Palatinate

Palatinat (from Latin palatinus "the one in the palace or at court") can mean the following:

Hofpfalzgrafschaft

The Palatinate is a privilege given primarily by the emperor , also by the pope and the Ottoman sultan , to exercise reservation rights, which were listed in detail in the comitiv ( Latin comitiva ). A distinction must be made between

Great Palatinate ( comitiva maior ): not territorially limited, hereditary, with the authority to also appoint Lower Palatinate Counts,
small palatinate ( comitiva minor ): territorially limited, not hereditary.

This younger Hofpfalzgrafenamt is not connected to the older office of the Count Palatine and was only awarded more frequently by the Emperor from the end of the 15th century. The term is derived from the courtly function and dignity of the paladin (Latin: palatinus ).

Palatine County (territorial)

The palatinate (lat .: palatinatus ) is the area of a count palatinate ( comes palatinus ). From the time of the Carolingians , the Count Palatine were chief judges at the courts of kings. Later these offices and the possessions connected with them became hereditary.

Important German palatinates are:

Palatinatus ad Rhenum or Rhenensis ( Rheinpfalz )

Palatinatus superior or Bavariae ( Upper Palatinate in Bavaria )

Palatinatus inferior ( Lower Palatinate or Electoral Palatinate )

Palatinatus Neoburgicus ( Pfalz-Neuburg )

Palatinatus Saxoniae ( Palatine County of Saxony )

Palatinatus Sueviae ( Palatinate County of Swabia ).

Palatinatus Russiae ( Ruthenian Voivodeship , also Red Russia )

literature

For literature on the Hofpfalzgrafenamt see under Hofpfalzgraf

Individual evidence

↑ an imperial comitiv can be found, for example, in the imprint of the comitiv, which formerly ihro kays. Majesty Mr. Ferdinand II. graciously granted the decano of the laudable Faculty of Law in Marburg every time and now your Elector. Philipp Casimir Müller, University Printing Office Marburg 1745, have graciously renewed the transparency of Bavaria as the highest Reichsfürseher at the time

[1] rial comitiv can be found, for example, in the imprint of the comitiv, which formerly ihro kays. Majesty Mr. Ferdinand II. graciously granted the decano of the laudable Faculty of Law in Marburg every time and now your Elector. Philipp Casimir Müller, University Printing Office Marburg 1745, have graciously renewed the transparency of Bavaria as the highest Reichsfürseher at the time