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BURGRAVE , the Eng. See also: form, derived through the Fr., of the Ger
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Burggraf and Flem. See also: burg or burch-graeve (med
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See also: Lat. burcgravius or burgicomes), i.e. count of a See also: castle or fortified See also: town
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The title is See also: equivalent to that of castellan (Lat. castellanus) o; chdtelain (q.v.)
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In See also: Germany, owing to the See also: peculiar conditions of the See also: Empire, though the office of burgrave had become a sinecure by the end of the 13th century, the title, as See also: borne by feudal nobles having the status of princes of. the Empire, obtained a quasi-royal significance
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It is still included among the subsidiary titles of several See also: sovereign princes; and the See also: king of Prussia, whose ancestors were burgraves of
See also: Nuremberg for over 20o years, is still styled burgrave of Nuremberg
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