burgrave

Noun

(plural burgraves)

The military governor of a German town or castle; a nobleman of the same status

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Of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg.
And was occupied by an imperial burgrave for some fifty years, after which it was retaken by the counts of Flanders.
Of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg, and in 1391 did the same for the Teutonic Order against Ladislaus V., king of Poland and prince of Lithuania.
JAN DLUGOSZ [JOHANNES LONGINUS] (1415-1480), Polish statesman and historian, was the son of Jan Dlugosz, burgrave of Bozeznica.
(c. 1371-1440), elector of Brandenburg, founder of the greatness of the House of Hohenzollern, was a son of Frederick V., burgrave of Nuremberg, and first came into prominence by saving the life of Sigismund, king of Hungary, at the battle of Nicopolis in 1396.

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