The Palace of the Prince-Bishops stands on Place Saint-Lambert in central Liège, Belgium, where its facade closes one end of the square on which the Cathedral of St. Lambert formerly stood. It was the residence of the Prince-Bishops of Liège. Bishop Notger built the first palace around 1000, and fire destroyed it in 1185.
Bishop Érard de La Marck, enthroned in 1505, commissioned the master builder Arnold van Mulken in 1526 to rebuild it, and the work was completed at the end of the 16th century. After a fire in 1734, the Brussels architect Jan Andries Anneessens rebuilt the south facade in the Louis XIV-Regency style. Jean-Charles Delsaux added a west wing in 1849, in the style of the old palace.
The great courtyard has arcaded galleries and 60 massive columns, each with varied decoration. The building now houses Liège's Palace of Justice and the Provincial Palace.
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