Background
He was a son of Count Philip II of Waldeck-Eisenberg and his first wife, Catherine of Solms-Lich, and succeeded his father in 1524 as Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg.
He was a son of Count Philip II of Waldeck-Eisenberg and his first wife, Catherine of Solms-Lich, and succeeded his father in 1524 as Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg.
Around 1520 he built a residential wing of the later Goldhausen Castle in Korbach. In 1525, soon after he took office, he issued an order to introduce the Reformation in 1525 in Waldeck. Johann gave his inaugural sermon on 17 June 1526.
In 1529, the first Lutheran sermon was given in the Saint Kilian Church in Korbach.
He is portrait on the altar as its donor. Philip could not, however, push through the Reformation in Korbach.
Between 1526 and 1530, Philip acquired the secularized former Aroldessen monastery of the Hospital Brothers of Saint Anthony in Bad Arolsen and had it rebuilt to a Royal Palace. He employed Johann von Wolmeringhausen as his Hofmeister and, after 1530, Johann"s son Hermann von Wolmeringhausen.
Philip III died on 20 June 1539.
After his death, Waldeck-Eisenberg was divided.