monasteries was used to found charitable foundations and in 1578 as the basis for the county's first gymnasium, the Old County School at Korbach. Death Philip died at the age of 80 at Waldeck Castle, the ancestral home of the family. He was buried on 4 December 1574 in the family burial vault in the Nicholas chapel of the church of Marienthal monastery in Netze (now part of the city of Waldeck. Philip was succeeded as Count of Waldeck-Wildungen by his son Daniel. Marriage and issue Philip was married three times. On the 17 February 1523 in Emden, he married Margaret (born: 1500; died: 15 July 1537), a daughter of Count Edzard I of East Frisia and Countess Elizabeth of Rietberg. They had the following children: Ernst (born: 1523 or 1524; died: 1527) Elizabeth (born: 10 December 1525; died: 30 March 1543 at Waldeck Castle), married in 1542 with Count Reinhard of Isenburg (died: 28 February 1568) Samuel (born: 2 May 1528 at Waldeck Castle; died: 6 January 1570 at Friedrichstein Castle in Bad Wildungen), married on 8 October 1554 with Anna Maria (1538–1583), daughter of Count Henry XXXII of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg. Daniel, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (born: 1 August 1530; died: 7 June 1577 in Waldeck); he succeeded Philip as the ruling Count of Waldeck-Wildungen and married on 11 November 1568 with Barbara of Hesse (1536–1597), daughter of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and widow of Duke George I of Württemberg-Montbéliard Henry IX, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (born: 10 December 1531; died: 3 October 1577 in Werbe (now part of Waldeck)), married on 19 December 1563 with Anna of Viermund (died: 17 April 1599) Margaret (born: 1533; died: 1554 in Brussels) Frederick (born: 1534; died: 1557 in St. Quentin) Anastasia (born: 1536; died: 1561 in Heidelberg) Esther (born: 1537 in Bad Wildungen; died: probably in 1537) His second marriage, in 1539 to Catherine of Hatzfeld (died: 1546 in Naumburg), remained childless. On 6 October 1554, he married his third wife Jutta of Isenburg-Grenzau (died: 28 July 1564 at Waldeck Castle). With her he had the following children: Elizabeth (bor: 1555; died: 6 December 1569 at Waldeck Castle) Magdalene (born: 1558; died: 9 September 1599), married on 5 February 1576 with Count Philip Louis I of Hanau-Münzenberg (1553–1580) and on 9 December 1581 with Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen (1561–1623) External links Counts of Waldeck 1493 births 1574 deaths 16th-century German people