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See also:MARGRAVE (Ger. Markgraf) , a See also:German See also:title meaning literally " See also:count of the See also:March " (See also:Lat. marchio, comes marchae, marchisus). The margraves had their origin in the See also:counts established by See also:Charlemagne and his successors to guard the frontier districts of the See also:empire, and for centuries the title was always associated with this See also:function. The margraves had within their own See also:jurisdiction the authority of See also:dukes, but at the outset they were subordinate to the dukes in the feudal See also:army of the empire. In the 12th See also:century, however, the See also:mar-See also:graves of See also:Brandenburg and See also:Austria (the See also:north and See also:east marks) asserted their position as tenants-in-See also:chief of the empire; with the break-up of the See also:great duchies the others did the same; and the margraves henceforward took See also:rank with the great German princes. The title of margrave very See also:early lost its See also:original significance, and was See also:borne by princes whose territories were in no sense frontier districts, e.g. by See also:Hermann, a son of Hermann, margrave of See also:Verona, who assumed in 1112 the title of margrave of See also:Baden. Thus, too, when the elector See also:Albert See also:Achilles of Brandenburg in 1473 gave See also:Bayreuth and See also:Ansbach as apanages to his sons and their descendants these styled themselves margraves. The title, however, retained in See also:Germany its See also:sovereign significance, and has not, like " See also:marquis " in See also:France and " marchese " in See also:Italy, sunk into a See also:mere title of See also:nobility; it is not, therefore, in its See also:present sense the See also:equivalent of the See also:English title " See also:marquess." The German margraviates have now all been absorbed into other sovereignties, and the title margrave is borne only as a subsidiary title in the full See also:style of their sovereigns.
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