| House of Lippe-Biesterfeld | |
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 Coat of arms of the House of Lippe-Biesterfeld,[1] combining the Lippian rose with the coat of arms of the counts of Schwalenberg | |
| Parent house | House of Lippe |
| Country | Biesterfeld, Lippe, Germany, Netherlands |
| Founded | 1625 (1st cadet house); 1916 (2nd cadet house) |
| Founder | Jobst Herman |
| Final head | Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911–2004) |
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| Dissolution | only female members |
The House of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a comital and later princely cadet line of the House of Lippe (a German dynasty reigning from 1413 until 1918, of comital and, from 1789, of princely rank).
The comital branch of Lippe-Biesterfeld ascended the throne of the Principality of Lippe in 1905, after the extinction of the ruling main branch, when count Leopold of Lippe-Biesterfeld became Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe. He continued to rule until the German Revolution of 1918. In 1916, he created his younger brother, count Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, a prince. Through the latter's son, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911–2004), the prince consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, it also became a title of the Dutch Royal House, created in 1937.