| Prince Bernhard of Lippe | |||||
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 Prince Bernhard of Lippe ca. 1909 | |||||
| Born | (1872-08-26)26 August 1872 Oberkassel,Kingdom of Prussia | ||||
| Died | 19 June 1934(1934-06-19) (aged 61) Munich,Nazi Germany | ||||
| Spouse | |||||
| Issue | Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ||||
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| House | House of Lippe | ||||
| Father | Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ||||
| Mother | CountessKaroline of Wartensleben | ||||
Prince Bernhard of Lippe (Bernhard Kasimir Wilhelm Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Eduard; 26 August 1872 – 19 June 1934) was a member of theLippe-Biesterfeld line of theHouse of Lippe. He was the father ofPrince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, theprince consort ofQueen Juliana of the Netherlands.
Prince Bernhard of Lippe, born as Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld inOberkassel on 26 August 1872, was the 2nd son ofErnest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent (1897–1904) ofPrincipality of Lippe, and his wifeCountess Karoline von Wartensleben. He was a younger brother ofLeopold IV, Prince of Lippe, who succeeded as reigning Prince of Lippe in 1905. He pursued a career as a soldier, serving in thePrussian Army, and attaining the rank ofmajor.
TheLippe-Biesterfeld family had lived atOberkassel, Bonn, ever since 1770, when count Frederick William (1737–1803) had married Elisabeth Johanna, Edle von Meinertzhagen (1752–1811), who inherited a small manor house at Oberkassel where the couple moved fromBiesterfeld in 1770, and which became the home to the family for the following 209 years. Beethoven is said to have been a piano teacher to the couples' children. The manor house and farm at Biesterfeld were demolished around 1820. Prince Bernhard acquired theReckenwalde castle in eastern Brandenburg (today Wojnowo, Poland), the family's newestate, where his children grew up.
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On 4 March 1909, Bernhard entered into amorganatic marriage withBaroness Armgard von Sierstorpff-Cramm, widowed Countess vonOeynhausen. Before this marriage, his wife was granted the titleCountess of Biesterfeld (Gräfin von Biesterfeld) on 8 February 1909. She and her two sons Bernhard and Aschwin were createdPrincess (Prince) of Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prinzessin (Prinz) zur Lippe-Biesterfeld) on 24 February 1916 with the styleSerene Highness,[1] which brought their children into a more senior place in the line of succession, in which they hitherto had been the very last. The suffix Biesterfeld was revived to mark the beginning of a newcadet line.[2][3][4]They had two sons:
Bernhard died inMunich, aged 61.
| 8. Ernst, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld | |||||||||||||||
| 4.Julius, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld | |||||||||||||||
| 9. Modeste Christiane von Unruh | |||||||||||||||
| 2.Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld | |||||||||||||||
| 10. Friedrich, Count of Castell-Castell | |||||||||||||||
| 5.Countess Adelheid of Castell-Castell | |||||||||||||||
| 11. Princess Emilie of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | |||||||||||||||
| 1.Prince Bernhard of Lippe | |||||||||||||||
| 12. Count Cäsar Alexander of Wartensleben | |||||||||||||||
| 6. Count Leopold Otto of Wartensleben | |||||||||||||||
| 13. Friederike von Gfug, Heiress of Osniszczewo | |||||||||||||||
| 3. CountessKaroline of Wartensleben | |||||||||||||||
| 14.Arnold Halbach | |||||||||||||||
| 7. Mathilde Halbach | |||||||||||||||
| 15. Johanna Caroline Mathilda Bohlen | |||||||||||||||
This article is based onthis article onDutch Wikipedia.
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