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  • noun Plural form of palsgrave.

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  • Around the king gathered a court of administrative nobles and clergymen- the seneschal or head of the palace, the “count palatine”or chief justice, the “palsgraves”or judges of the palace court, and a hundred scholars, servants, and clerks.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2009

  • Around the king gathered a court of administrative nobles and clergymen- the seneschal or head of the palace, the “count palatine”or chief justice, the “palsgraves”or judges of the palace court, and a hundred scholars, servants, and clerks.

    Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Around the king gathered a court of administrative nobles and clergymen- the seneschal or head of the palace, the “count palatine”or chief justice, the “palsgraves”or judges of the palace court, and a hundred scholars, servants, and clerks.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Boasting themselves as gifts of gratitude or invocation from emperors and popes, kings, princes, palsgraves, and all the other minor thrones and dominions of the earth, these splendid offerings form the most plausible illustration of the miraculous power attributed to the image of the Black Lady, which has been deposited in its actual abode since the year of Grace 696.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various

  • The patroons in New York were in 1750 little more than great land-owners; the fanciful system of landgraves, palsgraves, and caciques in Carolina never had any substance.

    Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 Albert Bushnell Hart 1898

  • _palsgraves_, or _counts palatine_, -- royal officers who superintended the domains of the king in the several duchies, and dispensed justice in his name.

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

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