County of Horne

County of Horne Graafschap Horn
State of the Holy Roman Empire
920–1795 →
The County of Horne, at the northern end of the Bishopric of Liège, ca 1560
Capital	Horn
Language(s)	Limburgish (Dutch)
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Government	Principality
Historical era	Middle Ages
- Established	920
- Personal union	1568
- Annexed by France	1795
- Concordat	10 September 1801

Map showing the Imperial Abbey of Thorn, the County of Horne and the barony of Kessenich

Castle Horn

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. After the execution of the last count of Horne, Philip de Montmorency, in 1568, the county was united with the bishopric of Liège in personal union.

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,
• 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

Princes of Horne

• Eugen Maximilian de Hornes
• Philip Emanuel, † 1718,
• Maximilian Emanuel, † 1763

Sources

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