grandducal

comparative more grandducal · superlative most grandducal

1. alternativeAlternative form of grand ducal.

   Family capital — most likely grandducal and Spanish cash as well — was invested in the Habsburgs' war.

   1982, Béla K. Király, Gunther Erich Rothenberg, War and Society in East Central Europe, page 73

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   In the documents from the turn of the fifteenth century (not mentioning the earlier ones) from the royal or grandducal chancelleries, the term "servitur regius" appears very rarely.

   1986, World Union of Jewish Studies,, Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 4-12, 1985

   It is in fact far more probable that, as Langedijk suggests, the habit of portraying Cosimo in grandducal robes was introduced only after his death.

   2006, Henk Th. van Veen, Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture, →ISBN