medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Whitehead wrote:
>
> Surely Chester was always a secular palatine jurisdiction under the Norman
> earls, and then under the heir to the throne from the late thirteenth
> century - it was not an ecclesiastical palatinate.
The point is that palatinates are always secular - the Prince Bishops of Durham ruled as Earls of Durham (and appointed the Sheriff). Similarly, the Isle of Ely was a liberty which was erected into a palatinate for its first bishop. But the diocese of Ely extended to the whole of Cambridgeshire, just as the diocese of Durham included the county of Northumberland.
John Briggs
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