Margrave vs Marquisate - What's the difference?
margrave | marquisate |
A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area.
* 1973': Among pulverised heads of stone '''margraves and electors, reconnoitering a likely-looking cabbage patch, all of a sudden Slothrop picks up the scent of an unmistakable no it can’t be yes it is it’s a REEFER! — Thomas Pynchon, ''Gravity’s Rainbow
A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess.
* 1516': The '''Margrave of Bruges was their head. — Thomas More, ''Utopia ,
The territory held by a marquis or margrave.
The state or rank of a marquis.
*2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 394:
*:he has Mary Boleyn's word for it that the marquisate has bought Henry only the right to caress her sister's inner thigh.
As nouns the difference between margrave and marquisate
is that margrave is a feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area while marquisate is the territory held by a marquis or margrave.margrave
English
(wikipedia margrave)Noun
(en noun)Chapter 1.
