Starting Population     230                     % of Worldwide          1.1%                    

                                                Population                                      

Starting Income         3,828                   % of Worldwide          0.6%                    

                                                Income                                          

Starting GDP            33,122                  % of Worldwide GDP      0.5%                    

Starting Surplus        349                     % of Worldwide          1.1%                    

                                                Surplus                                         

9 fiefs in province                             Overlord:               de Baveaux (83)
         

Kingdom: HRE:Germany

Comments: Hainaunt, variously spelled Hainault or Hainaut, is a duchy in northwestern Germany, along the frontier of French Flanders. It was originally a part of the Roman province of Germania Inferior. Overrun by the Franks in the 5th century, on the division of Charlemagne's Empire it passed first to Lothringia and then to the Eastern Frankish Kingdom, which became the Holy Roman Empire. By the 10th century it was a county within the Duchy of Lothringia, later passing to Lower Lothringia. In 1191 the counts acquired Flanders through marriage. In 1204 Count Baldwin VI became the 'Latin Emperor' of Constantinople. Late in the same century the county was divided among Baldwin's great-grandsons, Flanders going to Guy of Dampierre and Hainault to John of Avesnes. Hainaunt is subject to the religious authority of the Archbishop of Reims. It a rich province, with much commerce and industry, including clothmaking, while also highly productive agriculturally.