from Jean d'Outremeuse's Ly Myreur des Histors, which contains many false stories about the counts of Huy. In the eleventh century, the bishops seem to have appointed lay counts to act on their behalf, a power specifically granted them in 985. The first episcopal count was probably Herman, count of Ename, who retired to a monastery in 1025 and died in 1029. On 19 April 1028, a charter of the Emperor Conrad II indicates that Gozelo of Behogne was governing the county, presumably under the suzerainty of the bishop. Although Gozelo also held other counties, he resided at the castle of Huy or at Rochefort in the county of Huy. When Gozelo died in 1064, the county seems to have been divided between his sons. Conon, the eldest, received a portion that included Vaux-et-Borset as his hereditatis portio (hereditary portion). The citizens of Huy, by this time enriched through trade, organized themselves as a commune. They were enfranchised by Bishop Theoduin in 1066, receiving several privileges regarding military obligations and castle-guard. This indicates that the county of Huy had not passed entirely to Gozelo's heirs. Unlike his father, Conon resided not in Huy but in Montaigu. The episcopal county of Huy expanded southwards in the eleventh century into the pagus of the Famenne (e.g., Wiesme) and the Ardennes (e.g., Smuid). Power over its outlying districts, however, was gradually lost to the counts of Namur. The county of Huy continued as an administrative division of the lands of the bishop of Liège until the end of the eleventh century. List of counts The dates given are the first and last known dates of their countships and not necessarily the actual beginning and end. The Belgian historian Léon Vanderkindere identified Count Erenfrid with Ansfrid the Elder, the uncle of the future Count Ansfrid. This identification, however, appears unlikely. c. 892 Mengold (possibly) 943–958/9 Erenfrid (Ansfrid I) 963–975 Folcuin 975–985 Ansfrid (II) 1013–1025 Herman 1028–1064 Gozelo 1064–1066 Conon (possibly) References Further reading Dierkens, Alain. "Les Ansfrid et le comté de Huy au Xe siècle". Annales du cercle hutois des sciences et beaux-arts, 31 (1987): pp. 55–77. Joris, André. La ville de Huy au moyen âge: des origines à la fin du XIVe siècle. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1959. Nonn, Ulrich. Pagus und Comitatus in Niederlothringen: Untersuchungen zur politischen Raumgliederung im früheren Mittelalter. Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1983. Huy Counties of the Holy Roman Empire