Julius, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (; 2 April 1812 – 17 May 1884) was Count of

Lippe-Biesterfeld The House of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a comital and later princely cadet line of the House of Lippe (a German dynasty reigning from 1413 until 1918, of comital and, from 1789, of princely rank). The comital branch of Lippe-Biesterfeld ascended t ...

from 1840 to 1884 and father of Ernest II,

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of the

Principality of Lippe Lippe (later Lippe-Detmold and then again Lippe) was a state in Germany, ruled by the House of Lippe. It was located between the Weser river and the southeast part of the Teutoburg Forest. It originated as a state during the Holy Roman Empire, an ...

Early life

Julius was born at Oberkassel,

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(now in

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, Germany), fifth child and second son of Ernest I, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1777–1840, son of Karl, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld and Countess Ferdinande of

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) and his wife Modeste von Unruh (1781–1854, daughter of Karl Philipp von Unruh and Elisabeth Henriette Dorothea von Kameke).

Marriage

Julius married on 30 April 1839 at

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to Countess Adelheid Clotilde Auguste of

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(1818–1900), daughter of Friedrich, Count of

, and his wife, Princess Emilie of

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, daughter of

Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Karl Ludwig, 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (10 September 1762 in Langenburg – 4 April 1825 in Langenburg) was the third Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. He was the first child of Prince Christian Albert of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wi ...

. They had fourteen children: *Count Ernest of Lippe-Biesterfeld (20 March 1840 – 28 March 1840); *Countess Emilie Amalie Modeste Ernestine Bernhardine of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1 February 1841 – 11 February 1892), married in 1864 to Otto I, Prince of

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, had issue; * Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (9 June 1842 – 26 September 1904), married in 1869 to Countess Karoline von Wartensleben, had issue; *Count Adalbert of Lippe-Biesterfeld (15 October 1843 – 2 December 1890); *Countess Mathilde of Lippe-Biesterfeld (7 December 1844 – 10 January 1890); *Prince Leopold of Lippe (12 May 1846 – 28 January 1908); *Count Kasimir of Lippe-Biesterfeld (5 October 1847 – 16 February 1880); *Count Oscar of Lippe-Biesterfeld (18 December 1848 – 17 January 1849); *Countess Johanna of Lippe-Biesterfeld (6 March 1851 – 31 January 1859); *Friedrich Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (10 May 1852 – 15 August 1892), married in 1882 to Princess Marie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, had issue; *Countess Elisabeth of Lippe-Biesterfeld (25 September 1853 – 24 January 1859); *Prince Rudolf of Lippe (27 April 1856 – 21 June 1931), married in 1889 to Princess Louise of Ardeck, had issue (among which was

Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe (30 August 1895 – 25 December 1993) was a socialite and writer who was active in Nazi Germany. As the wife of Friedrich Kurt "Hanno" Konopacki-Konopath (1882–1962), a prominent DNVP, later NSDAP official (Minis ...

); *Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe (16 July 1858 – 6 August 1914), married in 1895 to Countess Gisela of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Meerholz (granddaughter of Ernst Casimir II, 2nd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen), had issue (among which was Princess Calixta of Lippe-Biesterfeld, wife of Prince Waldemar of Prussia); *Count Friedrich Karl of Lippe-Biesterfeld (19 June 1861 – 1 April 1901).

Ancestry

Notes and sources

*L'Allemagne dynastique, Huberty, Giraud, Magdelaine, Reference: II 288 *

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, Band I, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 148 *Gens Nostra, Reference: 1962 {{DEFAULTSORT:Julius, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld 1812 births 1884 deaths People from the Principality of Lippe House of Lippe Counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld