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  Duchy of Cornwall Charters
This language was not unusual with the greater lords or barons, who, having had a large extent of territories granted to them, in their turn before the Statute of Quia emptores, granted out smaller districts to others, to be held of themselves chiefly by knight's service.
In the case of the Earl of Cornwall who clearly was not an earl palatine, it is impossible to concur in the Duchy statement, and view this act of the Crown as proof of the earl's sovereignty.
The second proposition, which is "that the county was held by the Earls of Cornwall with the rights and prerogatives of a county palatine, as far as regarded the seignory or territorial dominion," is thus shown to be equally without foundation.
www.kernowtgg.co.uk /charterC03.html   (10382 words)

  
  Palatine - LoveToKnow 1911
The exception was the count palatine of the Rhine, who became one of the four lay electors and the most important lay official of the empire.
Owing to the ambiguous application of the word palatine to Odo of Bayeux, it is doubtful whether Kent was ever a palatine county; if so, it was one only for a few years during the i ith century.
In Ireland there were palatine districts, a.id the seven original earldoms of Scotland occupied positions somewhat analogous to that of the English palatine counties.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Palatine   (910 words)

  
  palatine - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Palatine, village, Cook County, northeastern Illinois, a suburb of Chicago; incorporated 1866.
Palatine Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome, located between the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus; according to tradition the site of the earliest...
The facial bones include the two nasal bones, which constitute the upper portion of the bridge of the nose; the two lacrimal bones, which are located...
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 palatine - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Palatine, village, Cook County, northeastern Illinois, a suburb of Chicago; incorporated 1866.
Palatine Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome, located between the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus; according to tradition the site of the earliest...
The facial bones include the two nasal bones, which constitute the upper portion of the bridge of the nose; the two lacrimal bones, which are located...
ca.encarta.msn.com /palatine.html   (178 words)

  
 Lord Baltimore Coinage: Introduction
Lord Baltimore coins were minted in silver in denominations of four, six, and twelve pence.
The obverse of the coins depicted the bust of Lord Calvert, with the legend + CAECILIVS : DNS: TERRAE - MARIAE : & CT.
The use of the cross in the legends is a religious symbol, the Calvert family was Roman Catholic and the Roman Catholic faith was practiced in Maryland (which was named for the Catholic queen Mary).
www.nd.edu /~rarebook/coins/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Baltimore.intro.html   (1090 words)

  
 Just what is a "Palatine"?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Palatines to America is an organization for people researching the origins of their German-speaking ancestors, no matter where they originated.
Palatinate, Or German PFALZ, was, in German history, the lands ofthe count palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Upper Palatinate was located in northern Bavaria, on both sides of the Naab River as it flows south toward the Danube, and extended eastward to the Bohemian Forest.
pw1.netcom.com /~mohlerl/palatine.htm   (487 words)

  
 Lord Baltimore Coinage: Introduction
Lord Baltimore coins were minted in silver in denominations of four, six, and twelve pence.
The obverse of the coins depicted the bust of Lord Calvert, with the legend + CAECILIVS : DNS: TERRAE - MARIAE : & CT.
The use of the cross in the legends is a religious symbol, the Calvert family was Roman Catholic and the Roman Catholic faith was practiced in Maryland (which was named for the Catholic queen Mary).
www.coins.nd.edu /ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Baltimore.intro.html   (1090 words)

  
 Count palatine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Count Palatine is a noble title, used to render several comital styles, in some cases also shortened to Palatine or Paladin, which can have other meanings as well.
The Lotharingian palatines out of the Ezzonian dynasty were important commanders of the imperial army and were often employed during internal and external conflicts (e.g.
Although a palatinate could be rooted for decades into one dynasty, the office of the palatine counts became hereditary only during the 12th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palatine_lord   (914 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Palatine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born in Prague, he was the son of Frederick the Winter King, elector palatine and king of Bohemia, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England.
The region was once under the jurisdiction of the counts palatine (secular princes), who in the 14th century became elector s of the Holy Roman Empire.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the Palatinate was a stronghold of Protestantism.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Palatine&StartAt=1   (712 words)

