(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.
Margrave
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.
(n.) The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solicitor Clive Margrave-Jones and Financial Planners Ltd are putting together a group of individuals who have been affected by tax rules to challenge the law that allows widows and widowers but not gay partners to inherit the other partner's property free of inheritance tax.
(2) In his unfinished, posthumously published autobiography, Margrave of the Marshes , there is a photograph of John Peel "compiling the running order for his programme in his room at home".
(3) Mr Margrave-Jones, of the law firm Margraves in Llandrindod Wells, has obtained a legal opinion backing the case from Hugh Tomlinson, a leading human rights QC at Matrix, the chambers Cherie Booth QC also works from.
(4) Financial Planners Ltd are working with Mr Margrave-Jones to bring potential claimants together to share the costs of what is likely to be an expensive legal process.
(5) Mr Margrave-Jones said: "We are claiming that these people who have lived together for a long time have not been given the opportunity to register their relationship for tax purposes, which is an infringement on their human rights."