Lippe-Alverdissen
Lippe-Alverdissen was a German County of the ruling House of Lippe.
The branch was created in 1613 following the death of
Philipp receiving the estate of Alverdissen (near Barntrup
).
Following Count Philipp's ascension as Count of
Friedrich Christian who built the existing Renaissance castle at Alverdissen and later ceded it to his brother Philip Ernest who founded the Schaumburg-Lippe-Alverdissen line. The two lines remained separate until Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, of the junior Schaumburg-Lippe-Alverdissen branch inherited the county of Schaumburg-Lippe in 1777. In 1812, Alverdissen Castle was sold by the princes of Schaumburg-Lippe to Pauline, the wife of Leopold I, Prince of Lippe
.
Counts of Lippe-Alverdissen (1613–1640 and 1681–1777)
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