  
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Palatines to America is an organization for people researching the origins of their German-speaking ancestors, no matter where they originated.
The Upper Palatinate was located in northern Bavaria, on both sides of the Naab River as it flows south toward the Danube, and extended eastward to the Bohemian Forest.
The Palatinate was situated west of the Rhine and north of the French (Alsatian) border.
www.kingwoodcable.com /khelmer/Palatine.html   (4897 words)

  
 The Spickermans: A Palatine Family > The Palatines > Naval Store Scheme
He thought it was necessary that the Palatines be armed with 600 firelocks and bayonets with a proportional quantity of gunpowder and shots since the Palatines would be situated on the frontier.
The Board recommended the hiring of supervisors to reside among the Palatines and oversee their work, and that the hiring would be left up to Hunter because it would depend on how many Palatine settlements would be built.
The Palatines were to repay the government with the produce of their labors in the naval stores.
members.cox.net /jnordyke/palatine/05.html   (1069 words)

  
 Primary Sources: DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF FEUDALISM
And whenever the lord king shall ask me I will cause him to has E similar oaths from my men who were not present with me before the lord king, that is to say from all whom I may have, in good faith, and without evil intention, and similarly the fealty of my town.
To every lord it is allowed to summon his man that he may be at right to him in his court; and even if he is resident at the most distant manor of that honor from which he holds, he shall go to the plea if his lord summons him.
Theft, however, and treason and murder and whatever things are against the Lord and the catholic faith are to be required of or performed by no one; but faith shall be held to all lords, saving the faith of the earlier, and the more to the one of which he is the liege.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Feudal1.html   (6556 words)

  
 The Poor Palatines by Gene Garman
In German history, the Palatinate included those lands which were governed by a "count palatine--a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire."2 Boundaries of the Palatinate varied depending on the political powers and military successes or defeats of its rulers.
Usually identified in terms of an "Upper" and "Lower" Palatinate, the Palatinate includes territories on both sides of the Rhine River between the Main and Neckar tributaries and on both sides of the Naab River.
The first objective of the departing Palatine was simply to escape from the Palatinate, but the ultimate goal was to find a new life somewhere else on the earth.
www.cjnetworks.com /~ggarman/palatine.html   (4179 words)

  
 Prince Palatine
Prince Palatine was an exceptional racehorse in Great Britain during the years just before World War I. He won nearly every important event on the racing calendar--the St. Leger, the Coronation Cup, the Doncaster Cup, the Jockey Club Cup, the Eclipse Stakes, and the Ascot Gold Cup, twice.
Prince Palatine had attracted the attention of breeder S.B. Joel, and a deal was struck between him and Pilkington, with the assistance of Somerville Tattersall, to sell the son of Persimmon to Joel for £45,000, at the time the heaviest price ever paid for a Thoroughbred.
Prince Palatine was not recognized as a stallion of importance until years after his death, when grandson Prince Rose and his descendants, and the descendants of Prince Palatine's daughters garnered attention.
www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/PrincePalatine.html   (2409 words)

  
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The Lords of Seigniories and Baronies shall have power only of granting Estates, not exceeding three lives or one and thirty years, in two thirds of the said Seigniories or Baronies; and the remaining third shall be always Demesne.
Whoever is Lord of Leet men shall, upon the marriage of a Leet man or Leet woman of his, give them ten Acres of Land for their lives, they paying to him therefor one eighth of all the yearly increase and growth of the said acres.
Article 32 was revised to read as follows: The Palatine's Court shall consist of the Palatine and Seven Proprietors, wherein nothing shall be acted without the presence and consent of the Palatine, or his Deputy, and three others of the Proprietors, or their deputies.
library.law.unc.edu /research/historical_documents/scan1a.txt   (3692 words)

  
 Colonial Maryland
With the founding of Maryland came the first permanent proprietary government of America, that is, a government by a lord proprietor, who, holding his authoriity by virtue of a royal charter, nevertheless exercised that authority almost as an independent sovereign.
These districts or manors were often called palatinates or counties palatine, because the lord dwelled in a palace, or wielded the power of the king in his palace.
The new colony as set forth in the charter was bounded on the north by the fortieth parallel, and on the south by the southern bank of the Potomac, while the western boundary was to be the meridian passing through the source of that river.
www.usahistory.info /southern/Maryland.html   (2853 words)

