Editing Prince-bishop (section)

==== Durham ====
{{Main|County Palatine of Durham}}
The [[Bishop of Durham|bishops of Durham]], while not sovereign, held extensive rights usually reserved to the English, and later British, monarch within the county palatine of Durham. In 1075 [[Walcher]], the bishop of Durham, was allowed to purchase the earldom of Northumbria; this marked the beginning of the bishops' temporal powers, which expanded during the Middle Ages before being gradually curbed from the sixteenth century onwards.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dugdale |first1=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mgoHAAAAQAAJ&dq=walcher+purchase+earldom&pg=PA689 |title=England & Wales Delineated (Curiosities of Great Britain). |last2=Burnett. |first2=William |date=1830 |pages=689 |language=en}}</ref> Except for a brief period of suppression during the [[English Civil War]], the bishopric retained some temporal powers until it was abolished by the [[Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836]], when its powers returned to the Crown.<ref name="Britannica">[[wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Durham (county)|"Durham"]]. Encyclopædia Britannica. 11th Ed. Vol 8.</ref><ref>{{cite book |date=1836 |title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eFk0AQAAMAAJ&q=bishop+of+durham+++temporal+Powers+by+Palatine++Act+1836&pg=PA130 |publisher=His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers|page=130}}</ref> The last institution of the palatinate, its [[Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge|court of chancery]], was abolished in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Courts Act 1971, c. 4 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/enacted |access-date=8 June 2023 |website=legislation.gov.uk}}</ref>