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</style><table class="infobox ib-country vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above adr"><div class="fn org country-name">County of Loon</div><div class="ib-country-names"><span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Graafschap Loon</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>)</span><br><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Comté de Looz</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">1040–1795</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div style="padding: 0px 5px;">

</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-country-map-caption">The Low Countries around 1250, Loon in yellow</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="List_of_States_of_the_Holy_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="List of States of the Holy Roman Empire">State</a> of the <a href="Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Borgloon" title="Borgloon">Borgloon</a><br><a href="Hasselt" title="Hasselt">Hasselt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Common languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Limburgish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Limburgish language">Limburgish</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion <div class="ib-country-religion"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Government</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="County" title="County">County</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Historical era</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• First mentioned </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1040</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Gained <a href="County_of_Rieneck" title="County of Rieneck">Rieneck</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1106</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Acquired <a href="Chiny" title="Chiny">Chiny</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1227</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• To <a href="Heinsberg" title="Heinsberg">Heinsberg</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1336</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Incorporated by <a href="Prince-Bishopric_of_Li%C3%A8ge" title="Prince-Bishopric of Liège">Liège</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1366</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Annexed by<br><span class="nowrap">   </span><a href="French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">France</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1795</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

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<td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="Hasbania" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasbania">Hasbania</a>

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<td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a href="Meuse-Inf%C3%A9rieure" title="Meuse-Inférieure">Meuse-Inférieure</a>

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<p>The <b>County of Loon</b> (<a href="Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Graafschap Loon</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="nl-Latn-fonipa">[ˈɣraːfsxɑp<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈloːn]</span>, <a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Comté de Looz</i>) was a county in the <a href="Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a>, which corresponded approximately with the modern Belgian province of <a href="Limburg_(Belgium)" title="Limburg (Belgium)">Limburg</a>. It was named after the original seat of its count, Loon, which is today called <a href="Borgloon" title="Borgloon">Borgloon</a>. During the middle ages the counts moved their court to a more central position in <a href="Kuringen" title="Kuringen">Kuringen</a>, which today forms part of <a href="Hasselt" title="Hasselt">Hasselt</a>, capital of the province.

</p><p>From its beginnings, Loon was associated with the nearby <a href="Prince-bishop_of_Li%C3%A8ge" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince-bishop of Liège">Prince-bishop of Liège</a>, and by 1190 the count had come under the bishop's overlordship.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the fourteenth century the male line ended for a second time, at which point the prince-bishops themselves took over the county directly. Loon approximately represented the Dutch-speaking (archaic <a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">thiois</i>) part of the princedom. All of the Dutch-speaking towns in the Prince-Bishopric, with the status of being so-called "<a href="Good_Cities" title="Good Cities">Good Cities</a>" (<a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">bonnes villes</i>), were in Loon, and are in Belgian Limburg today.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These were <a href="Beringen%2C_Belgium" title="Beringen, Belgium">Beringen</a>, <a href="Bilzen" title="Bilzen">Bilzen</a>, Borgloon, <a href="Bree%2C_Belgium" title="Bree, Belgium">Bree</a>, <a href="Hamont-Achel" title="Hamont-Achel">Hamont</a>, <a href="Hasselt" title="Hasselt">Hasselt</a>, <a href="Herk-de-Stad" title="Herk-de-Stad">Herk-de-Stad</a>, <a href="Maaseik" title="Maaseik">Maaseik</a>, <a href="Peer%2C_Belgium" title="Peer, Belgium">Peer</a> and <a href="Dilsen-Stokkem" title="Dilsen-Stokkem">Stokkem</a>.

</p><p>Like other areas which eventually came under the power of the <a href="Prince_Bishop_of_Li%C3%A8ge" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Bishop of Liège">Prince Bishop of Liège</a>, Loon never formally became part of the unified lordship of the "<a href="Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a>" which united almost all of the <a href="Benelux" title="Benelux">Benelux</a> in the late <a href="Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, and continued to unite almost all of today's Belgium under the <i>ancien regime</i>. Loon and other Liège lordships only joined their neighbours when they all became part of France during the <a href="French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>. After the <a href="Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a>, they remained connected in the new <a href="United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="United Kingdom of the Netherlands">United Kingdom of the Netherlands</a>. In 1839, the old territory of Loon became the approximate basis of a new province, Limburg, within the new <a href="Kingdom_of_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Belgium">Kingdom of Belgium</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location">Location</h2></div>

<p>From the earliest mentions, the counts of Loon exercised power in three distinct geographical areas, with different medieval names.

