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  • He tried to obtain a chair in Heidelberg, where he took part in his first Protestant communion; despite this, the other professors refused him the chair that had been promised to him by the Count Palatine, Fredrick III.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • "No," she replied, "I am not illegitimate; the young Count Palatine married my mother, who is of the house of Gehlen."

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • I will tell you, moreover, that you lie when you say that the Count Palatine married your mother; she is a —— -, and the Count has married her no more than a hundred others have done; I know her lawful husband is a hautboy-player.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • But that same day, on the opposite shore of the Main, the Count Palatine of the Rhine and the Archbishop of Cologne elected Frederick of Austria to the same high rank.

    The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

  • = The _Duke Cassimere_ here spoken of was John Casimir, Count Palatine, who in the autumn of 1575 entered into alliance with the Huguenots and invaded France, but, after suffering a check at the hands of the Duke of Guise, made a truce and retired.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • "No," she replied, "I am not illegitimate; the young Count Palatine married my mother, who is of the house of Gehlen."

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Germany -- the Count Palatine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Marquis of

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • The reading 'Sun' is supported by a phrase in Donne's Epithalamion ... on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine, 1613, possibly the date of Wotton's song.

    Notes: Love Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

  • In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker; but, he! why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan’s, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if a throstle sing, he falls straight a-capering; he will fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.

    Act I. Scene II. The Merchant of Venice 1914

  • Arbo, Count Palatine in Laubenthal, and Adela, and one of the most important churchmen of his time.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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