Simon IV, Lord of Lippe ( – 11 August 1429) was the ruling Lord of

Lippe Lippe () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The ...

from 1415 until his death.

Life

He was born around 1404 as the eldest son of

Bernard VI, Lord of Lippe Bernhard VI, Lord of Lippe ( – 1415) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Lord of Lippe from 1410 until his death. He was the son of Simon III and his wife, Irmgard of Hoya. Marriage and issue On 28 June 1393, he married Margaret, ...

and his second wife, Elisabeth of Moers. Bernard VI died in 1415 and Simon IV inherited Lippe. In 1424 Count Adolph IX of Schauenburg tried to reconquer the County of Sternberg, which Schauenburg had pledged to Lippe in 1400. This led to a bitter feud, during which

Extertal Extertal is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with c. 11,500 inhabitants (2013). Extertal is located on the northern edge of the circle in the Teutoburg Nature Reserve, directly adjacent to Lower Saxony. The ...

and the church and castle of Bösingfeld were destroyed. However, Simon IV took appropriate countermeasures and in the end, he prevailed and retained Sternberg. In

Osterholz Osterholz is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Wesermarsch, Cuxhaven, Rotenburg and Verden, and by the city of Bremen. History Originally the prince-archbisho ...

he built a hunting lodge with a moat. Its main building was demolished in 1775.

Marriage and issue

Around 1426, Simon IV married with Margaret (1411 – 31 October 1456), the daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. They had two sons: *

Simon Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...

, who became Prince-Bishop of

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

* Bernard "the Bellicose", who succeeded as Lord of Lippe

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130216023500/http://www.kinder-lippe.de/Stadte/Extertal/extertal.html Lords of Lippe House of Lippe 1400s births 1429 deaths 15th-century German people Year of birth uncertain 15th-century lords in Europe {{Germany-noble-stub