Emperor Ferdinand III raised the small Lordship to the free immediate County of Holzappel as a reward for the services Melander had performed while in the imperial army.
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With her he, had his only child, a daughter named Charlotte Elisabeth, later Countess of Schaumburg-Holzappel.
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He was buried in the princely crypt (the Melandergruft) in the Lutheran St. John church in Holzappel, which was known as Esten at the time.
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Peter Melander left a fortune that allowed his widow Agnes to purchase the Lordship and Castle of Schaumburg in 1656, and merge it with Holzappel, thus forming the County of Holzappel-Schaumburg.
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The older literature says that he was born in 1585; this was based on an erroneous inscription in his epitaph in the church of Holzappel.
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