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List of nobiliary titles containing the term graf
Gefürsteter GrafA "princely count" was a Graf (Count), whose principality was also called a Grafschaft (countship), but who was explicitly marked as a (Reichs)fürst Notable cases were:
LandgraveA Landgraf, or Landgrave, was a nobleman of comital rank in feudal Germany whose jurisdiction stretched over a sometimes quite considerable territory. The title survived from the times of the Holy Roman Empire. The status of a landgrave was often associated with sovereign rights and decision-making much greater than that of a simple Count, but carried no legal prerogatives.
Examples: Landgrave of Thuringia, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg. Gefürsteter LandgrafA combination of Landgraf and Gefürsteter Graf (both above). Example: Leuchtenberg, later a duchy. Burgrave / ViscountA Burggraf, or Burgrave, was a 12th and 13th century military and civil judicial governor of a castle (compare Castellan, Custos, Keeper), of the town it dominated and of its immediate surrounding countryside. His jurisdiction was a Burggrafschaft, burgraviate. Later the title became ennobled and hereditary with its own domain. Example: Burgrave of Nuremberg. It occupies the same relative rank as titles rendered in purist German by Vizegraf, in Dutch as Burggraaf or in English as Viscount (Latin: Vicecomes), in origin also a deputy of a Count, as the burgrave usually in a castle or fortified town. Soon many became hereditary and almost-a-Count, ranking just below the 'real' Counts, but above a Freiherr (Baron). It was also often used as a courtesy title, by the heir to a Graf. RhinegraveA Rheingraf, or Rhinegrave, was a nobleman with the status of a count in the 12th and 13th centuries, the governor of one of the many castles or fortresses along the Rhine River in Western Germany, who had the entitlement of levying tolls for passage along the river. AltgraveAn Altgraf, or altgrave, was a nobleman of the status of a Count who had his dominion in mountainous areas of Germany and the Alpine regions, particularly around mountain passes where he had rights and entitlements of establishing garrisons at such points, and of levying tolls for passage. Originally it was a title of veneration rather than the holding of power. WildgraveA Wildgraf, Wildgrave, or Waldgrave was originally a nobleman of the status of count who had jurisdiction over uncultivated areas, forests and uninhabited districts. His legal privileges eventually vested in him the power of a chief forester and gamekeeper of a district. See Raugrave RaugraveA Raugraf, or Raugrave only held jurisdiction over waste ground and uninhabited districts. The title was originally owned by Graf Emich I, of a minor Frankish noble dynasty from the 12th century whose sons split the dynasty into Raugrafen and Wildgrafen. The dynasty died out in the 18th century. [1] The title was taken over after Elector Palatine Karl Ludwig I had purchased the estates, and after 1667 owned by the children from the Elector's bigamous (morganatic) second marriage and Karl's wife, Marie Louise von Degenfeld. Sources and references(incomplete)
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