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The Duchy of Limburg or Limbourg was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire. Much of the area of the duchy is today located within Liège Province of Belgium, with a small portion in the municipality of Voeren, an exclave of the neighbouring Limburg Province. Its chief town was Limbourg-sur-Vesdre, in today's Liège Province.
The title "duke of Limburg" was nevertheless revived after the foundation of the new Duchy of Limburg as a result of the Treaty of London in 1839. According to this treaty the new duchy (without the cities of Maastricht and Venlo), was joined to the German Confederation.
The Seven Weeks' War between Austria and Prussia in 1866 led to the collapse of the German Confederation. To clarify the position of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Duchy of Limburg, which were possessions of the Dutch king but also member states of the Confederation, the Second Treaty of London in 1867 affirmed that Limburg was an "integral part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands", while ...
List of counts and dukes of Limburg; List of titles and honours of the Spanish Crown; List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560; Philip the Handsome; Talk:House of Luxembourg; User:JMvanDijk/Sandbox 9; User:JMvanDijk/Sandbox 9/Box 13; Category:Duchy of Limburg; Category:Dukes of Limburg
The Belgian province of Limburg in Flanders (Dutch speaking Belgium) is a region which has had many names and border changes over its long recorded history.Its modern name is a name shared with the neighbouring province of the Netherlands, with which it was for a while politically united (under French and then Dutch rule from 1794 until 1839).
Prior to the end of the 13th century, the lordships were attached to the Duchy of Limburg. In 1283, the last independent ruler of Limburg, Duchess Ermingarde, died, provoking the War of the Limburg Succession. The conflict was concluded with the victory of John I, Duke of Brabant at the Battle of Worringen in 1288. The Duchy of Limburg and its ...
The brothers Willem I and Diederik IV of Limburg-Hohenlimburg Broich succeed their deceased father. Willem I of Gullick, duke of Berg and Ravensberg returns the county of Limburg with the lordship of Broich back as fief of the Duchy of Berg. Also an peace agreement was made with the Cologne Archbishop on March 29, 1402. [12]
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