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County of HorneGraofsjap 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
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	920
• Personal union	1568
• Annexed by France	1795
• Concordat	10 September 1801
Preceded by Succeeded by Maasgau Meuse-Inférieure French First Republic

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.

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

1. 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

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Prince-bishops	Cambrai (until 1678) Corvey Liège Minden Münster Osnabrück Paderborn Utrecht (until 1548) Verden (until 1648)
Prince-abbots	Corvey Essen Herford Kornelimünster Stavelot–Malmedy Thorn Werden
Secular	Arenberg Cleves with Mark East Frisia Jülich–Berg Guelders (until 1548) Luxemburg (until 1548) Minden Moers Nassau-Dillenburg Verden
Counts / Lords	From 1500 Bentheim Bronkhorst (until 1719) Diepholz Drenthe (until 1548) East Frisia (until 1667) Groningen (until 1548) Guelders (until 1548) Horne (until 1614) Hoya Lingen Lippe Manderscheid (until 1546) Moers (until 1541) Nassau Diez Hadamar Dillenburg (until 1664) Oldenburg Overijssel (until 1548) Pyrmont Ravensberg 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
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