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<ul><li>A northeastern part of Loon was in or near the Maas river valley, north of <a href="Maastricht" title="Maastricht">Maastricht</a>, the Frankish <i><a href="Maasau" class="mw-redirect" title="Maasau">Maasau</a></i>. This included <a href="Maaseik" title="Maaseik">Maaseik</a> and <a href="Bree%2C_Belgium" title="Bree, Belgium">Bree</a>.</li>

<li>The northwestern part of Loon was in the sandy <i><a href="Campine" title="Campine">Kempen</a></i> region (<a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Campine</i>), which the church still referred to by the Roman term <a href="Texandria" title="Texandria">Texandria</a>. The counts for example held <a href="Tessenderlo" title="Tessenderlo">Tessenderlo</a>, <a href="Beringen%2C_Belgium" title="Beringen, Belgium">Beringen</a> and <a href="Overpelt" title="Overpelt">Overpelt</a>.</li>

<li>The southern part was mainly within the Dutch-speaking part of the fertile hills of <a href="Pagus_of_Hesbaye" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagus of Hesbaye">Haspengouw</a> (<a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Hesbaye</i>, <a href="Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Hasbania</i>) which includes Borgloon itself. Parts of the Dutch-speaking Hesbaye which are now in Limburg were however ruled directly by the Prince-bishop for example around <a href="Tongeren" title="Tongeren">Tongeren</a>.</li></ul>

<p>All three of these components can be found in the modern province of Limburg. However, the early county did not have a simple geographical form. The earliest counts exercised a changing bundle of rights and duties in scattered locations which extended outside the core area, while other landholders also had rights within that area.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2></div>

<p>Like many of counties in the region, records mentioning counts of Loon begin in the early 11th century, but these give almost no indication of how the county came to be and what its original boundaries and institutions encompassed. The immediately preceding generations had seen many rebellions, confiscations, and expulsions. The larger region of <a href="Lower_Lotharingia" title="Lower Lotharingia">Lower Lotharingia</a> had been part of a separate Frankish "middle" kingdom, which however no longer had a king. The eastern and western kingdoms of the Franks, the forerunners of later France and the Holy Roman Empire, contested for control, together with the local magnates. By the year 1000, the area was under lasting control of the eastern kingdom. Royal power in the Haspengouw region was partly in the hands of the prince bishops of Liège, who had been enfeoffed by the emperor of at least two significant Haspengouw counties, <a href="County_of_Huy" title="County of Huy">Huy</a>, and <a href="Brunengeruz" title="Brunengeruz">Brunengeruz</a>. A third one, "Haspinga", came into the hands of the bishop in 1040. There is no consensus over what territory it encompassed, and it may have even included lordship over all or part of Loon.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The first generally accepted count (Dutch <i>graaf</i>, Latin <i>comes</i>, French <i>comte</i>) of Loon was the 11th century Giselbert (modern English and French "Gilbert"). He had two brothers, Count Arnulf, who appears to have been the last secular count of Haspinga, and bishop Balderic II of Liège.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Medieval records note that Giselbert and his brothers were related by blood to local nobility, such as <a href="Lambert_I%2C_Count_of_Louvain" title="Lambert I, Count of Louvain">Lambert I, Count of Louvain</a>, and <a href="Arnulf_of_Valenciennes" title="Arnulf of Valenciennes">Arnulf of Valenciennes</a>, but they do not give exact relationships. The only medieval source to mention a parent for Count Giselbert is the chronicle of the Abbey of St Truiden, which names his father as Otto. However this was written centuries later and is not considered reliable.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Not only is the parentage of Giselbert, Arnulf and Balderic uncertain, but also their connection to the next two count brothers, Emmo and Otto, is uncertain. They may be the sons of either Giselbert or Arnulf.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESouvereynsBijsterveld2008116_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESouvereynsBijsterveld2008116-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Another important charter in discussions about the origins of the County of Loon is the 1078 grant by Countess Ermengarde to the Bishop of Liège, of <a href="Allod" title="Allod">allodial</a> land in key places in the County of Loon. Her possessions cannot be explained by her proposed ancestry, or her known husband, and so it has long been suggested that she must have first married a Count Arnold, because he is presumed to have had no heirs.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>In the generation after the 3 brothers Balderic, Gilbert, and Arnulf, Count Emmo became the next count of Loon while his brother Count Otto was <i><a href="Advocatus" title="Advocatus">advocatus</a></i> of the Abbey of St Truiden, and the ancestor of the first line of <a href="County_of_Duras" title="County of Duras">counts of Duras</a>, perhaps through his wife Oda. The county of Duras was inherited by Otto's son Giselbert, and in turn by his son Otto. It eventually became part of Loon, under Count Gerard in the 1190s.

