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County of Namur | |||||||||
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| c. 981–1797 | |||||||||
 Coat of arms
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 The county of Namur within the Low Countries in 1350 | |||||||||
| Status | County of the Frankish and Holy Roman Empires | ||||||||
| Capital | Namur | ||||||||
| Common languages | Walloon, French | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | c. 981 | ||||||||
• Acquired by Hainaut | 1189 | ||||||||
| 1482 | |||||||||
| 1556 | |||||||||
| 1714 | |||||||||
• Sold to Burgundy, joins Burgundian Netherlands | 1429 1797 | ||||||||
• Treaty of Campo Formio: French annexation recognised by Austria | 1797 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Belgium | ||||||||
Namur (Dutch: Namen) was a county of the Carolingian and later Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, a region in northwestern Europe. Its territories largely correspond with the present-day French-speaking Belgian arrondissement Namur together with the northwestern part of the arrondissement Dinant, which are both part of the modern province of Namur. The modern provincial boundaries are based on the French Republican department of Sambre-et-Meuse.