margraf

margraf (plural margrafs)

1. Alternative form of margrave.
   • 1854, [Edmund] Spencer, Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia, London: George Routledge & Co., […], page 87:

     We may ridicule the inertness of the Turk, but how can we sufficiently express our contempt for a mighty emperor, and all the dukes and electors, princes and margrafs, kings and landgrafs of Germany?

   • 1881, [Ebenezer] Cobham Brewer, The Political, Social, and Literary History of Germany from the Commencement to the Present Day, London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., page 50:

     When, therefore, the diet met on the banks of the Rhine, all the dukes, counts, and margrafs of the empire repaired thither, each at the head of a train of armed vassals who encamped on the plains, presenting the appearance of an army summoned to battle, rather than of a comitia assembled to choose a king.

   • 1900, F. W. Fitzpatrick, “The Hohenzollerns”, in William W. Hudson and G. Mercer Adam, editors, Self Culture: A Magazine of Knowledge; With Departments Devoted to Literature, Science, Art and Music, Civics, Education, Religion, and the Home, volume XI, Cleveland, Ohio: Self Culture Magazine Company, […], page 426, column 1:

     Issue of these margrafs and of these knights, the Hohenzollern house owes much to both.

   • 1992, David Crouch, The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000–1300, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:

     The margrafs Albrecht of Aschesleben (c.1170) and Otto I of Brandenburg (1170–84) are also distinguished by banners, the former receiving it from St Stephen, the patron of his Stift (monastery).

From German Markgraf or French margrave.

margraf m (plural margrafi)

1. margrave