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

Lemgo Lemgo (; ) is a university and old Hanseatic League, Hanseatic 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 H ...

the son of

Simon VI, Count of Lippe Count Simon VI of Lippe (15 April 1554 in Detmold – 7 December 1613 in Brake (now part of Lemgo)) was an imperial count and ruler of the County of Lippe from 1563 until his death. Life Simon was the son of Count Bernhard VIII of Lippe (1 ...

(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

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, 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 to Landgravine Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (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 ** Friedrich Ernest, Count of Lippe-Alverdissen (1694-1749) *** Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1723-1787)

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