margrave

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Upon this frontier post Charlemagne had established a strong body of troops under a commander who was called a margrave; and for some centuries this city, commanding the Danube, had been deemed one of the strongest defenses of the empire against Mohammedan invasion.

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  1. noun The lord or military governor of a medieval German border province.
  2. noun Used as a hereditary title for certain princes in the Holy Roman Empire.

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  • It will be as if you were a duke or count-margrave She signaled a negative. —  FSF, July 2006
  • Upon this frontier post Charlemagne had established a strong body of troops under a commander who was called a margrave; and for some centuries this city, commanding the Danube, had been deemed one of the strongest defenses of the empire against Mohammedan invasion. —  The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power
  • The young prince, Wenceslaus, was acknowledged king, and during his minority the regency was assigned to Otho, margrave or military commander of Brundenburg. —  The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power
  • The proposition for the marriage of the daughter of the grand prince with a mere margrave was coldly received. —  The Empire of Russia
  • When the Stadtholder demanded the clerk's release, Colonel von Rochow insolently refused to give him up, and now the margrave ordered me to arrest him. —  The Youth of the Great Elector
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  1. Probably Middle Dutch marcgrāve : marc, march, border; see merg- in Indo-European roots + grāve, count (perhaps ultimately from Greek grapheus, scribe; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also (after G.) markgrave, marckgrave, from French margrave = Dutch markgraaf = Middle Low German markgrēre = Danish markgreve = Swedish markgrefve, from Middle High German maregrāve (Old High German marcgrāvo), German markgraf, from mark, a march or border, + graf, a count: see march and grave.
 

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