</p><p>Count Arnold (or Arnulf) I, the son of Emmo, is according to Baerten (1969 p. 40), the first Count of Loon for whom we can discuss any political activity. In 1106 he was able to strengthen his position, when he acquired the possessions of the extinct <a href="County_of_Rieneck" title="County of Rieneck">Counts of Rieneck</a> through his marriage. He also probably built the <a href="Motte-and-bailey_castle" title="Motte-and-bailey castle">motte-and-bailey castle</a> which was at Borgloon during the middle ages.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son <a href="Arnold_II%2C_Count_of_Loon" class="mw-redirect" title="Arnold II, Count of Loon">Arnold II, Count of Loon</a>, founded the <a href="Averbode_Abbey" title="Averbode Abbey">Abbey of Averbode</a>. The son and heir of Arnold II was Louis (Dutch <i>Lodewijk</i>) I also witnessed this charter. He became count of Loon, <i>Stadtgraf</i> of <a href="Mainz" title="Mainz">Mainz</a>, and count of <a href="Rieneck" title="Rieneck">Rieneck</a>, both in modern Germany. He increased Loon's territory adding <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmont" class="extiw external" title="nl:Kolmont">Kolmont</a> (now in Tongeren) together with <a href="Bilzen" title="Bilzen">Bilzen</a>. He strengthened the fort there and gave the city freedoms. He also did the same in <a href="Brustem" class="mw-redirect" title="Brustem">Brustem</a> in St Truiden, which came under threat as a Loon enclave surrounded by the County of Duras.

</p><p>Count Gerard (sometimes incorrectly called Gerard "II"), the next count of Loon and Rieneck, fortified Brustem and Kolmont, and moved the capital of the county to Kuringen. There he founded <a href="Herkenrode_Abbey" title="Herkenrode Abbey">Herkenrode Abbey</a>, for women living according to the <a href="Cistercians" title="Cistercians">Cistercian</a> rule. In Loon, the enduring conflict with his Liège overlords culminated in an 1179 campaign by Prince-Bishop <a href="Rudolf_of_Z%C3%A4hringen" title="Rudolf of Zähringen">Rudolf of Zähringen</a>, whose troops devastated the county's old capital at <a href="Borgloon" title="Borgloon">Borgloon</a> in 1179. In 1193 Gerard also acquired the county of Duras and advocacy of the abbey of Sint-Truiden, but had to accept Brabant's suzerainty over those lands. This gave him effective power over more lands in present day the southern part of Belgian Limburg. Gerard's son <a href="Louis_II%2C_Count_of_Loon" title="Louis II, Count of Loon">Louis II</a> was heir, but Rieneck went to another son, <a href="Gerard%2C_Count_of_Rieneck" title="Gerard, Count of Rieneck">Gerard, Count of Rieneck</a>. The counties of Rieneck and Loon were re-united eventually under Gerard of Rieneck's son <a href="Louis_III%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="Louis III, Count of Looz">Louis III of Loon</a>, but he then divided them again, giving Loon to his brother <a href="Arnold_IV%2C_Count_of_Loon" title="Arnold IV, Count of Loon">Arnold IV</a>.

