Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake (21 December 1589 – 18 November 1657 in Blomberg) was the first ruling Count of

Lippe-Brake Lippe-Brake was a county during the 17th century, located in Lippe, Germany, and ruled by a branch of the House of Lippe. History The county was created in 1621 for Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake, second son of Count Simon VI of Lippe who had pa ...

Life

Otto was born on 21 December 1589 as the son of Count

Simon VI Simon VI may refer to: * Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester ( – 1265) * Simon de Montfort the Younger (1240–1271) * Simon VI, Count of Lippe Count Simon VI of Lippe (15 April 1554 in Detmold – 7 December 1613 in Brake (now part of ...

and his wife, Elisabeth of Holstein-Schaumburg (b. 1556) was born. When his father died in 1613, his elder brother Simon VII took up government of the country, while the youngest brother Philip I moved to

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, where he later founded 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 Bü ...

line. In 1621, the county was divided again, and Otto received his own part and founded the

line, which would die out in 1709. Otto died on 18 November 1657 in Blomberg.

Marriage and issue

On 30 October 1626, he married Margarethe of Nassau-Dillenburg (6 September 1606 in Beilstein – 1661), a daughter of Count George of Nassau-Dillenburg and Countess Amalia of Sayn-Wittgenstein, with whom he had the following children: *

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(1627-1700), married in 1663 with Countess Amalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (1642-1683) * Amalia (20 September 1629 – 19 August 1676), married to Count Herman Adolph of Lippe-Detmold (1616-1666) * Sabine (1631-1684) * Dorothea (23 February 1633 – 1706), married in 1665) with Johann, Count of Kunowitz (1624-1700) * William (1634-1690), married in 1667 with Countess Ludowika Margaret of

Bentheim-Tecklenburg Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German county based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History Bentheim-Tecklenburg emerged as a partition of the County of Bentheim in 1277, and was partitioned between it ...

* Maurice (1635-1666) * Frederick (1638-1684), married in 1674 with Sophie Louise of

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck The House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (Schleswig-Holstein-Beck or Beck for short) was a line of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg branch of the House of Oldenburg. It consisted of August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Bec ...

(1650-1714) * Otillie (1639-1680), married in 1667 with Frederick, Duke of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (1629-1683) * George (1642-1703), married in 1691 with Marie Sauermann (d. 1696) *

Augustus Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is known for being the founder of the Roman Pri ...

(1643-1701)

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