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burgrave, burggrave|ˈbɜːgreɪv|
Also 6 burgreve.
[ad. Ger. burggraf, f. burg town, castle + graf count.]
The governor of a town or castle; later, a noble ruling by hereditary right a town or castle, with the adjacent domain.
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 13 Foure dukes, four marquesses, four landgraues, four burgraues..were appoynted. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 435 They of the lowe and high Germanie..cal one ruler, Burgreve, another Margreve. 1684Scanderbeg Rediv. ii. 23 The Burgraves of each City. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1841) IV. v. 459 The burgraves of Nuremburg. 1879Baring-Gould Germany II. 247 The majority of gentry did not occupy their own castles, but lived in those of the princes, as burggraves or stewards.
Hence burˈgraviate, the rank or office of burgrave.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geogr. IV. 50 The imperial land-judicatory of the burgraviate of Nurenberg. |