Definition of "palsgrave" []

• See palatine1. (noun)

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• "When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure."
• "The palsgrave of Lorraine, who had his seat at Aachen, was later esteemed the foremost in rank."
• "Long, who became palsgrave (1195-1211); in 1211 he resigned it to his son Henry the Younger, who d. childless (1214)."