</p><p>By marriage, Count Arnold IV acquired the French-speaking County of <a href="Chiny" title="Chiny">Chiny</a> in 1227, and brought the main line of the counts of Loon to the high point of its territorial expansion. The comital male line became extinct with the death of Louis IV of Loon in 1336 and the Loon and Chiny estates were at first inherited by the noble <a href="House_of_Sponheim" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Sponheim">House of Sponheim</a> at <a href="Heinsberg" title="Heinsberg">Heinsberg</a> with the consent of the Liège bishop. In 1362 Prince-Bishop <a href="Engelbert_III_of_the_Marck%2C_Archbishop_of_Cologne" class="mw-redirect" title="Engelbert III of the Marck, Archbishop of Cologne">Engelbert III of the Marck</a> nevertheless seized Loon and finally incorporated it into the Liège territory in 1366.

</p><p>The county remained a separate entity (<i>quartier</i>) within Liège, whose prince-bishops assumed the comital title. When the bishopric was annexed by <a href="French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">Revolutionary France</a> in 1795, the county of Loon was also disbanded and an adjusted version of the territory became part of the <a href="Departments_of_France" title="Departments of France">French département</a> of <a href="Meuse-Inf%C3%A9rieure" title="Meuse-Inférieure">Meuse-Inférieure</a>, along with <a href="Limburg_(Netherlands)" title="Limburg (Netherlands)">Dutch Limburg</a> to the east of the Maas. After the defeat of <a href="Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>, the département became part of the new <a href="United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="United Kingdom of the Netherlands">United Kingdom of the Netherlands</a> in 1815, and received its modern name of Limburg as a way for the kingdom to preserve the old title of the medieval <a href="Duchy_of_Limburg" title="Duchy of Limburg">Duchy of Limburg</a>, which was nearby. However, in 1830, Belgium was created, splitting the kingdom, and the position of Limburg and Luxemburg became a cause of conflict. In 1839, under international arbitration, it was finally decided to split Limburg and Luxemburg into their two modern parts. The western part of Limburg, corresponds roughly to the old county of Loon, and became part of Belgium. Both the Belgian and Dutch parts kept their new name of Limburg.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Counts_of_Loon">Counts of Loon</h2></div>

<ul><li><a href="Otto%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="Otto, Count of Looz">Count Otto</a> (doubted). Named as count of Loon in a much later St Truiden Abbey account of his son Baldric II's installation as Bishop of Liège in 1008. His existence is doubted, for example by Baerten.</li>

<li><a href="Giselbert_van_Loon" class="mw-redirect" title="Giselbert van Loon">Giselbert</a> (count at least 1015-1036), he and his brother Arnold were both referred to as counts in Haspengouw, and Giselbert was specifically referred to as count of Loon.</li>

<li><a href="Emmo_van_Loon" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmo van Loon">Emmon</a> (d.1078), clearly called "count of Loon" in own lifetime. His brother Otto, an <a href="Advocatus" title="Advocatus">advocate</a> of the <a href="Abbey_of_Sint-Truiden" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbey of Sint-Truiden">Abbey of Sint-Truiden</a> was ancestor of the counts of Duras, but the brothers were collectively called counts of Loon in this generation. It is uncertain who the parents of the two brothers was.</li>

<li><a href="Arnold_I%2C_Count_of_Loon" title="Arnold I, Count of Loon">Arnold I</a> (count at least 1090-1125), son of Emmo, married Agnes, daughter and heiress of Gerard, <a href="Burgrave" title="Burgrave">Burgrave</a> of <a href="Archbishopric_of_Mainz" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishopric of Mainz">Mainz</a>. (His contemporary, another Giselbert, the son of his uncle Otto, was count in Duras.)</li>

<li><a href="Arnold_II%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="Arnold II, Count of Looz">Arnold II</a> (count in 1135), son of Arnold I. Founded <a href="Averbode_Abbey" title="Averbode Abbey">Averbode Abbey</a>.</li>

<li><a href="Louis_I%2C_Count_of_Loon" title="Louis I, Count of Loon">Louis I</a> (1139–1171), son of Arnold II, married Agnes, daughter of Count Folmar V of <a href="Metz" title="Metz">Metz</a>.</li>

