burggraf

plural burggrafs

1. alternativeAlternative form of burgrave.

   Elective sovereigns of Germany, all the German kings, and dukes, and margrafs, and burggrafs were numbered among their retainers.

   1859 February, “History of Frederick II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great. By Thomas Carlyle. […]”, in The North British Review, volume XXX, Edinburgh: W. P. Kennedy, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co.; Dublin: M‘Glashan & Gill, page 29

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   The castle, built on a precipitous rock overlooking the town, and formerly the residence of the markgrafs, burggrafs, and bishops of M., was rebuilt in 1471; […]

   1864, Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume VI, London: W[illiam] and R[obert] Chambers […] and […] Edinburgh, page 392, column 1

   From these men arose the class of crown vassals, grafs, landgrafs, markgrafs, burggrafs, pfalzgrafs, princely highnesses, dukes, serenities, transparencies, gracious lords, &c., &c.—as wearisome to repeat as the musical instruments of King Nebuchadnezzar—holding feofs, and exercising jurisdiction in their several domains.

   1880 October, “1. Germany, Present and Past. By S. Baring Gould, M.A. […]”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume CLII, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer; Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 516

   After the victory of Muhldorf, when the Kaiser Ludwig sat at a meal with his burggrafs and great captains, he determined on a piece of luxury—“one egg to every man, and two to the excellently valiant Schwepperman.”

   1888 January 21, “Value of Eggs for Food”, in Scientific American: A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures, volume LVIII, number 3, New York, N.Y., page 33, column 1

   Gradually piece after piece of the territories about Nürnberg was absorbed until both Ansbach and Bayreuth were included in the possessions of the ambitious burggrafs, and the Hohenzollern had taken their place among the most important princes of the Empire.

   1890, Woodrow Wilson, The State. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration., Boston, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Co., […], page 245

   […] it was in opposing the accomplishment of this that the old electors of the race of the burggrafs had won their chief title to merit.

   1904, Henry Smith Williams, editor, The Historians’ History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages: […], volume XV (Germanic Empires (Concluded)), New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company; London: The History Association, page 241

plural Burggrafs

1. A surname from German.