County of Horne

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

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.

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