palsgrave

[ pawlz-greyv, palz- ]

/ ˈpɔlz greɪv, ˈpælz- /

a German count palatine.

Origin of palsgrave

1540–50; < early Dutch paltsgrave (now paltsgraaf); cognate with German Pfalzgraf imperial count. See margrave, palatine¹

The third draft is in Cromwell's hand, corrected by Palsgrave.

The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times |Kathleen Lambley
Palsgrave declares that he suffered much, when in the North, from poverty and calumny.

The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times |Kathleen Lambley
Way rightly explains masty as 'glutted with acorns or berries'; cf. 'Acorne, mast for swyne, gland,' in Palsgrave.

Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) |Geoffrey Chaucer
Palsgrave has—'I waxe eluysshe, nat easye to be dealed with, Ie deuiens mal traictable.'

Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales |Geoffrey Chaucer

From this we may conclude that Palsgrave was continuing the studies he had begun at an earlier date at the University of Paris.

The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times |Kathleen Lambley

palsgrave

/ (ˈpɔːlzɡreɪv) /

archaic a German count palatine

palsgravine (ˈpɔːlzɡrəˌviːn), fem n

C16: from Dutch, from Middle Dutch paltsgrave, from palts estate of a palatine + grave count