Jobst Herman of Lippe-Biesterfeld (9 February 1625 in

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– 6 July 1678 in

Biesterfeld Biesterfeld is currently part (''Ort'') of the Rischenau quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the city of Lügde, Germany. Rischenau History In the first half of the 17th century Count Simon VI of Lippe joined several failing dairy farms into one, and i ...

) was a titular Count of

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, Sternberg and Schwalenberg.

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 The House of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a comital and later princely cadet line of the House of Lippe (a German dynasty reigning from 1413 until 1918, of comital and, from 1789, of princely rank). The comital branch of Lippe-Biesterfeld ascended t ...

line, as a result of his creation of the

manor, between 1654 and 1665.

Marriage and issue

Jobst Hermann married on 10 October 1654 to Countess Juliane Elisabeth of

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(4 October 1634 – 23 June 1689). His cousin, their mothers being sisters. 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

Lippe-Weissenfeld The House of Lippe-Weissenfeld (German spelling: Lippe-Weißenfeld) was a comital and later princely cadet branch of the House of Lippe, a dynasty ruling the Principality of Lippe until the German Revolution of 1918–19. Branches of the House ...

line of the family. * William Christian (November 1672 – 6 May 1674) * Simon Christian (4 March 1674 – 23 June 1677) * Elisabeth Charlotte (21 March 1675 – 22 August 1676) * Juliane Sophie (6 December 1676 – 2 June 1705) * Justine Hermione (20 May 1679 – 15 June 1704) Counts of Lippe House of Lippe 1625 births 1678 deaths 17th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub