Kasimir (Lippe-Brake)

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Casimir zur Lippe-Brake around 1670 on the painting by an unknown artist, location: Weser Renaissance Museum at Brake Castle

Kasimir zur Lippe-Brake (born July 22, 1627 in Brake ; † March 12, 1700 there ) was Count zu Lippe-Brake .

Life

Kasimir was born on July 22, 1627 as the son of Otto zur Lippe-Brake and Margarete von Nassau-Dillenburg (1606-1661).

He studied in Marburg and from 1647 to 1650 was on an educational trip to Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Geneva and Italy. From 1650 he helped his father. This time was marked by the reconstruction after the Thirty Years War and the improvement of relations with the House of Lippe-Detmold. When his father died on December 18, 1657, Kasimir took control of the County of Lippe-Brake in Brake Castle .

In 1663 he married Anna Amalia zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (1642–1683). A new heyday of the Braker Grafenhaus began, which was also made visible by a new construction period at Brake Castle .

In 1692 he handed over the government to his eldest son Rudolph. He kept his house in Schieder as a body breed .

Count Casimir died in 1700.

children

  • Rudolph (* May 10, 1664; † October 27, 1707) ⚭ November 4, 1691 Dorothea von Waldeck (* July 6, 1661; † July 23, 1702)
  • Otto (August 1, 1665 - August 3, 1688 in Negroponte )
  • Ferdinand (born January 5, 1668; † September 27, 1703 ⚔ near Maastricht )
  • Hedwig Sophia (February 20, 1669; † April 5, 1738) ⚭ October 27, 1685 Ludwig Franz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (* April 17, 1660; † November 25, 1694)
  • Ernst (May 10, 1670 - May 19, 1670)
  • Ernestine (November 1, 1671 - November 10, 1671)
  • Christine Marie (born September 26, 1673; † January 31, 1732) ⚭ January 3, 1696 Friedrich Moritz von Bentheim-Tecklenburg (* 1653; † 1710)
  • Luisa (November 4, 1676 - November 9, 1676)

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predecessor Office successor
Otto Graf zur Lippe-Brake
1657–1692 		Rudolph
personal data
SURNAME Casimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lippe-Brake, Casimir von; Lippe-Brake, Casimir von; Lippe-Brake, Casimir too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Lippe-Brake
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH Brake
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1700
Place of death Brake