margravate
nounUK /ˈmɑːɡɹəveɪt/
Etymology From margrave + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
1
The status or rank of a margrave.
2
A territory governed by a margrave or margravine.
- From 1032 Provence had been a margravate of the Holy Roman Empire in the imperial Kingdom of Burgundy.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 174:
- Related terms
- barony, bishopric, county, duchy, kingdom, march, margraviate, marquesate, marquessate, marquisate, nobility, parish, principality, regality, royalty, shire, viscountcy, viscounty