County of Horne

Historic county of the Holy Roman Empire

County of Horne

Graofsjap Häör (Limburgish)
Graafschap Horn (Dutch)

920–1795

Coat of arms

Lordship of Horne (1350)

Status

County

Capital

Horn

Common languages

Limburgish (Dutch)

Religion

Roman Catholicism

Government

Feudal County

Historical era

Middle Ages

• Established

920

• Personal union

1568

• Annexed by France

1795

• Concordat

10 September 1801

Succeeded by

Meuse-Inférieure

Horne (also Horn, Hoorn or Hoorne) is a small historic county of the Holy Roman Empire in the present day 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.

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.^[1]

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

Rulers of Horne

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,
Willem IV of Horne (Lord 1330-1343)
Gerard II of Horne (Lord 1343-1345)
Willem V of Horne (Lord 1345-1357)
Dirk Loef of Horne (Lord 1357-1368)
Willem VI of Horne (Lord 1368-1405) † 1417,
William VII., † 1433,

Counts of Horne

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

References

^ Bulletin de la Commission centrale de statistique, Brussels, 1857, vol. 7, p. 136.

Sources

Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln Band XVIII (1998) Tafel 62ff und Band XIV (1991) Tafel 122

Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Prince-bishops

Cambrai (until 1678)
Corvey¹
Liège
Minden²
Münster
Osnabrück
Paderborn
Utrecht (until 1548)
Verden (until 1648)

Prince-abbots

Secular

Cleves with Mark
East Frisia¹
Jülich–Berg
Guelders (until 1548)
Luxemburg (until 1548)
Minden¹
Moers¹
Nassau-Dillenburg¹
Verden¹

Counts / Lords

From 1500	Bentheim Bronkhorst (until 1719) Diepholz Drenthe (until 1548) East Frisia (until 1667) Groningen (until 1548) Guelders (until 1548) Horne³ (until 1614) Hoya Lingen³ Lippe Manderscheid (until 1546) Moers (until 1541) Nassau Diez Hadamar Dillenburg (until 1664) Oldenburg Overijssel (until 1548) Pyrmont Ravensberg³ Reichenstein Rietberg Salm-Reifferscheid Sayn Schaumburg Tecklenburg Virneburg Wied Winneburg and Beilstein Zutphen (until 1548)
From 1792	Anholt Blankenheim and Gerolstein Gemen Gimborn Gronsfeld Hallermund Holzappel Kerpen-Lommersum Myllendonk Reckheim Schleiden Wickrath Wittem Utrecht (until 1548)
Status uncertain	Delmenhorst Fagnolle Schaumburg Hesse Lippe Spiegelberg Steinfurt