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{{Short description|Historic county of the Holy Roman Empire}}
{{Infobox Former Country
|native_name            = {{native name|li|Graofsjap Häör}}<br>{{native name|nl|Graafschap Horn}}
|conventional_long_name = County of Horne
|common_name            = Horne
|era                    = [[Middle Ages]]
|status                 = County
|empire                 = Holy Roman Empire
|event_start            = 
|year_start             = 920
|date_start             = 
|event_end              = [[French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1795|Annexed by France]]
|year_end               = 1795
|date_end               = 
|event1                 = [[Prince-Bishopric of Liège|Personal union]]
|date_event1            = 1568
|event_post             = [[Concordat of 1801|Concordat]]
|date_post              = 10 September 1801
|p1                     = Maasgau
|s1                     = Meuse-Inférieure
|s2                     = French First Republic
|image_coat             = Blason ville nl Horn(Limburg).svg
|image_map              = Locator Lordship of Horne (1350).svg
|image_map_caption      = Lordship of Horne (1350)
|capital                = [[Horn (Netherlands)|Horn]]
|common_languages       = [[Limburgish]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
|religion               = [[Roman Catholicism]]
}}
[[File:Comté de Horn, Vaugondy 1748.jpg|thumb|300px|The County of Horn in the 18th century]]
[[Image:Thorn, Horn, Kessenich.PNG|thumb|300px|Map showing the Imperial Abbey of Thorn, the County of Horne and the barony of Kessenich]]
[[File:HORN-002.JPG|thumb|250px|Castle Horn]]
'''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 (Netherlands)|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, Count of Hoorn|Philip de Montmorency]] who died without male heirs, the [[Prince-Bishopric of Liège|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.<ref>Bulletin de la Commission centrale de statistique, Brussels, 1857, vol. 7, p. 136.</ref>

It was suppressed in 1795, when it was [[French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1795|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==
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==Sources==

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

{{Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle}}

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