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Margrave

noun

The military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany.

A German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess).

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"Margrave" Quotes from Famous Books

... the most corrupt parliamentary elector could conceive in his wildest dreams of avarice. There were only seven electors and the prize was the greatest on earth. Francis I. said he was ready to spend 3,000,000 crowns, and Charles could not afford to lag far behind.[256] The Margrave of Brandenburg, "the father of all greediness," as the Austrians called him, was particularly influential because his brother, the Archbishop of Mainz, was also an elector and he required an especially exorbitant bribe. He was ambitious ...

— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard

... not to be. Just as the Margrave of Baden had stopped his advance along the Moselle into France the previous year, so now the supineness and factious opposition of the Dutch prevented Marlborough from dealing the French power a crushing blow. Deeply ...

— With Marlborough to Malplaquet • Herbert Strang and Richard Stead

Words linked to "Margrave" : lord, noble, military governor, FRG, Germany, Deutschland, Federal Republic of Germany, nobleman