(n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) It deals with various claims and counterclaims of princes, marquises, landgraves, bishops, emperors, dukes and electors, but the "we the peoples," of the UN charter are nowhere to be seen.
(2) But while Westphalia enjoined freedom of religion, its modern invokers want to defend the presumed rights of the modern equivalent of those landgraves, marquises, princes and counts, to massacre their own people with impunity.
(3) In the 18th century, the Landgrave of Hesse sold thousands of men into military service for the British crown.
Landgraviate
Definition:
(n.) The territory held by a landgrave.
(n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.