Duchy of Limburg
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Herzogtum Limburg (de) Duché de Limbourg (fr) Hertogdom Limburg (nl) |
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State of the Holy Roman Empire part of the Burgundian Netherlands (1430–1482) part of the Habsburg Netherlands (1482–1581) part of the Southern Netherlands (1581–1795) |
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.svg) Duchy of Limburg around 1350.
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| Capital | Limbourg | |||||||||
| Languages | Limburgish, Low Dietsch, Walloon | |||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
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| • | 1065–82 | Waleran I, Count of Limburg | ||||||||
| • | 1082–1119 | Henry I, Duke of Limburg and Lower Lorraine | ||||||||
| • | 1288–94 | John I, Duke of Brabant, Limburg and Lothier | ||||||||
| • | 1494–1506 | Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, King of Castile–León etc | ||||||||
| • | 1792–1794 | Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Holy Roman Emperor etc | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Established | 1065 | ||||||||
| • | Passed to Brabant | June 5, 1288 | ||||||||
| • | Passed to Burgundy | 1406 | ||||||||
| • | Peace of Westphalia | 1648 | ||||||||
| • | Treaty of Utrecht | 1713 | ||||||||
| • | Annexed by France | 1795 | ||||||||
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The Duchy of Limburg or Limbourg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. Its main territory including the capital Limbourg is today located within the Belgian province of Liège, with a small part in the neighbouring province of Belgian Limburg, within the east of Voeren.
From about 1020, Limburg Castle served as the residence of the Counts of Limburg, who in 1100 adopted the ducal title (Herzog in German, Hertog in Dutch) as Dukes of Lower Lorraine, one of the most important and ancient titles in this part of the empire. The extinction of the line in 1283 sparked the War of the Limburg Succession, whereafter Limburg was ruled by the Dukes of Brabant in personal union, eventually being grouped together with the Brabantian "Overmaas" territories bordering it (including Dalhem, Valkenburg, and Hertogenrade), to be one of the Seventeen Provinces of the Burgundian Netherlands. Unlike other parts of this province, the lands of the duchy stayed intact within the Southern Netherlands, under Habsburg control, after the divisions caused by the Eighty Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. However finally, after the failed Brabant Revolution in 1789, the duchy's history was terminated with the occupation by French Revolutionary troops in 1793. These lands were reunited within modern Belgium only after World War I.
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