markgraf

plural markgrafs

1. alternativeAlternative form of margrave.

   The future of eastern Europe was in the hands of the markgrafs of Brandenburg and of Austria.

   1895, Ephraim Emerton, Mediaeval Europe (814–1300), Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company, […], page 148

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   From this time, P. began to decline; various districts were ceded to the markgrafs of Brandenburg, while many districts began to be colonised by Germans.

   1865, Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume VII, London: W[illiam] and R[obert] Chambers […], page 631, column 2

   […] he was large-boned, lean, but still firm-knit, tall, and strong-looking when he stood, a right good old steel-gray figure, with rustic simplicity and dignity about him, and a vivacious strength looking through him which might have suited one of those old steel-gray markgrafs whom Henry the Fowler set up to ward the “marches,” and do battle with the intrusive heathen in a stalwart and judicious manner.

   1867 January 28 – March 8 (date written), Thomas Carlyle, “Appendix: Reminiscences of Sundry”, in James Anthony Froude, editor, Reminiscences, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1881, →OCLC, pages 333–334

   But in 1154 the advent of the Kaiser Frederic Barbarossa in Italy so strengthened the markgrafs around Vintimilia that in 1158 the Genoese were expelled from their fortress.

   1915, Basil Edward Hammond, “Mediæval Cities: (2) Maritime Cities Possessing Important Territory Outside Their Walls”, in Bodies Politic and Their Governments, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 387