This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "County Palatine of Durham" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(March 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge
883–1836
Coat of arms
The wards and exclaves of the palatinate. Bedlingtonshire was part of Chester-le-Street Ward, and Craikshire was part of Darlington Ward.
Status
Prince-Bishopric
Capital
Durham
History
• Community of St Cuthbert established
684
• Move to Chester-le-Street; Lands granted south of Tyne
883
• Move to Durham
995
• Bishops' palatine powers recognised
1293
• The Act of Resumption curtails civil and judicial independence in the palatinate
1537
• Durham returns its first members to Parliament
1654
• Tenures Abolition Act ends the bishop's rights as chief feudal lord in the Palatinate
1660
• County Palatine formally dissolved
1836
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Liberty of Durham
County Durham
The former exchequer on Palace Green, Durham, (right) is the only surviving medieval administrative building of the palatinate. It was built by Robert Neville, bishop 1438–57.[1]
The County Palatine of Durham was a jurisdiction in the North of England, within which the bishop of Durham had rights usually exclusive to the monarch. It developed from the Liberty of Durham, which emerged in the Anglo-Saxon period. The gradual acquisition of powers by the bishops led to Durham being recognised as a palatinate by the late thirteenth century, one of several such counties in England during the Middle Ages. The county palatine had its own government and institutions, which broadly mirrored those of the monarch and included several judicial courts. From the sixteenth century the palatine rights of the bishops were gradually reduced, and were finally abolished in 1836. The last palatine institution to survive was the court of chancery, which was abolished in 1972.
The palatine included the contemporary ceremonial county of Durham except southern Teesdale, the parts of Tyne and Wear south of the Tyne, and had exclaves in Northumberland and North Yorkshire around the island of Lindisfarne and the settlements of Bedlington, Norham, and Crayke.
^"Palace Green Library". Durham World Heritage Site. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
and 23 Related for: County Palatine of Durham information
Durham had their own courts of chancery. (See Court of Chancery of the CountyPalatineof Lancaster and Court of Chancery of the CountyPalatineof Durham...
Bishops ofDurham, who for centuries governed Durham as a countypalatine (the CountyPalatineofDurham) outside the usual structure ofcounty administration...
already been created Baron Durham, of the City ofDurham and of Lambton Castle in the CountyPalatineofDurham, in 1828. He was created Viscount Lambton at...
Court of Chancery of the CountyPalatineofDurham and Sadberge was a court of chancery that exercised jurisdiction within the CountyPalatineofDurham (including...
Court of the United States. The family's roots can be traced back to the 12th century in Washington, in the historic CountyPalatineofDurham in northern...
in Durham Region Durham Bridge, New Brunswick Durham Parish, New Brunswick Durham-Sud, Quebec (also known as South Durham) CountyPalatineofDurham, a...
liberty ofDurham and later the countypalatineofDurham. The bishop, with the bishop of Bath and Wells, escorts the sovereign at the coronation. Durham Castle...
The history ofCountyDurham. Remains of Prehistoric Durham include a number of Neolithic earthworks. The Crawley Edge Cairns and Heathery Burn Cave are...
Court of Pleas of the CountyPalatineofDurham and Sadberge, sometimes called the Court of Pleas or Common Pleas of or at Durham was a court of common...
one of which was the earldom of Northumberland, with others like the earldoms of York and numerous autonomous liberties such as the CountyPalatineof Durham...
Ravensworth, of Ravensworth Castle in the CountyPalatineofDurham and of Eslington Park in the Countyof Northumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United...
counties. Most of Cumberland, Westmorland, and the entirety of the CountyPalatineofDurham and Northumberland were omitted. They did not pay the national...
Kingdom of Scotland while the portion south of the Tweed was absorbed into the Kingdom of England as the countyof Northumberland and CountyPalatineof Durham...
of Jarrow. Still, people born in Bedlington or the other parts of old North Durham, had birth certificates issued with the CountyPalatineofDurham printed...
The Court of the CountyofDurham was a court that exercised jurisdiction within the CountyPalatineofDurham. It was abolished, subject to certain savings...
the CountyPalatineofDurham to send knights and burgesses to serve in Parliament, which recites, whereas the inhabitants of the CountyPalatineof Durham...
Global Information
