Margrave

Margrave is the English and French form of the German title Markgraf (from mark "march" + Graf) "count" and certain equivalent nobiliary ("princely") titles in other languages.

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The wife of a margrave is called a margravine or in German Markgr?fin.

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A Markgraf, or margrave, originally functioned as the military governor of a Carolingian mark, a medieval border province. A margrave had jurisdiction over a march (German Mark), which also become known, after his title, as a margraviate or margravate, strictly speaking the correct word for his office. As outlying areas tended to have great importance to the central realms of kings and princes, and they often became larger than those nearer the interior, margraves assumed quite inordinate powers over those of other counts of a realm.

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Graf: Graf (from the Latin Grafio 'scribe' from the Greek) is a German noble title equal in rank to a count (derived from the Latin Comes, with a history of its own) or a British earl (an original Anglo-Saxon title)....

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