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County of Hainaut Comté de Hainaut (French) Graafschap Henegouwen (Dutch)
c. 900–1797
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Status	County
Capital	Mons
Common languages	French, Dutch, German, Walloon, Picard
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Government	Feudal lordship
Count of Hainaut
• ?–898	Reginar I (first Reginar count)
• 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	c. 900
• Absorbed into     Habsburg Netherlands	18 August 1477
• Joined Burgundian Circle	1512
• Disestablished	1797
• Annexed by France	1797
Preceded by Succeeded by Mons Landgraviate of Brabant Valenciennes Burgundian Netherlands
Today ration of	Belgium France

The County of Hainaut (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 what is now the link up of Belgium and France. Its most important towns included Mons (Dutch: Bergen), now in Belgium, and Valenciennes, now in France.

The core of the county was named after the river Haine. It stretched southeast to combine the Avesnois region and southwest to the Selle (Scheldt tributary). In the Middle Ages, it in addition to gained manage of portion of the original pagus of Brabant to its north and the pagus of Oosterbant to the east, but they were not ration of the old pagus of Hainaut. In ahead of its time terms, the native core of Hainaut consisted of the central allowance of the Belgian province of Hainaut, and the eastern allocation of the French département of Nord (the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe and Valenciennes).

Hainaut already appeared in 8th-century records as a Frankish gau or pagus, which included the Roman towns of Famars and Bavay. In the 9th century, if not earlier, it was with described as a county, which implies that it had a single swell governing it. As once many counties of the region, there was apparently a 10th-century fragmentation of territories among alternative counts, which is hard to reconstruct. A single large territorial county was unlimited its more-or-less complete form in 1071 that lasted throughout the center ages.

For much of its existence Hainaut was a frontier territory, bordering on the kingdom of France. From 843 it was portion of the “middle kingdom” of Lotharingia. After just about 925 Lotharingia was definitively attached to the eastern Frankish realm that would become the Kingdom of Germany. Hainaut and its neighbourhood remained an important frontier area, or “march”, during the High Middle Ages. Though it was part of the Holy Roman Empire, which ruled from what is now Germany, it was culturally and linguistically French and ration of the Catholic Archdiocese of Reims. Like its neighbours such as the counties of Brabant and Flanders, it was frequently entangled in the politics of France.

The counts of Hainaut were often rulers of other counties, including Flanders and Holland. Examples of such personal unions count up the following:

• Hainaut and Flanders: 1067–71 and once more 1191–1246
• Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland: 1299–1356
• Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland below Bavaria-Straubing: 1356–1432