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There were also prince-bishops in the Rhineland, who were often in the later Middle Ages
and Renaissance depicted in full plate armour over which they wore a cope and mitre and
carried a crozier.
Cheers,
Jim
On 28 Jul 2009 at 13:41, John Briggs wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> 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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