County Palatine of Lancaster

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county palatine historic jurisdiction

The County Palatine of Lancaster was a historic English jurisdiction in the northwest of England with semi-autonomous legal and administrative powers traditionally associated with the Duchy of Lancaster.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
County Palatine of Lancaster canonical	3
County of Lancaster	2
County Palatine of Lancaster (later development of his estates)	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	county palatine ⓘ historic jurisdiction ⓘ
appliesTo	certain property and revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ
associatedWith	Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ
country	Kingdom of England ⓘ
createdBy	Kingdom of England ⓘ surface form: English Crown
createdFor	Duke of Lancaster ⓘ
distinctFrom	Lancashire County Council ⓘ surface form: administrative county of Lancashire Cumbria ⓘ surface form: ceremonial county of Cumbria Merseyside ⓘ surface form: ceremonial county of Merseyside Greater Manchester ⓘ surface form: metropolitan county of Greater Manchester
existedWithin	English common law system ⓘ
governedBy	chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ ducal council ⓘ
hasAssociation	House of Lancaster ⓘ Lancastrian kings of England ⓘ
hasCapital	Lancaster ⓘ
hasCourt	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ surface form: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s court Lancaster palatine courts ⓘ
hasHistoricalFunction	regional governance for northwest England under ducal authority ⓘ
hasJurisdictionOver	civil law (historically) ⓘ criminal law (historically) ⓘ
hasMonarch	monarch of England ⓘ monarch of the United Kingdom ⓘ
hasPrivilege	appointment of local officers by the duke ⓘ independent administration of justice ⓘ local fiscal rights ⓘ separate courts of law ⓘ
hasSymbol	Red Rose of Lancaster ⓘ surface form: red rose of Lancaster
hasTitleHolder	British monarch ⓘ surface form: British sovereign Duke of Lancaster ⓘ
hasTypeOfAutonomy	administrative autonomy ⓘ judicial autonomy ⓘ
historicalRegion	Lancashire ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalStatus	palatine jurisdiction ⓘ semi-autonomous ⓘ
legalTradition	English law ⓘ
modernLegacy	Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ surface form: Duchy of Lancaster estates Lancashire ⓘ surface form: ceremonial county of Lancashire title "County Palatine of Lancaster" in UK law ⓘ
namedAfter	Lancaster ⓘ
overlaps	Lancashire ⓘ surface form: historic county of Lancashire
partOf	England ⓘ North West England ⓘ
sovereignty	ultimately subject to the English Crown ⓘ
timePeriod	Middle Ages ⓘ early modern period ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: County Palatine of Lancaster
Description of subject: The County Palatine of Lancaster was a historic English jurisdiction in the northwest of England with semi-autonomous legal and administrative powers traditionally associated with the Duchy of Lancaster.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Duke of Lancaster → hasTerritorialAssociation → County Palatine of Lancaster ⓘ

House of Lancaster → territory → County Palatine of Lancaster ⓘ

Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster → associatedWith → County Palatine of Lancaster ⓘ

this entity surface form: County of Lancaster

Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby → jurisdiction → County Palatine of Lancaster ⓘ

Edmund of Lancaster → associatedWith → County Palatine of Lancaster ⓘ

this entity surface form: County Palatine of Lancaster (later development of his estates)

Earl of Lancaster, created 1267 → jurisdiction → County Palatine of Lancaster ⓘ

subject surface form: Earl of Lancaster (1267 creation)

this entity surface form: County of Lancaster