Bernhard II, Edelherr zu Lippe, approximately 1140-1224

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Personal name heading	Bernhard II, Edelherr zu Lippe, approximately 1140-1224 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bernhard, Bishop of Selonia-Semgallen, approximately 1140-1224 Bernhard II, Edelherr zu Lippe, ca. 1140-1224
Birth date	1140~
Death date	1224
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Found in	Lippe und Livland, 2008: p. 7 ( ... des Edelherrn Bernhard II. zur Lippe) German Wikipedia, Dec. 30, 2008: "Bernhard II. (Lippe)" (Bernhard II. zur Lippe; b. ca. 1140 at Burg Lipperode; d. 1224 in Mesothen; founder of the ruling house of Lippe and of the cities of Lippstadt (1184/85) and Lemgo (1190); son of Hermann I. and nephew of Bernhard I., one of the outstanding Westphalian personalities of the Hohenstaufen period; after an illness transferred his suzerainity to his son Hermann II., retiring as a monk to the Cistercian abbey of Marienfeld; became abbot in Dünamünde in 1210; 1218-1224, bishop of Selonia in the Baltic; d. probably in Selburg, see of his diocese, or Mesothen) ADG/NDB - Allgemeine / Neue Deutsche Biographie online, via WWW, Dec. 20, 2008: NDB, Bd. 2, p. 111 (Bernhard II.; Edelherr zur Lippe, Bishop of Selonia-Semgallen; b. ca 1140; d. Apr. 4, 1224; became ruler of Lippe upon death of his older brother; allied with Henry the Lion until his deposition under Friedrich Barbarossa; founded cities of Lippstadt and Lemgo; crippled by foot trouble, he renounced the world and became a Cistercian monk, 1196; making a pilgrimage to Livonia, became abbot of Dünamünde (1211-1218), and bishop of Selonia-Semgallen (1218-1224); several of his children became prominent ecclesiastics)