The County of Verdun was a sovereign medieval county in the Duchy of Lower Lorraine.

County

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The rulers of the sovereign County of Verdun styled themselves as Counts by the grace of God.[1][2] The small country was located near Lower Lotharingia within the Holy Roman Empire.[3] The Prince-Bishopric of Verdun bordered on it from the east.[3] The Forest of Argonne formed the western border of the county, but it also included the fortresses at Montfaucon-d'Argonne and Vienne-le-Château.[3] According to an imperial diploma issued in 1156, Bishop Haimo of Verdun received the right to appoint counts, but the counts from the Ardennes-Bouillon dynasty made the office hereditary by the end of the 10th century.[4]

List of counts

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In 1134, the bishop deposed Reginald and reattached the county to the episcopal demesne.

References

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  1. ^ Jan, Régine Le; LeJan, Régine (1995). Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle): essai d'anthropologie sociale (in French). Publications de la Sorbonne. ISBN 978-2-85944-268-2.
  2. ^ Jan, Régine Le (May 28, 1995). "Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle): essai d'anthropologie sociale". Publications de la Sorbonne. Retrieved May 28, 2024 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c Murray 2000, p. 12.
  4. ^ Murray 2000, pp. 12–13.

Sources

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  • Murray, Alan V. (2000). The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099–1125. Prosopographica et Geneologica. ISBN 978-1-9009-3403-9.