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landgrave|ˈlændgreɪv|
Also 6 langrave, 6–7 lantgrave, 7 landtgrave. β. 6 lan(t)z-, landisgrave, 7 lants-, landsgrave.
[a. MHG. lantgrâve (G. landgraf) = MLG. landgrave (Du. landgraaf): see land n.1 and grave n.4]
In Germany, a count having jurisdiction over a territory, and having under him several inferior counts; later, the title of certain German princes.
1516Fabyan's Chron. (1811) II. vii. 328 After the deth of hir husbonde, Langraue, duke of Thorynge in Almayne. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 57 b, Then was he led to Duke George of Saxonie, and to the Lantzgrave. 1616J. Wheler in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 179 A daughter of the Lantsgrave of Hessen. 1656Blount Glossogr., Landgrave, or Landsgrave. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 78 The Lantgrave of Darmstadt. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour II. 421 Hanau had formerly counts of its own, but the last of them dying in 1736 without issue, it devolved to the landgrave of Hesse Cassel. 1839Penny Cycl. XI. 192/1 The Temporal princes were:—the archduke of Austria..the landgraves of Hessen-Cassel and Hessen-Darmstadt..the landgrave of Leuchtenburg [etc.].
†b. In the colony of Carolina (see quots.). Obs.
1702S. Carolina Stat. (1836) I. 42 The upper house, consisting of the Landgraves and Casiques..are..a middle state between Lords and Commons. 1707J. Archdale Carolina 13 They are there by Patent, under the Great Seal of the Provinces, call'd Landgraves and Cassocks, in lieu of Earls and Lords.
Hence ˈlandgraveship = landgraviate. ˈlandgravess = landgravine.
1669Locke Dft. Constit. Carolina xii. in 33rd D. K. R. 259 Upon y⊇ devolution of any landgraveship or cassiqueship. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Crit. Hist. 107 At Jena in the Landgraveship of Thuring. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 429 Caroline Christina, who had been espoused Landgravess of Hesse-Philipsthal. Ibid. V. 504 Christina Magdalena, Landgravess-dowager to Hesse-Homburg. 1809Southey Q. Rev. II. 329 The Landgraveship with which Locke had been requited for his legislative labours. |