  
 The Poor Palatines by Gene Garman
In German history, the Palatinate included those lands which were governed by a "count palatine--a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire."2 Boundaries of the Palatinate varied depending on the political powers and military successes or defeats of its rulers.
Usually identified in terms of an "Upper" and "Lower" Palatinate, the Palatinate includes territories on both sides of the Rhine River between the Main and Neckar tributaries and on both sides of the Naab River.
The first objective of the departing Palatine was simply to escape from the Palatinate, but the ultimate goal was to find a new life somewhere else on the earth.
www.sunnetworks.net /~ggarman/palatine.html   (4179 words)

  
 Palatines of the Rhine
The Palatines have played so important a part in the settlement and development of the Mohawk Valley, to which they came about 1720, from the Hudson River settlements and the Schoharie Valley, and because they almost wholly made up the Committee -of Safety of Tryon County and the forces that won the.
The term "Palatine" (in use in America over three centuries) in English and early colonial history meant a "lord" or "proprietor." In the times of the Merovingian Kings, the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul (fifth to eighth centuries) was an officer called "comespaltii," who was the master of the royal household.
And it came to pass that many of the Palatines of the Rhine, tenacious of personal liberty, as their Teutonic forefathers were, and emulating their Puritan predecessors, who a century before fled the violence of persecution in the old land, began to dream of liberty and freedom to worship God in' another land.
www.threerivershms.com /Palatines.htm   (1549 words)

  
 Historical Account of the Castle of Lea, Queen's County - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy
By this opposition of his brave and faithful servant, O'Moore escaped, and the castle of Lea was taken possession of by the Lord Deputy, and retained for the Crown, but the garrison being at length all withdrawn, the O'Dempseys' and O'Connors' took possession of it.
In the year 1554, the Lord Deputy, Thomas, Earl of Sussex, having re-conquered from the O'Meara's, O'Dempsey's and O'Connor's, Lea, Offalia, Irrac, and Glenmalire, the castle of Lea was taken possession of for the Crown.
On the morrow, however, the siege was raised by Lord Lisle, son to the Earl of Leicester, and the courageous lady delivered from her honourable, but dangerous and unpleasant post.
www.irishmidlandsancestry.com /content/laois/community/lea_castle.htm   (2269 words)

  
 William Marshall
In 1173, William Marshal knighted the young Henry, and thereby became Henry's lord in chivalry.
Isabel brought to Marshal the palatine lordships of Pembroke and Striguil in Wales and the lordship of Leinster in Ireland.
A palatine lord's word was law within his lands.
www.castlewales.com /marshall.html   (2740 words)

  
 Chrysostom
For the Lord is gracious and receives the last even as the first.
The Lord gives rest to those who come at the eleventh hour, even as to those who toiled from the beginning.
The Lord put hell in turmoil even as it tasted of his flesh.
www.thewords.com /articles/chrysostom.htm   (433 words)

  
 Palatine Emigration
By early April, the land was still frozen and most of the Palatines' vines had been killed by the bitter weather.
As the people considered their future, the older ones remembered that, in 1677, William Penn had visited the area, encouraging the people to go to Pennsylvania in America, a place where a man and his family could be free of the problems they were now encountering.
The Duke of Marlborough was assigned by Queen Anne to transport the immigrants to England.
www.cc.utah.edu /~pdp7277/palatine.html   (990 words)

