County Loon
The County of Loon (sometimes also Loen or Looz in the francophone-speaking area) is a former county that roughly corresponds to today's Belgian province of Limburg with the exception of the cities of Tongeren and Sint-Truiden . It included the places Beringen , Bilzen , Loon , Bree , Hamont , Hasselt , Herk-de-Stad , Maaseik , Peer and Stokkem .
history
The county of Loon is mentioned for the first time around the year 1000 and probably originated from the remains of the Carolingian county of Hespengau . The founder of the county was Otto , Graf in der Betuwe or his son Giselbert . Their descendant Count Gerhard II had to recognize the sovereignty of the diocese of Liège in 1190 and the bishop as heir in the event that no male descendants were present.
Loon Castle was a moth located in the center of what is now Borgloon ; As early as 1095, Count Arnold I moved his headquarters to the castle in Kuringen near Hasselt , which is easier to defend , and where the Prinsenhof, built at the beginning of the 16th century, stands today. Loon Castle was first devastated in 1179 in the feud of Count Gerhard II (1171-1194) with the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Rudolf von Zähringen , and then again around 1232. The castle hill with the ruins was demolished between 1870 and 1877, at the Today the church of St. Odulfus stands in the place of the castle chapel.
Around 1200 the residence of the counts was finally relocated to Hasselt. In 1227 Count Arnold IV inherited the County of Chiny from the House of Chiny through his marriage to Jeanne de Chiny . In 1336 the older line of the House of Loon died out with the death of Count Ludwig IV (the younger line Looz-Corswarem is still in bloom today).
Ludwig IV's nephew Dietrich von Heinsberg from the Heinsberg family , the brother-in-law of the Liège bishop Adolf von der Mark , was able to inherit the Count of Loon because the bishop waived his right to claim. Gottfried von Heinsberg , Lord von Dalenbroeck and Dietrich's nephew, inherited Loon in 1361, but had to give way to the new Bishop Engelbert von der Mark , who took Loon in 1362. Gottfried sold his rights to Loon to his cousin Arnold von Rümmingen (Arnoul de Rumigny), who tried in vain to conquer the county, and in 1366 finally declared his resignation. The Prince-Bishop of Liège now assumed the title of Count of Loon, maintaining the county's institutions and giving the county some autonomy, a decree that was confirmed in 1522.
After the Battle of Fleurus (1794) and the French occupation of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine, Loon was integrated into the Meuse-Inférieure department .
After the death of his father-in-law Gerhard, Count von Rieneck , Count Arnold I von Loon (1101–1139) inherited the County of Rieneck in what is now Lower Franconia in 1106 . He was followed by his son, Arnold II., And his grandson, Ludwig I. In the late 12th century, the family divided their property: Ludwig II received Loon, Gerhard III. the Rienecker lordship. Philip III von Rieneck died as the last male member of this branch of the Loon Counts in 1559.
Counts of Loon
House loon
- Otto , grandson of Rudolf von Haspinga , count in the Betuwe; ∞ Luitgard of Namur, daughter of Albert I , Count of Namur , and Ermengarde of Lower Lorraine
- Giselbert († 1044 or 1046), his son; ∞ Erlende de Jodoigne
- Emmon († 1078), his son; ∞ Suanehilde, daughter of Dietrich III. , Count of West Friesland , and Othelendis von Nordmark.
- Arnold I. (1060, † 1126), his son; ∞ Agnes of Mainz; his second son Johann founded the Looz-Corswarem line, which is still flourishing today
- Gerhard I. († 1103), his son
- Arnold II. († before 1141), son of Arnold I .; ∞ Agnes
- Ludwig I (around 1125 to 1130, † 1171), his son; ∞ Agnes von Metz, daughter of Folmar V, Count von Metz , and Mathilde von Dagsburg
- Gerhard II († 1191), his son; ∞ Adelheid von Geldern, daughter of Heinrich I , Count von Geldern , and Agnes von Arnstein
- Ludwig II. († 1218), his son; ∞ Ada , Countess of Holland , daughter of Count Dietrich VII and Adelheid von Kleve
- Heinrich († 1218), whose brother, canon in Saint-Lambert in Liège, Count von Loon during the minority of Arnold IV.
- Arnold III († 1221), his brother, Count von Rieneck and Loon while Arnold IV was a minor; ∞ Adelheid von Brabant (1190, † 1265), daughter of Heinrich I , Duke of Brabant and Mathilde of Alsace
- Ludwig III. († 1243), Count von Loon, his nephew, son of Gerhard III., Count von Rieneck, and Kunigunde von Zimmer, renounced 1227 in Loon in favor of his brother
- Arnold IV († 1273), Count von Loon and Count von Chiny (Arnold II), his brother, son of Gerhard III, Count von Rieneck, and Kunigunde von Zimmer; ∞ Johanna Countess of Chiny (1205, † 1271) ( House of Chiny )
- Johann I († 1279), his older brother; ∞ I 1258 Mathilde von Jülich, daughter of Wilhelm IV , Count von Jülich , and Mathilde von Geldern; ∞ II Isabelle de Condé
- Arnold V , Count of Loon and Chiny (Arnold III.) His son from his first marriage, ceded Chiny to his son in 1313; ∞ Margarete von Vianden.
- Ludwig IV. , († 1336), Count of Looz and Chiny (Ludwig VI.), His son; ∞ Margarete von Lothringen († 1348), daughter of Duke Theobald II of Lorraine , and Isabelle de Rumigny .
House Heinsberg
- Dietrich von Heinsberg († 1361) from the Spanheimer family , Count von Looz and Chiny, his nephew, son of Gottfried von Heinsberg and Mathilde von Looz, daughter of Arnold V; ∞ Kunigunde von der Mark
- Gottfried von Heinsberg (1325, † 1395 ), Lord of Dalenbroich , his nephew, son of Johann von Heinsberg, Lord of Dalenbroich, and Katharina von Voorne ; he received Loon and Chiny from his uncle, but lost Loon to the Bishop of Liege; Gottfried sold Loon.
Rumigny house
- Arnold von Rümmingen , son of Guillaume d'Oreye.
Bishops of Liege
The county is drafted by Bishop Engelbert von der Mark (* 1304 - 25 August 1368). All of the bishops of Liège who followed him up to 1794 are also formally Counts of Loon.