County of Horne explained

Native Name:
Conventional Long Name:County of Horne
Common Name:Horne
Era:Middle Ages
Status:County
Empire:Holy Roman Empire
Year Start:920
Event End:Annexed by France
Year End:1795
Event1:Personal union
Date Event1:1568
Event Post:Concordat
Date Post:10 September 1801
P1:Maasgau
S1:Meuse-Inférieure
S2:French First Republic
Image Map Caption:Lordship of Horne (1350)
Capital:Horn
Common Languages:Limburgish, Dutch
Religion:Roman Catholicism

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

Counts of Horne

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Notes and References

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