burgraveburggraven.
/ˈbəːɡreɪv/, U.S. /ˈbərˌɡreɪv/ The governor of a town or castle; later, a noble ruling by hereditary right a town or castle, with the adjacent domain.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > commander of fortress or garrison
warden1297
alcaydec1503
governor1523
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stadholdera1626
Town Major1646
commandant1687
dizdar1768
killadar1778
kaïd1816
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > local or district governor > [noun] > governor of a town or castle
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1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xiij Foure dukes, four marquesses, four landgraues, four burgraues..were appoynted.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 350 They of the lowe and high Germanie..call one ruler, Burgreue, another Margreue.
1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus ii. 23 The Burgraves of each City.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. v. 487 The burgraves of Nuremburg.
1879 S. Baring-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.
Derivatives
burˈgraviate n. the rank or office of burgrave.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > local or district governor > [noun] > governor of a town or castle > position of
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1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 50 The imperial land-judicatory of the burgraviate of Nurenberg.
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