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margrave Hist.|ˈmɑːgreɪv|
Also 6 mergrave, 6–8 marc-, 7–9 markgrave, 9 mar(k)graf.
[a. MDu. markgrave (mod.Du. markgraaf), = OHG. marcgrâvo (MHG. markgrâve, mod.G. markgraf), lit. ‘count of a mark or border territory’: see mark n.1 and grave n.4 Cf. med.L. margrāvius, F. margrave.]
A German title, orig. given to the military governor of a border province; subsequently the hereditary title of the princes of certain states of the Holy Roman Empire.
Rendered in Latin by marchio; in Fr. and Eng. formerly sometimes by marquis.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. i. (1895) 23 The chiefe and the head of them was the Marcgraue (as they cal him). 1568Grafton Chron. II. 84 All such Rulers of townes or Countries as are nere the sea, are called Mergraue, as at this day in Andwarpe. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1208/2 Christopher prince and margrave of Baden. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 209, 213, 221. 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 236 The Margraue (or Marquis) of Brandeburg is..the last of the Electors, but more powerfull then any of them in the number of Vassals. 1695Lond. Gaz. No. 3130/2 The Margrave of Bareith is still at Amsterdam. 1790Wolcot (P. Pindar) Adv. to Fut. Laureat Wks. 1812 II. 335 Emperors, Electors, dead to hospitality, Margraves and miserable Dukes. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. (1861) I. 472 John van Immerzeel, Margrave of Antwerp.
Hence ˈmargravely, marˈgravial adjs., pertaining to a margrave.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 378 The marggravial territory of Onolzbach. 1865J. Skelton (‘Shirley’) Campaigner at home vii. 136 Many royal, margravely, princely crimes. 1876Tinsley's Mag. XIX. 61 In the grand duchy of Baden, in the fair margravial land. |