landgraf

plural landgrafs

1. alternativeAlternative form of landgrave.

   The only building of note is the castle, which was long the residence of the landgrafs of Hessen-Rotenberg.

   1868, “E´SCHWEGÉ”, in Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume IV, London: W. and R. Chambers […], page 125

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   Germany had its herzogs and landgrafs, each of whom had his territories, where he ruled, “monarch of all he surveyed.”

   1847, Washington M’Cartney, The Origin and Progress of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. H. Butler & Co., pages 58–59

   The landgrafs of Hessen-Kassel were sympathetic to Calvinism, which created an intellectual atmosphere that not only tolerated Paracelsianism, not unlike that of Hemmingsen’s Copenhagen, but fostered religio Paracelsica as well.

   1989, Jole Shackelford, Paracelsianism in Denmark and Norway in the 16th and 17th Centuries, page 264

1. A surname from German.