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margrave
  1. A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area.
  2. A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The ploy worked and the Anglo-Dutch army united with the armies of the margrave of Baden and Eugene of Savoy.”
      “Seat of the regional government is situated in this town of baroque style. You can find also the ancient seat of the margrave of Ansbach.”
      “Two years later his father appointed him margrave of Moravia and captain general of Bohemia.”
margravine
  1. The wife of a margrave.
  2. A woman with the rank and responsibilities of a margrave.
  3. Examples:
    1. “When the Jenny Haniver lands on Anchorage, Pennyroyal's story also charms the margravine, who immediately turns west to find this Eden.”
      “Words like margravine and landgravine prove nothing, being scarcely naturalised.”
      “It was built by a margravine in 1725, and remains as she left it at her death.”
margravate
  1. A territory governed by a margrave or margravine. [from 18th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “Although Moravia had lost its primacy to Bohemia in the 10th century, becoming a margravate in 1029, it maintained separate musical interests.”
      “The margravate took its name from the town of Brandenburg, west of Berlin.”
      “From 1032 Provence had been a margravate of the Holy Roman Empire in the imperial Kingdom of Burgundy.”
margraviate
  1. Alternative spelling of margravate
  2. Examples:
    1. “Antwerp became a margraviate in 980, by the German emperor Otto II, a border province facing the County of Flanders.”
      “Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg.”
margraviates
  1. plural of margraviate
margravates
  1. plural of margravate
margravines
  1. plural of margravine
margraves
  1. plural of margrave
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