page_title: Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld
section_title: Marriage and children
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld / Marriage and children
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Lippesches Landhaus in Oberkassel, erbaut nach Plänen von Johann Conrad Schlaun zwischen 1750 und 1760 für die Kölner Familie von Meinertzhagen
context_page_description: Ernst, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld was the head of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line of the House of Lippe. From 1897 until his death he was the regent of the Principality of Lippe.
context_section_description: Ernest was married to Countess Karoline Friederike Cecilia of Wartensleben (1844–1905) on the 16 September 1869 in Neuhof. From the marriage he had six children (prince/princess of Lippe since 1905).
  Countess Adelheid (22 June 1870 – 3 September 1948) married Prince Frederick Johann of Saxe-Meiningen; they were the grandparents of Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of Crown Prince Otto of Austria.
  Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (30 May 1871 – 30 December 1949)
  Prince Bernhard of Lippe (1872–1934) (26 August 1872 – 19 June 1934) father of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.
  Prince Julius (2 September 1873 – 15 September 1952) married Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  Princess Karola (2 September 1873 – 23 April 1958)
  Princess Mathilde (27 March 1875 – 12 February 1907)
  Leopold, Julius and Karola were all guests at their nephew Bernhard's 1937 wedding to Princess Juliana.  
  In the Lippe succession dispute (1904–05), it was claimed on part of the Schaumburg-Lippe that countess Karoline of Wartensleben (who belonged to a family of counts whose rank of count was from the 18th century, and who were originally of lower nobility) was not noble enough to be legitimately a dynastic wife of count Ernest - that would have made her sons ineligible to succeed. However, it was ruled by the 1905 panel that her birth was high enough and her children with Ernest were dynasts.
caption: Lippe House at Oberkassel, Bonn
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