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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURGRAVE , the Eng. See also:

form, derived through the Fr., of the Ger. Burggraf and Flem. See also:burg or burch-graeve (med. See also:Lat. burcgravius or burgicomes), i.e. See also:count of a See also:castle or fortified See also:town. The See also:title is See also:equivalent to that of castellan (Lat. castellanus) o; chdtelain (q.v.). In See also:Germany, owing to the See also:peculiar conditions of the See also:Empire, though the See also:office of burgrave had become a See also:sinecure by the end of the 13th See also:century, the title, as See also:borne by feudal nobles having the status of princes of. the Empire, obtained a quasi-royal significance. It is still included among the subsidiary titles of several See also:sovereign princes; and the See also:king of See also:Prussia, whose ancestors were burgraves of See also:Nuremberg for over 20o years, is still styled burgrave of Nuremberg.

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