County of Hainaut

medieval region in current Belgium and France

Key facts

898: Reginar I , (first Reginar count)
Status: County
Capital: Mons
Common languages: French Picard Latin (religious, theological)
Religion: Roman Catholicism
Government: Feudal lordship
1071 98: Baldwin II
1432 67: Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy
1477 82: Mary of Burgundy
1792 97 died 1835: Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (last count)
Historical era: Middle Ages
Consolidation of county: ±880
Annexed by france

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Today part ofBelgium France

The County of Hainaut (/eɪˈnoʊ/ ay-NOH; 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 Valenciennes, now in France.