Landgrave

Word LANDGRAVE
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Hyphenation land grave
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Definitions and meanings of "Landgrave"

What do we mean by landgrave?

A man in medieval Germany who had jurisdiction over a particular territory. noun

Used as the title for such a nobleman. noun

In Germany, in the middle ages, a graf or count to whom were intrusted special judicial functions, extending over a considerable territory; later, the title of certain German princes, some of whom were princes of the empire. noun

A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. noun

Specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany. noun

County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal). noun

A count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany noun

Specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany.

County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal).

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The word "landgrave" in example sentences

"landgrave," but returned to New York, and ultimately (1680) to ❋ Jasper Danckaerts (1898)

The polygamy of Philip, landgrave of Hesse, in the Lutheran community, in 1539, is well known. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his ❋ Unknown (2007)

Alongside him are walking the Count Palatine, the landgrave, and other nobles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Through his sturdy helmet the noble fiddler smote the landgrave. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Elizabeth, the duke of Saxe, the landgrave of Hesse, the princes of Orange, the Condés and Colignys, have done all, and books nothing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Christopher Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse's mathematician, in their astronomical epistles, whether it be the same Diaphanum clearness, matter of air and heavens, or two distinct essences? ❋ Unknown (2007)

At the age of 4, she was engaged to the son of the landgrave of Thuringia, whom she married in 1221, at the age of 14. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Upon much pleading a shepherd of the landgrave permitted her to use an abandoned pig sty. ❋ Argent (2006)

At the age of four b. 1207, she was brought to the court of her future husband, Ludwig, landgrave of Thuringia. ❋ Argent (2006)

Madame was struck in her tenderest organ, which was her pride, for she was the daughter of the elector of the Palatinate, as well as the granddaughter of the landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, on one side, and of Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen of Bohemia, on the other. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)

The leaders of the League of Schmalkalden—John Frederick, elector of Saxony, and Philip, landgrave of Hesse—placed under the ban. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The landgrave was not such a dull-witted old soldier after all. ❋ Robert Shea (1963)

Brandenburg, and ancestor of the Prussian house that has given an emperor to Germany; Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria; Maurice, landgrave of ❋ Various (N/A)

Pope, emperor, king, sultan, grand-duke, duke, doge, margrave, landgrave, count -- what are they all by the side of the humble company that landed on Plymouth Rock? ❋ Various (N/A)

Whosoever, by the right of inheritance, shall come to be landgrave or cassique, shall take the name and arms of his predecessor in that dignity, to be from thenceforth the name and arms of his family and their posterity. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)

Palatine's court shall not settle the devolved dignity, with the baronies thereunto annexed, before the second biennial parliament after such devolution; the next biennial parliament but one after such devolution shall have power to make any one landgrave or cassique in the room of him, who, dying without heirs, his dignity and baronies devolved. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)

To give him the greater weight, he was created a landgrave of the colony, to which dignity forty-eight thousand acres of land were unalienably annexed: but to his mortification he soon found, that the proprietary government had acquired but little firmness and stability, and, by his imprudence and rigour, fell into still greater disrespect and contempt. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)

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