palatines

Palatinate of Durham; officials were called palatines, chancellors, high stewards, and admirals.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

When Nadasdy died in 1604, the countess and her estates became a target for covetous noblemen and the Hapsburg rulers of Hungary, Catholics who resented her Protestantism and feared the Bathorys as a powerful family which had produced a celebrated king of Poland and several palatines of Hungary.

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When Nadasdy died in 1604, the countess and her estates became a target for covetous noblemen and the Hapsburg rulers of Hungary, Catholics who resented her Protestantism and feared the Bathorys as a powerful family which had produced a celebrated king of Poland and several palatines of Hungary.

Two films to examine the legend of the 16th-century Hungarian countess 2007

LEWIS: Pan Africanism was the philosophy of the common destiny and purpose of people of African descent, who must begin to work across boundaries, across lines in concert in order to throw off the shackles of imperialism, whether it was the naked variety of actual occupation on land or whether it was the market manipulation of countries by a more powerful northern and European palatines and governments.

W.E.B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 1994

When the king is all too busy in the south, and his mind on where his Flemings 'next pay is to come from, and his energy mostly wasted in wavering from one target to another, ambitious men in remoter parts are liable to begin to spread their honours into palatines, and set up kingdoms of their own.

The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982

Silence, horror, and remorse are around him -- and at this moment the great clock of the palatines strikes two!

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

At this very moment the great clock of the palatines strikes three -- and awakes the old man in the sleeping chamber of his ancestors, stretched at the foot of the escutcheoned chair.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The palatines in England and Germany, whose jurisdiction and authority have been established by time, and whose governments have acquired firmness and stability, would probably have deemed this usurpation illegal and rebellious, and punished the authors and abettors of it.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

It is fastened to the moulding high on the wall; over it sits an ancient monarch in bronze, a ruler of many kingdoms, and at each stroke the statue of a palatine sallies forth, bows to the king of bronze, and again disappears within the opening wall -- twelve strokes toll as they pass, and twelve palatines appear, make obeisance, and vanish.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

While this was under consideration, the proprietors, apparently fully confident of the success of their plan, wished the persons immediately concerned to know about it and on July 28, they "ordered, that the advertisement printed in the gazette for the palatinates 'transportation, be printed in High Dutch, for the use of the poor palatines and the rest of the Germans."

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920