When Magdalene Countess Of Lippe was born in 1534, in Detmold, Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, her father, Simon V. zur Lippe, was 63 and her mother, Magdalene von Mansfeld-Mittelort, was 24. She died on 12 January 1604, at the age of 70.
German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name from the duchy of Lippe, which became an independent state in the 12th century.
German: variant of Lipp 3.
German: topographic name for someone living on the banks of the Lippe river in Westphalia.
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