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County of Horne

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Languages
  
Limburgish (Dutch)

Government
  
Principality

Established
  
920

Date dissolved
  
1795

Religion
  
Roman Catholicism

Historical era
  
Middle Ages

Capital
  
Horn, Netherlands

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Horne (also Horn, Hoorn or Hoorne) is a small historic county of the Holy Roman Empire in present Netherlands and Belgium. It takes its name from the village Horn, west of Roermond. The residence of the counts of Horne was moved from Horn to Weert in the 15th century.

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After the execution in 1568 of Philip de Montmorency who died without male heirs, the Prince-Bishop of Liège, as suzerain of Horne, was declared the direct lord and new count. The bishops ruled the county in personal union. Horne maintained its own laws and customs as well as its financial autonomy. The county included the communes of Neer, Nunhem, Haelen, Buggenum, Roggel, Heythuysen, Horne, Beegden, Geystingen and Ophoven.

It was suppressed in 1795, when it was occupied by the French, and it became part of the French département Meuse-Inférieure.

Lords of Horne

  • Engelbert de Hurne,
  • Engelbert de Hurnen,
  • Henry van Horn, † 1196
  • William,
  • Engelbert,
  • Gerhard van Horn
  • William I., † 1264/65,
  • Engelbert van Horn, 1212/64
  • William II., † 1300/1301,
  • William III., † 1301,
  • Gerhard I., † 1330,
  • William IV., † 1343,
  • Gerhard II., X 1345,
  • William V., 1344/57
  • William VI., † 1417,
  • William VII., † 1433,

    • Counts of Horn

  • Jacob I., † 1488,
  • Jacob II., † 1530,
  • Jacob III., X 1531,
  • John, † 1540
  • Philippe de Montmorency
  • The prince-bishops of Liège, 1568-1795

    • References

    County of Horne Wikipedia
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