Otto (Lippe)

Irmgard von der Mark and Otto zur Lippe, St. Marien (Lemgo)

Otto von Lippe (* around 1300; † around 1360) was Herr von Lippe in Lemgo from 1344 to 1360 .

He is the son of Simon I. von Lippe and Adelheid von Waldeck and grew up with his siblings

• Bernhard (1277–1341), Prince-Bishop of  Paderborn
• Heinrich († approx. 1336), provost in Minden and cathedral scholaster in Münster
• Hermann († 1324), cleric
• Diedrich († 1326), knight in the  Teutonic Order
• Simon († approx. 1332), buried in Marienfeld Monastery
• Bernhard V  (1290– 1365), Lord of Lippe, ⚭ Richarda von der Mark (von Saffenberg)
• Adolf
• Mechthild († 1366), ⚭ Count Johann II. Von Bentheim († 1332)
• Adelheid (1298–1324), ⚭ Hermann II of Everstein 
• Hedwig (1313–1369), ⚭ Adolf VII. Von Holstein-Schauenburg († 1352)

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After the death of his father, Simons I, in 1344, the rule of Lippe was divided so that Otto got the area around Lemgo and his brother Bernhard V the area around Rheda .

Otto resided in Lemgo, which at that time still consisted of two cities (old town and new town) that only merged five years after his death. He was married to Irmgard von der Mark . Their children were Simon , Margarete and Adelheid.

predecessor	Office	successor
Simon I.	Herr zur Lippe (Lemgo) 1344-1360	Simon III