Editing Count (section)

==== In the Low Countries ====
Apart from various small ones, significant were:
* in present-day Belgium:
** [[Count of Flanders]] (Vlaanderen in Dutch), but only the small part east of the river Schelde remained within the empire; the far larger west, an original French [[comté-pairie]] became part of the French realm
** [[Count of Hainaut]]
** [[Count of Namur]], later a margraviate
** [[Count of Leuven]] (Louvain), later a dukedom
** [[Count of Loon]]
* in the presentday Netherlands:
** [[Count of Guelders]] later Dukes of Guelders
** [[Count of Holland]]
** [[Count of Zeeland]]
** [[Count of Zutphen]]