...

, when Otto V, Count of Schaumburg died without children. Following his death the County of Schaumburg went to his mother, Countess Elisabeth of Lippe as the legal heir. In 1640 she transferred her rights to her brother Philipp, who then became the first Count of Schaumburg-Lippe. He reigned as count until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Friedrich Christian. His second son Philipp Ernest received Lippe-Alverdissen.

Marriage and children

He was married on 13 October 1644 at

Stadthagen Stadthagen () is the capital of the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km east of Minden and 40 km west of Hanover. The city consists of the districts Brandenburg, Enzen-Hobbensen, Hörkamp-L ...

Landgravine Sophie of Hesse-Kassel Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (12 September 1615, in Kassel – 22 November 1670, in Bückeburg) was a princess of Hesse-Kassel by birth and by marriage Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe. Life Sophie was a daughter of Count Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (1572 ...

(or Hesse-Cassel) (1615–1670), they had ten children. *Countess Elisabeth (1646–1646) *Countess Sophie (1648–1671) *Countess Johanna Dorothea (1649–1696) *Countess Luise (1650–1731) *Count Wilhelm Bernard (1651–1651) *Countess Elisabeth Philippine (1652–1703) *Countess Charlotte Juliana (1658–1684) *Count Frederick Christian (1655–1728) *Count Karl Hermann (1656–1657) *Count Philip Ernest (1659–1753) founder of the Schaumburg-Lippe-Alverdissen line

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Schaumburg-Lippe Nobility
1601 births 1681 deaths People from Lippe Counts of Lippe House of Lippe People from Schaumburg-Lippe {{Germany-noble-stub