Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake [SEP] place of death
Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake
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,
Lippe-Brake
Lippe-Brake was a county located in Germany. It was created in 1613 following the death of Count Simon VI of Lippe with his realm being split between his three sons with his second son Otto receiving the territory of Lippe-Brake. On the death of Count Louis Ferdinand in 1709 Lippe-Brake was inherited by the senior Lippe-Detmold line.
Counts of Lippe-Brake (1613–1709).
- Otto, Count 1613-1657 (1589–1657)
- Casimir, Count 1657-