Julius, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld was Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Lippe-Biesterfeld

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 from 1840 to 1884 and father of Ernest II, regent

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 of the Principality of Lippe

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. He is direct ancestor of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

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Early life

Julius was born at Oberkassel

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, Kingdom of Prussia

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, (now in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany

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) fifth child and second son of Ernest I, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1777–1840), (son of Karl, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld and Countess Ferdinande of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda) and his wife, Modeste von Unruh (1781–1854), (daughter of Karl Philipp von Unruh and Elisabeth Henriette Dorothea von Kameke).

Marriage

Julius married in 30 April 1839 at Castell

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 to Countess Adelheid of Castell-Castell

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 (1818–1900), daughter of Friedrich, Count of Castell-Castell, and his wife, Princess Emilie of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

They had fourteen children:

• Count Ernest of Lippe-Biesterfeld (20 March 1840 – 28 March 1840)
• Countess Emilie of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1 February 1841 – 11 February 1892), married in 1864 to Otto I, Prince of Salm-Horstmar, had issue.
• Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (9 June 1842 – 26 September 1904), married in 1869 to Countess Karoline of Wartensleben, had issue.
• Count Adalbert of Lippe-Biesterfeld (15 October 1843 – 2 December 1890)
• Countess Mathilde of Lippe-Biesterfeld (7 December 1844 – 10 January 1890)
• Prince Leopold of Lippe-Biesterfeld (12 May 1846 – 28 January 1908)
• Count Kasimir of Lippe-Biesterfeld (5 October 1847 – 16 February 1880)
• Count Oscar of Lippe-Biesterfeld (18 December 1848 – 17 January 1849)
• Countess Johanna of Lippe-Biesterfeld (6 March 1851 – 31 January 1859)
• Count Friedrich of Lippe-Biesterfeld (10 May 1852 – 15 August 1892), married in 1882 to Princess Marie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, had issue.
• Countess Elisabeth of Lippe-Biesterfeld (25 September 1853 – 24 January 1859)
• Prince Rudolf of Lippe-Biesterfeld (27 April 1856 – 21 June 1931), married in 1889 to Princess Louise of Ardeck, had issue.
• Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe-Biesterfeld (16 July 1858 – 6 August 1914), married in 1895 to Countess Gisela of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Meerholz, had issue.
• Count Friedrich Karl of Lippe-Biesterfeld (19 June 1861 – 1 April 1901)

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