  
 Companies of players - Shakespeare in quarto
The company known as Lord Howard’s Men was formed in 1576 by Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham.
Lord Strange’s Men are linked to the first performances of Shakespeare’s Richard III and Henry VI, Part 2.
In 1593, Lord Strange became 5th Earl of Derby and his players were then known as Derby’s Men.
www.bl.uk /treasures/shakespeare/companies.html   (664 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Treaty of Westphalia
Secondly, that all the Lower Palatinate, with all and every the Ecclesiastical and Secular Lands, Rights and Appurtenances, which the Electors and Princes Palatine enjoy'd before the Troubles of Bohemia, shall be fully restor'd to him; as also all the Documents, Registers and Papers belonging thereto; annulling all that hath been done to the contrary.
Further, to ease the Lord Charles Lewis, in some measure, of the trouble of providing his Brothers with Appenages, his Imperial Majesty will give order that forty thousand Rixdollars shall be paid to the said Brothers, in the four ensuing Years; the first commencing with the Year 1649.
That the said Lord Charles Lewis shall give no trouble to the Counts of Leiningen and of Daxburg, nor to their Successors in the Lower Palatinate; but he shall let them peaceably enjoy the Rights obtain'd many Ages ago, and confirm'd by the Emperors.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/westphal.htm   (3468 words)

  
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The charter contains a reservation of faith and allegiance to the crown, as having the supreme dominion; and the will and pleasure of the crown is signified, that the religion of the Church of England be professed, and its ecclesiastical government established in the province.
But all the powers of government, so granted, were to be subordinate to the "power and regement" of the lords commissioners for foreign plantations for the time being.
The Palatine also had authority to make ordinances for the government of the province, under certain restrictions; and a grant of full admiralty powers, subject to that of the Lord High Admiral of England.
www.constitution.org /js/js_106.htm   (267 words)

  
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Cowering over the embers of a half-extinct fire in a miserable hovel, the lord of a country, which in time of peace had yielded an annual rental of "40,000 golden pieces," was despatched by the hands of common soldiers, without pity, or time, or hesitation.
Lord Grey, of Wilton, on reaching Dublin in August of that year, obtained information of this gathering, and determined to strike a decisive blow in Wicklow, before proceeding to the South.
Lord Thomond and the President, taking the alarm, plied their spurs, and were but too glad to escape.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/phrl210.txt   (20500 words)

  
 Welcome to the Renaissance Kingdoms
Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Kendal and Appleby are in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Stafford and Chester are respectively the capitals of the County of Stafford and the County Palatine of Chester.
Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Coventry, Lichfield and Derby are in the County of Stafford and Holywell and Beeston, in the County Palatine of Chester.
www.renaissancekingdoms.com   (1612 words)

  
 A Richer Dust - The Descent of Hughes
The Palatinate of Durham was ruled by the Bishop of Durham, who was known as the Prince-Bishop of Durham, reflecting the fact that palatine lords were legally princes of their domains, from which the royal authority was excluded (although the lord of the palatinate still owed allegiance to his sovereign).
According to Burke's 'Extinct Peerage', the Palatine Earldom of Chester was granted by William the Conqueror in 1070 to Hugh de Abrincis (d'Avranches), otherwise 'Hugh Lupus' or 'Hugh the Fat', 'to hold as freely by the sword as the King himself held England by the crown', that is with complete royal jurisdiction.
Earls and bishops palatine (in England) and lords of regality (in Scotland) had the right to create their own barons; that is, effectively, to create franchise (baronial) jurisdictions out of their own fanchise (regality) jurisdiction.
www.peerage.org /genealogy/page2.htm   (9241 words)

  
 A Richer Dust - The Descent of Hughes
The Palatinate of Durham was ruled by the Bishop of Durham, who was known as the Prince-Bishop of Durham, reflecting the fact that palatine lords were legally princes of their domains, from which the royal authority was excluded (although the lord of the palatinate still owed allegiance to his sovereign).
According to Burke's 'Extinct Peerage', the Palatine Earldom of Chester was granted by William the Conqueror in 1070 to Hugh de Abrincis (d'Avranches), otherwise 'Hugh Lupus' or 'Hugh the Fat', 'to hold as freely by the sword as the King himself held England by the crown', that is with complete royal jurisdiction.
Earls and bishops palatine (in England) and lords of regality (in Scotland) had the right to create their own barons; that is, effectively, to create franchise (baronial) jurisdictions out of their own fanchise (regality) jurisdiction.
www.happywarrior.org /genealogy/page2.htm   (9265 words)

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