Palatine Guard

The Palatingarde was next to the Swiss Guards, the Noble Guard and the Gendarmerie Corps of the Vatican City one of the four Papal Guards.

Their armament consisted of rifles and pistols. In contrast to the Nobel and gendarmerie guard she was never mounted. It consisted of more than 500 citizens of the city of Rome and was named after the Palatine Hill in Rome.

In 1969 she was - together with the Noble Guard - by Pope Paul VI. dissolved.