County of Moha

During the Middle Ages, the County of Moha (Latin: comitatus Muhae or Mohae) was a small territory in the pagus of Hesbaye in the Duchy of Lower Lorraine in the Holy Roman Empire. It was centred around the village of on the right bank of the river Mehaigne and its nearby .

The "county" of Moha was originally an allod. It came to be regarded as a county only in the 11th century, when its lords became counts of Egisheim, and later counts of Dagsburg and Metz. Among its dependencies were the manors of , Saint-Jean, and Wanze.

The first recorded lord (not count) of Moha was Albert I, known from a charter of the bishopric of Liège dated 1031 and from another of Archbishop Poppo of Trier dated to 1040–44. This Albert may have belonged to the House of Verdun, since he signed immediately after Count Albert II of Namur in 1031 and Duke Godfrey the Bearded in the 1040s. Furthermore, Archbishop Poppo's charter was issued on behalf of Count Gozelo I of Montaigu and his wife.

Albert I was succeeded by Albert II, but how or even whether they are related is unknown. Albert II married Hedwig (Heilwig), a daughter of Count Henry I of Dagsburg and Egisheim, himself a son of Count Henry VI and nephew of Pope Leo IX. According to a letter of Pope Leo, his nephew Henry was dead by 1050. He was succeeded in Dagsburg by his son Hugh VII and in Egisheim by his daughter, who thus passed the county to Albert II. He became, by a combination of his new title (count) with his old allodial lordship (Moha), the first count of Moha. The Codex Hirsaugiensis explicitly refers to Albert as count of Egisheim. In his own donation to Marbach Abbey, he refers to himself as "the count of Egisheim, called of Moha". Finally, in a document from Sint-Truiden Abbey he is called simply the count of Moha.

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