What is "palatines"

Usage examples of "palatines".

The Palatines were one of the elite formations the Emperor was forming as a central field army.

Because the Palatines were an elite, it was all the more frustrating to Perennius that the younger of the guards had not bothered to wear his body armor.

The march might be a girdle of lawless palatines, only elusively within reach of the King's justice, but the shadow of royal displeasure was at least a curb there.

The rest, even Ranulf of Chester, still saw only their own palatines, and built at them and fought off encroachments on them feverishly, looking no farther.

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 honors into palatines, and set up kingdoms of their own.

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 honors into palatines, and set up kingdoms of their own.

Most of the Palatines who had no money at all couldn't even afford to emigrate.

Today the Swiss Guard was the most elite of Pax Fleet's regular forces, the Palatines had been reinstated only a year earlier by Pope Julius XIV, and now Pope Urban appeared to be relying upon this strange brotherhood of the new Noble Guard for his personal safety.