A county palatine is an area ruled by a
count palatine (or
earl palatine, who may hold the higher title of
duke) with special authority and autonomy from the rest of the kingdom. In
feudal times, counts palatine exercised royal authority, and ruled their counties largely independently of the king, though they owed allegiance to him. In
England today there are three counties which are formally palatine counties, namely,
County Durham,
Cheshire and
Lancashire.
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