- In England,
Wales and
Ireland a
county palatine or
palatinate was an area
ruled by a
hereditary nobleman enjoying special authority and
autonomy from...
- Ireland, and
parts of
British North America referred to
rulers of
counties palatine as
palatines. The
different spellings originate from the
different languages...
-
Until the
Early Modern period the
county was a
comparatively poor backwater,
although in 1351 it
became a
palatine, with a semi-independent
judicial system...
- on
behalf of the king in the
county palatine.
Cheshire in the
Domesday Book (1086) is
recorded as a much
larger county than it is today. It included...
- grantee,
Peter II,
Count of Savoy.
Edward III
raised Lancashire into a
county palatine in 1351, and the holder,
Henry of Grosmont, Edmund's grandson, was...
- sons. The
younger son,
Louis I,
received the
County of Zweibrücken and the
County of Veldenz.
Palatine Zweibrücken
ceased to
exist in 1797 when it was...
- This
article lists counts palatine of Lotharingia,
counts palatine of the Rhine, and
electors of the
Palatinate (German: Kurfürst von der Pfalz), the titles...
- The
County Palatine of
Durham was a
jurisdiction in the
North of England,
within which the
bishop of
Durham had
rights usually exclusive to the monarch...
- r. 1248–1279). The
Counts Palatine[which?] for many
years had to
share power with the
greater feudal families of the
county,
notably with the
family of...
-
jurisdiction or
territory of a
count palatine was a
county palatine or palatinate. In
England the
forms earl
palatine and
palatine earldom are rare alternative...
