House of Lippe

Royal house
surname =House of Lippe
estate =
coat of arms =
country =Lippe, Schaumburg-Lippe
titles =Lord, Count, Prince
founder =Bernhard I
final ruler =Leopold IV
current head =Prince Armin or
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
founding year =1123
dissolution =1918
nationality =German
cadet branches =Lippe-Weissenfeld
Schaumburg-Lippe

The House of Lippe is a German royal house. The house of Lippe descends from Hermann of Lippe (died ca. 1056) whose son Bernhard I was the founder of the state of Lippe in 1123.

In 1613 the house's territory was split into Lippe-Detmold, Lippe-Brake and Lippe-Alverdissen. In 1643 Count Philipp of Lippe-Alverdissen founded the Schaumburg-Lippe line of the house of Lippe. In 1905 with the death of Prince Alexander the senior Lippe-Detmold branch of the family became extinct with Count Leopold of Lippe-Biesterfeld succeeding him as prince.

With the German Revolution of 1918 the prince's of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe were forced to abdicate ending the family's 795 years of rule in Lippe. In 1937 Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld married Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and with the ascension of their daughter Beatrix in 1980 the name of the royal house remained known as the House of Orange-Nassau although Beatrix and her sisters are agnatically members of the house of Lippe.

tates ruled by the House of Lippe

*Lippe (1123-1918) known as Lippe-Detmold from 1613.
*Lippe-Brake (1613-1709)
*Lippe-Alverdissen (1613-1640) and (1681-1777)
*Lippe-Biesterfeld (-1918)
*Lippe-Weissenfeld (-1918)
*Schaumburg-Lippe (1643-1918)
*Netherlands (1980-present) under the name House of Orange-Nassau

References

* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/lippe/lippe1.html Genealogy of the House of Lippe]
* [http://www.hostkingdom.net/gerI-M.html#Lippe Regnal chronology of Lippe]

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