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/ˈɫændˌɡɹeɪv/
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NOUN
- a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany
How To Use landgrave In A Sentence
- The trick fountains were planned by the landgraves from 1696 onwards, in 1700 landgrave Karl met the master builder in Italy, the Hercules figure was erected on the mountain top's pyramid in 1713.
- Local kings, landgraves, princes, archbishops, bishops and other local sovereigns copied the castlemania of the emperor and the high nobility and built their own castles and residences within their respective territories.
- By doing so, the legacy of the landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt and the electors and grand dukes of Hesse may be preserved.
- At the age of four b. 1207, she was brought to the court of her future husband, Ludwig, landgrave of Thuringia. St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious
- Each county consisted of eight signories, one for each proprietor, eight baronies, four given to the county landgrave and two to each of its two cassiques, and four precincts of six colonies each for the others.
- 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 Anatomy of Melancholy
- Through his sturdy helmet the noble fiddler smote the landgrave. The Nibelungenlied
- Landgrave Morton replied, that there was a necessity for holding a commission from the king to be judge of the court of vice-admiralty, because it did not appear from the charter that the Proprietors could impower their judge to try persons for acts committed without the bounds of their colony, and that with such jurisdiction the judge of the admiralty ought for many reasons always to be vested. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1
- His next employment, in late 1766, was not at Hochst, but rather in Kassel, where another new factory had been founded by Frederick II, landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.
- The result was that the landgraves kept a strong hold on the city's development for more than 500 years.