The Lords of Ligny, later Counts of Ligny, ruled the fief of Ligny-en-Barrois

Ligny-en-Barrois

Ligny-en-Barrois is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.The town is in the arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc, beside the canal that links the Rivers Rhine and Marne, fifteen kilometres to the south east of Bar le Duc: it is the administrative seat of the canton ...

 during the Middle Ages. In 1240, the seigniory of Ligny-en-Barrois was given by Henry II of Bar

Henry II of Bar

Henry II of Bar alternately Henri II of Bar was a Count of Bar who reigned from 1214 to 1239. He died in Gaza while on Crusade.-Spouse and children:In 1219 he married Philippa de Dreux , the daughter of Robert II of Dreux....

 as the dowry of his daughter Marguerite, who married Henry V of Luxemburg. Henry bestowed it upon his younger son Waleran, who was killed at the Battle of Worringen

Battle of Worringen

The Battle of Worringen was fought on June 5, 1288, near the town of Worringen , which is now the northernmost borough of Cologne...

. In 1364, it was elevated to a county, and remained in the Luxembourg family and their descendants (with an interruption 1476–1510) until 1719, when it was sold to the Duke of Lorraine.

Lords of Ligny

• 1240–1281: Henry
• 1281–1288: Waleran I
  Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny
  Waleram I of Luxembourg was since 1281 Lord of Ligny, Roussy and La Roche.He was the second son of Henry V, Count of Luxembourg and Margaret of Bar....
  
  
• 1288–1303: Henry II
• 1303–1354 Waleran II
• 1354–1364 John I

Counts of Ligny

• 1364–1371 Guy I
  Guy I of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny
  Guy I of Luxembourg-Ligny was Count of Saint-Pol and Count of Ligny, Lord of Roussy and Beauvoir .He was the son of John I and Alix of Dampierre, dame de Richebourg....
  
  
• 1371–1415 Waleran III
  Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny
  Waleran III of Luxembourg , Count of Ligny and Saint Pol, was a French nobleman and soldier.He was the son of Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Mahaut of Châtillon, Countess of Saint Pol. He succeeded his father in 1371, after his death at the Battle of Baesweiler...
  
  
• 1415–1430 Philip
  Philip of Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
  Philip of Saint Pol , younger son of Antoine, Duke of Brabant and Jeanne of Saint-Pol, succeeded his brother John as Duke of Brabant in 1427...
  
  
• 1430–1430 Jeanne
  Jeanne of Luxembourg
  Joan, Countess of Saint-Pol and Ligny , called the Demoiselle de Luxembourg, was the daughter of Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Mahaut of Châtillon, Countess of Saint-Pol....
  
  
• 1430–1440 John II
  John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny
  John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny was a French nobleman and soldier, a younger son of John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir and Marguerite of Enghien....
  
  
• 1440–1475 Louis I
• 1476–1478 Georges de la Trémoille
  Georges de la Trémoille
  Georges de la Trémoille was count of de Guînes from 1398 to 1446 and Grand Chamberlain of France to King Charles VII of France. He sought reconciliation between Philip, Duke of Burgundy and Charles VII during their estrangement in the latter part of the Hundred Years' War...
  
  
• 1481–1487 Louis of Bourbon, Count of Roussillon
• 1487–1510 Charles of Bourbon, Count of Roussillon
• 1510–1519 Anthony I
• 1519–1530 Charles I
• 1530–1557 Anthony II
• 1557–1576 John III
• 1576–1608 Charles II
• 1608–1613 François, duc de Piney-Luxembourg
• 1613–1616 Henri, duc de Piney-Luxembourg
• 1616–1680 Marguerite Charlotte, duchesse de Piney-Luxembourg
• 1680–1701 Madeleine Charlotte, duchesse de Piney-Luxembourg
• 1701–1719 Charles François, duc de Piney-Luxembourg, sold the county to Leopold I, Duke of Lorraine in 1719