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- BIOGRAPHY
Simon was born about 1404, the son of Bernhard VI, Edler Herr zur Lippe, and his second wife Gräfin Elisabeth von Mörs und Saarwerden. About 1426 he married Herzogin Margarete von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen, daughter of Erich, Herzog von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen, and Herzogin Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Göttingen. They had two sons, Simon who would become prince-bishop of Paderborn, and Bernhard who would have progeny and become his father's heir as Bernhard VII 'Bellicosus'. Simon began his rule in 1415 on the death of his father. In 1424 Graf Adolf IX von Schaunburg attempted by force to reclaim the lands of the county of Sternberg which had passed by pledge to the lords of Lippe in 1400. In a bitter conflict the Extertal was laid waste and in Bösingfeld the church and castle were destroyed, but Simon managed to fight off the attack and retain the county.
In Osterholz he arranged for the construction of a hunting lodge with a moat; its main building was destroyed in 1775.
Simon died in 1429.
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