Edler Herr Simon VI zur Lippe

1554 - 1623  (69 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Simon VI zur Lippe
  Prefix	Edler Herr
  Birth	15 Apr 1554	Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Dec 1623	Brake
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  + 1. Gräfin Bernhardine zur Lippe,   b. 14 Oct 1563   d. 25 Aug 1628  (Age 64 years) ▻ Graf Johann I von Leiningen-Westerburg + 2. Edler Herr Simon VI zur Lippe,   b. 15 Apr 1554, Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland d. 17 Dec 1623, Brake  (Age 69 years) ▻ Irmgard von Rietberg,  m. 26 May 1578 ;   Gräfin Elisabeth von Schauenburg,  m. 13 Nov 1585 + 3. Magdalena zur Lippe,   b. 24 Feb 1552   d. 8 Mar 1587  (Age 35 years) ▻ Georg I von Hessen-Darmstadt + 4. Gräfin Anna zur Lippe,   b. 1551   d. May 1614  (Age 63 years) ▻ Graf Wolfgang von Everstein-Massow
  Person ID	I19675	Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Graf Bernhard zur Lippe, VIII,   b. 6 Dec 1527, Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland d. 15 Apr 1563, Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Gräfin Katharina von Waldeck-Eisenberg,   b. Abt 1524, Eiseberg, Waldeck, Deutschland d. 18 Jun 1583, Brake (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	Bef 18 May 1550
  Family ID	F6643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Irmgard von Rietberg   d. 1583
  Marriage	26 May 1578	Bückeburg
  Family ID	F6644	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2008

  
  

  Family 2	Gräfin Elisabeth von Schauenburg,   b. 1566   d. 7 Sep 1638 (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	13 Nov 1585	Bückeburg
  Children	1. Bernhard zur Lippe,   b. 1586   d. 1604 (Age 18 years) + 2. Graf Simon VII zur Lippe-Detmold,   b. 30 Dec 1587   d. 26 Mar 1627 (Age 39 years) + 3. Graf Otto zur Lippe-Brake,   b. 1589   d. 1657 (Age 68 years) + 4. Elisabeth zur Lippe,   b. 1592   d. 1646 (Age 54 years) + 5. Gräfin Ursula zur Lippe,   b. 25 Feb 1598, Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland d. 27 Jul 1638 (Age 40 years) + 6. Graf Philipp I zur Lippe-Alverdissen und Schaumburg,   b. 18 Jul 1601, Schloss Brake d. 10 Apr 1681 (Age 79 years)   7. Magdalene zur Lippe   d. 1604
  Family ID	F9166	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

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  Simon was one of the Calvinist counts; he had joined the Calvinist sect by 1600. Many Lippe citizens considered the sacrament of communion nothing more than bread and wine or even anti-Christian idolatry. They generally accepted the teaching of Martin Luther by 1538 and then Calvinism by 1605. For many, religion would occupy centre stage for some time into the future. Simon died on 17 December 1623 in Brake. Simon is the ancestor of both lines of the princes of Lippe. In 1613 the land, as it then existed, was divided among his three sons. The lines founded by two still exist, whilst the third (Brake) became extinct in 1709. Lippe proper was the patrimony of the eldest son, Simon VII, upon whose descendant Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold the title of prince of the empire was bestowed in 1789, a dignity already conferred, though not confirmed, in 1720. Philipp, the youngest son of Simon VI, received only a small part of his father's possessions, but in 1640 he inherited a large part of the countship of Schaumburg, including Bückeburg, and adopted the title of count of Schaumburg-Lippe. The ruler of this territory became a sovereign prince in 1807. Simon VII had a younger son, Jobst Hermann, who founded the line of counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and a cadet branch of this family were the counts of Lippe-Weissenfeld. In 1672 the two counties Biesterfeld and Weissenfeld passed by arrangement into the possession of the senior and ruling branch of the family.