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The County of Hainaut ( French: Comté de Hainaut; Dutch: Graafschap Henegouwen; Latin: comitatus hanoniensis ), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled the present-day border of Belgium and France. Its most important towns included Mons ( Dutch: Bergen ), now in Belgium, and ...
Count of Hainaut. The Count of Hainaut ( French: Comte de Hainaut; Dutch: Graaf van Henegouwen; German: Graf von Hennegau) was the ruler of the county of Hainaut, a historical region in the Low Countries (including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany).
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Historical map of the County of Hainaut, with in red the current French-Belgian border. The province derives from the French Revolutionary Jemmape department, formed in 1795 from part of the medieval County of Hainaut, the small territory of Tournai and the Tournaisis, a part of the county of Namur (), and also a small part of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège ().
The County of Hainaut ( French: Comté de Hainaut; Dutch: Graafschap Henegouwen; Latin: comitatus hanoniensis ), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled the present-day border of Belgium and France. Its most important towns included Mons ( Dutch: Bergen ), now in Belgium, and ...
Mar 15, 2024 · John II (born c. 1247—died September 11?, 1304, Hainaut) was the count of Hainaut (1280–1304) and of the Dutch provinces of Holland and Zeeland (1299–1304), who united the counties and prevented the northward expansion of the house of Dampierre, the counts of Flanders. Eldest son of John of Avesnes, count of Hainaut, and Alida, sister of ...
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Apr 22, 2024 · History. The province derives from the French Revolutionary Jemmape department, formed in 1795 from part of the medieval County of Hainaut, Tournai and the Tournaisis, a part of the county of Namur and of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. There is a large part of the historical county that is now within France and sometimes referred to as French ...
The county of Hainaut was created in the late 9th cent., and in the divisions of the Carolingian empire became a fief of Lotharingia. Count Reginar Long-Neck made himself master (late 9th–early 10th cent.) of the duchy of Lower Lorraine, which continued under his elder son (see Lotharingia ), while his younger son inherited Hainaut.
