Bentheim-Lingen was a county seated in

Lingen Lingen (), officially Lingen (Ems), is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2008, its population was 52,353, and in addition there were about 5,000 people who registered the city as their secondary residence. Lingen, specifically "Lingen (Ems)" is ...

in Germany. Bentheim-Lingen emerged as a partition of

Bentheim-Tecklenburg Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German county based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History Bentheim-Tecklenburg emerged as a partition of the County of Bentheim in 1277, and was partitioned between it ...

in 1450, and was absorbed by Spain in 1555. Over the next century, ownership of Bentheim-Lingen passed between Spain and

Nassau-Orange The House of Orange-Nassau (Dutch: ''Huis van Oranje-Nassau'', ) is the current reigning house of the Netherlands. A branch of the European House of Nassau, the house has played a central role in the politics and government of the Netherlands ...

, before being annexed by

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

1702.

Counts of Bentheim-Lingen (1450–1555)

*Otto (1450–1508) ''with...'' *Nicholas III ''(Count of

)'' (1493–1508) *Nicholas IV (1508–1541) *Conrad ''(Count of

)'' (1541–1547) *Maximilian (1547–1548) *Anna (1548–1555) {{coord missing, Lower Saxony Counties of the Holy Roman Empire States and territories established in 1450