Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake

Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake
Spouse(s) Margaret of Nassau-Dillenburg
Noble family House of Lippe
Father Simon VI, Count of Lippe
Mother Elisabeth of Holstein-Schaumburg
Born (1589-12-21)21 December 1589
Died 18 November 1657(1657-11-18) (aged 67)
Blomberg

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

Life

Otto was born on 21 December 1589 as the son of Count Simon VI 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 Bückeburg, where he later founded the Schaumburg-Lippe line. In 1621, the county was divided again, and Otto received his own part and founded the Lippe-Brake line, which would die out in 1709.

Otto died on 18 November 1657 in Blomberg.

Marriage and issue

On 30 October 1626, he married Margaret of Nassau-Dillenburg (6 September 1606 in Beilstein 1661), a daughter of Count George of Nassau-Dillenburg, with whom he had the following children:

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Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake
Born: 21 December 1589 Died: 18 November 1657
Preceded by
Simon VI
as Count of Lippe
Count of Lippe-Brake
1621-1657
Succeeded by
Casimir


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