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elector-palatine

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  • They had refused to follow his leading, but their own choice, Robert, brother of the elector-palatine, did not prove a congenial chief, and the new prelate turned to Philip for aid when he found his chapter disposed to restrict both his revenues and his temporal authority.

    Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

  • They had refused to follow his leading, but their own choice, Robert, brother of the elector-palatine, did not prove a congenial chief, and the new prelate turned to Philip for aid when he found his chapter disposed to restrict both his revenues and his temporal authority.

    Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908

  • Once more the puppet king was accepted as a husband, and this time by the Princess Anne of Neuburg, a daughter of the elector-palatine, and sister of the empress, though, in justice to Anne, it should be said that she was an unwilling bride and merely came as Marie Louise had done -- a sacrifice to political ambition.

    Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

  • Pont-a-Mousson, meet the German re-enforcements, which were being brought up by Prince John Casimir, son of the elector-palatine, and which made

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830

  • I asked the young man if he were called count at the embassy, and he said he bore the title in virtue of a warrant from the elector-palatine.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • I asked the young man if he were called count at the embassy, and he said he bore the title in virtue of a warrant from the elector-palatine.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • I asked the young man if he were called count at the embassy, and he said he bore the title in virtue of a warrant from the elector-palatine.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 26: Spain Giacomo Casanova 1761

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