Editing Palatine (section)

===Modern era===
In Early Modern Britain, the term ''palatinate'', or [[county palatine]], was also applied to counties of lords who could exercise powers normally reserved to the crown.<ref>Palatine, ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Ultimate Reference Suite.  Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008.</ref> Likewise, there were palatine provinces among the English colonies in North America: [[Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore]], was granted palatine rights in [[Maryland]] in 1632, as were the proprietors of [[the Carolinas]] in 1663.<ref>John Krugler, ''English and Catholic, the Lords Baltimore in the seventeenth century'', Baltimore 2004.</ref> And although with tongue in cheek, legal historian John Phillip Reid once asked if the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] jurisdiction of "[[Rupert's Land]] can be analogized to a county palatine".<ref>JP Reid, "The Layers of Western Legal History", in McLaren, Foster and Ortloff, ''Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver'', 1992.</ref> His question is yet to receive serious scholarly attention.

In 19th-century [[Germany]], ''Paladin'' was an official rank and considered an honorary title for a man in the service of his emperor. It was a [[knight]] with additional honors, they were entitled to exercise powers normally reserved to the crown.<ref>Brockhaus, ''ibidem''.</ref> In [[Nazi Germany]], [[Hermann Göring]] was also given the title "Paladin", referring to the tradition of a title that made the bearer second to the monarch.<ref>Stefan Marthens, ''Erster Paladin des Führers und Zweiter Mann im Reich'', Paderborn 1985, {{ISBN|3-506-77474-3}}.</ref><ref>Wolfgang Paul, ''Hermann Goering: Hitler's Paladin or Puppet?'', London 1998, {{ISBN|1-85409-429-7}}.</ref>