<li><a href="G%C3%A9rard_II%2C_Count_of_Looz" class="mw-redirect" title="Gérard II, Count of Looz">Gerard</a> (1171–1191), son, married Adelaide, daughter of Count <a href="Henry_I%2C_Count_of_Guelders" title="Henry I, Count of Guelders">Henry I of Guelders</a>.</li>

<li><a href="Louis_II%2C_Count_of_Loon" title="Louis II, Count of Loon">Louis II</a> (1191–1218), son, married <a href="Ada%2C_Countess_of_Holland" title="Ada, Countess of Holland">Ada</a>, daughter of Count <a href="Dirk_VII%2C_Count_of_Holland" title="Dirk VII, Count of Holland">Dirk VII of Holland</a>, also <a href="Count_of_Holland" title="Count of Holland">Count of Holland</a> 1203 - 1207, followed by his brothers as guardians of his minor nephews Louis III and Arnold IV:</li>

<li><a href="Henry%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="Henry, Count of Looz">Henry</a> (1218), another son of Gerard, died soon after.</li>

<li><a href="Arnold_III%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="Arnold III, Count of Looz">Arnold III</a> (1218–1221), another son of Gerard, also <a href="County_of_Rieneck" title="County of Rieneck">Count of Rieneck</a>, married Adelaide, daughter of Duke <a href="Henry_I%2C_Duke_of_Brabant" title="Henry I, Duke of Brabant">Henry I of Brabant</a>.</li>

<li><a href="Louis_III%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="Louis III, Count of Looz">Louis III</a> (1221–1227), grandson of Gerard, son of <a href="G%C3%A9rard_III%2C_Count_of_Rieneck" class="mw-redirect" title="Gérard III, Count of Rieneck">Gerard, Count of Rieneck</a>, also Count of Rieneck 1221 - 1243, renounced Loon in favour of his younger brother.</li>

<li><a href="Arnold_IV%2C_Count_of_Loon" title="Arnold IV, Count of Loon">Arnold IV</a> (1227–1273), another grandson of Gerard and son of Count Gerard of Rieneck, married Joanna, daughter of <a href="Louis_IV_of_Chiny" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis IV of Chiny">Louis IV the Younger</a>, Count of <a href="Chiny" title="Chiny">Chiny</a>, also <a href="Counts_of_Chiny" title="Counts of Chiny">Count of Chiny</a> (as Arnold II)</li>

<li><a href="John_I%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="John I, Count of Looz">John I</a> (1273–1279), son, married Matilda, daughter of <a href="William_IV%2C_Count_of_J%C3%BClich" title="William IV, Count of Jülich">William IV, Count of Jülich</a>, secondly Isabelle de <a href="Cond%C3%A9-en-Brie" title="Condé-en-Brie">Condé</a></li>

<li><a href="Arnold_V%2C_Count_of_Looz" class="mw-redirect" title="Arnold V, Count of Looz">Arnold V</a> (1279–1323), son, also <a href="Counts_of_Chiny" title="Counts of Chiny">Count of Chiny</a> 1299 - 1313, married Margaret of <a href="Counts_of_Vianden" title="Counts of Vianden">Vianden</a></li>

<li><a href="Louis_IV%2C_Count_of_Looz" title="Louis IV, Count of Looz">Louis IV</a> (1323–1336), son, also <a href="Counts_of_Chiny" title="Counts of Chiny">Count of Chiny</a> (as Louis VI) since 1313, married Margaret, daughter of Duke <a href="Theobald_II%2C_Duke_of_Lorraine" title="Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine">Theobald II of Lorraine</a></li></ul>

<p><i>Male line extinct, succeeded by the Lords of Heinsberg:</i>

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<ul><li><a href="Thierry_de_Heinsberg%2C_Count_of_Looz" class="mw-redirect" title="Thierry de Heinsberg, Count of Looz">Theodoric</a> (or Diederik, or Thierry), (1336–1361) son of Gottfried of <a href="House_of_Sponheim" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Sponheim">Sponheim</a>, Lord of <a href="Heinsberg" title="Heinsberg">Heinsberg</a> and Mechtild of Loon, sister of Count Louis IV, also <a href="Counts_of_Chiny" title="Counts of Chiny">Count of Chiny</a> and Lord of Heinsberg.</li>

