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" Palace " meaning " government " can be recognized in a remark of Paul the Deacon, writing ca.

AD 790 and describing events of the 660s: " When Grimuald set out for Beneventum, he entrusted his palace to Lupus " ( Historia Langobardorum, V. xvii ).

At the same time, Charlemagne was consciously reviving the Roman expression in his " palace " at Aachen, of which only his chapel remains.

In the 9th century, the " palace " indicated the housing of the government too, and the constantly-travelling Charlemagne built fourteen.

In the early Middle Ages, the palas was usually that part of an imperial palace ( or Kaiserpfalz ), that housed the Great Hall, where affairs of state were conducted ; it continued to be used as the seat of government in some German cities.

In the Holy Roman Empire the powerful independent Electors came to be housed in palaces ( Paläste ).

This has been used as evidence that power was widely distributed in the Empire ; as in more centralized monarchies, only the monarch's residence would be a palace.