<li><a href="Godfrey_de_Heinsberg%2C_Count_of_Looz" class="mw-redirect" title="Godfrey de Heinsberg, Count of Looz">Gottfried</a> (1361–1362), nephew, son of John of Heinsberg, married Philippa, daughter of Count William V of Jülich, also <a href="Counts_of_Chiny" title="Counts of Chiny">Count of Chiny</a> and Lord of Heinsberg, sold the comital title to:</li>

<li><a href="Arnold_VI_de_Rumigny%2C_Count_of_Looz" class="mw-redirect" title="Arnold VI de Rumigny, Count of Looz">Arnold VI</a> of <a href="Rumigny%2C_Ardennes" title="Rumigny, Ardennes">Rumigny</a> (1362–1366), also <a href="Counts_of_Chiny" title="Counts of Chiny">Count of Chiny</a> (as Arnold IV), claimant, renounced in favour of Liege,</li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Count Gerard of Loon declared himself to hold Loon of the Bishop, in an <a href="Imperial_Diet_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)">Imperial Diet</a>. See Vaes pp.32-3.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See for example Vaes p.119. The Dutch speaking cities were specifically called the <i>cités thioises</i>, where "thioise" is an old word related to English "Dutch".</span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See for example <a href="#CITEREFVerhelst1984">Verhelst (1984</a>, p. 248). A charter dated 24 Jan 1040 mentions a "county of Haspinga in the <i>pagus</i> Haspengouw", which had been the possession of count Arnold, understood to be the brother of Count Giselbert of Loon, also known as Arnulf. With this charter <a href="Emperor_Henry_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Henry III">Emperor Henry III</a> granted this county to the <a href="St._Lambert's_Cathedral%2C_Li%C3%A8ge" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Lambert's Cathedral, Liège">Cathedral of Saint-Lambert</a> in Liège. (It can be seen at MGH DD H III 35 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00000449_00122.html?sortIndex=030%3A040%3A0005%3A010%3A00%3A00&sort=score&order=desc&context=haspingowi&divisionTitle_str=&hl=false&fulltext=haspingowi">p.45</a> - <i>comitatum Arnoldi comitis nomine Haspinga in pago Haspingowi</i>.)</span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although all of the charters which describe the brothers as siblings of bishop Balderic II of Liège are later forgeries, there is considered to be enough evidence to accept this relationship between the three brothers. There are many mentions of the relationship, and medieval forgeries were often wholly or partly based on older real documents. <a href="#CITEREFKupper1981">Kupper (1981)</a>: "Les documents qui éclairent les origines du prélat — documents diplomatiques faux ou suspects, sources narratives très tardives — sont loin d’offrir toutes les garanties. Nous estimons cependant que leur témoignage se fait l’écho d’une tradition basée sur la réalité." Vaes, following Baerten, emphasizes that in 1031, Bishop Reginard, Balderic II's successor, describes a grant made in the previous generation where Gislebert was named as both brother to Balderic and count of Loon. Kupper says that this document is also a false copy, though probably based on an older real act. "Cet acte est un faux qui se base probablement sur un document de 1026-1028"</span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Baerten, ‘Origines’, pp. 459-60. The primary record is <i>Gestorum Abbatem Trudonensium Continuatio Tertia</i> 1007, MGH SS X, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gRAaxM2uGjIC&pg=PA382">p.382</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESouvereynsBijsterveld2008116-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESouvereynsBijsterveld2008116_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSouvereynsBijsterveld2008">Souvereyns & Bijsterveld 2008</a>, p. 116.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example by Vanderkindere, Baerten, and Kupper. <a href="#CITEREFKupper2013">Kupper (2013)</a> discusses this grant in detail.</span>

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</style><span class=" nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="geo:50.8,5.35"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">50°48′N</span> <span class="longitude">5°21′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">50.800°N 5.350°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">50.800; 5.350</span></span></span></a></span></span>

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