In order to pay for these wars, and to meet the expenses of a splendid court, the later margraves had sold various rights to the towns and provinces of Brandenburg, and so aided the development of local government.
Zahringen in 1218, his coheiresses brought parts of the Breisgau to the counts of Urach and Kyburg, while part went to the margraves of Baden.
The emperor was still suzerain indeed, but his relations with the mark were so insignificant that they exercised practically no influence on its development; and so the power of the Ascanian margraves was virtually unlimited.
In the pecuniary embarrassments of the margraves also originated the power of the Stande, or estates, consisting of the nobles, the clergy and the towns.
When Otto died in 1267, the area of the mark had been almost doubled, and the margraves had attained to an influential position in the Empire.
In 1355 the Stande secured the appointment of a permanent councillor, without whose concurrence the decrees of the margraves were invalid.
Others were able to maintain their independence, and to make use of the pecuniary needs of the margraves to become practically municipal republics.
The Father of these two Margraves (elder of the two Half-brothers that have children) died in the time of Old King Friedrich, eight or nine years ago.
Margraves and Margravines of Schwedt,--there are five or six of such young Cousins.
Before her were seen to stand the two Margraves Eckewart and Gere, the noble knights and good.
The Cinarchesi, it is said, had been driven by one of the papal margraves to Sardinia.
Etruria thus acquires supremacy over the neighbouring island a second time, and it is certain that the Tuscan margraves continued to govern Corsica till the death of Lambert, the last of their line, in 951.
The interests of the Austrian margraves and dukes were not confined to the acquisition of wealth either in land or chattels.
A crowd of Marshals andMargraves felt that they would make excellent guardians of the Principality, and offered their generous protection.
He also gave the Ribband of the Order to the Electoral Prince his Son, and to his two Brothers the Margraves Christian and Albert.
The Prince Royal seated himself a little behind the King towards the Right on a Folding-chair, with his Governor the Count de Dobna behind him: The Margraves also sate in two Folding-chairs on both sides of the Queen.
While the Music as it were repeated these same words, the Prince Royal and the Margraves went and paid their Homage also to the King and Queen, kneeling on the last Step of their Throne and kissing their Hands.
The Prince Royal, the two Margraves and the Duchess of Courland the King's Sister, were the only Persons that had the honour of dining with their Majesties.
As often as the King or Queen drank, nine Cannon were fired; six when the Prince Royal drank, and three whenever the Margraves and the Duchess of Courland drank.
There was champagne from the stock which the Margraves carried in their car, and it foamed and bubbled in the Venetian glasses that Mabel had brought from home, at a temperature that Mabel herself had regulated.
Evelyn's name carried far more prestige than Mabel's; the Margraves had not been in the Clarkson Blue Book at all, until Mabel came home from school and demonstrated her right to enlistment among the elect.
It was necessary in that day to have these strongholds, from which the margraves could issue and make war upon their neighbors, that being their principal business.
From the twelfth century till the completion of the new castle nearer the city, the old Schloss was the residence of the Margraves of the Duchy.
It afterwards came into the possession of the margraves of Meissen, from whom it was taken in 1312 by the margraves of Brandenburg.
For years the head of the House of Hohenzollern, descendant of the ancient margraves of Germany who have battled with the old Romans, made it manifest in speech and by action that his ambition was to create a world empire.
He developed the system of margravesor wardens to guard the frontiers of the kingdom, fortified his towns and required every ninth man to take up arms for his country.
She had for once a surfeit of highhoting in the pictures, the porcelains, the thrones and canopies, the tapestries, the historical associations with the margraves and their marriages, with the Great Frederick and the Great Napoleon.
The rococomargraves and margravines used of course to worship in St. Johannis Church.
Charlemagne had chosen his counts and margraves in most cases from the wealthy and distinguished families of his realms.
On the frontier were the counts of the march, or margraves (marquises), already mentioned.
In Italy too the title of marchese, once borne only by the powerful margraves of Verona, has shared the fate of most other titles of nobility in becoming common and of no great social significance.
The margraves had their origin in the counts established by Charlemagne and his successors to guard the frontier districts of the empire, and for centuries the title was always associated with this function.
The margraves had within their own jurisdiction the authority of dukes, but at the outset they were subordinate to the dukes in the feudal army of the empire.
Upon it stand the town-hall and the former palace of the margraves of Bayreuth, now the main building of the university.
There for nearly three centuries it was the property of the margraves of Bayreuth, being ceded with the rest of Bayreuth to Prussia in 1791.
From that time the Margraves of Este possessed great influence in Ferrara.
Folco inherited his father's Italian possessions, and in the great struggle of the German emperor with the papacy, the Margraves of Este were aggressive and determined soldiers.
As to the aforesaid margraves and burgraves, she gave them the tail of her dress to hold, and said that if she did not tread them under foot, they would trample upon her.
All his paternal ancestors were Danes; but, on the mother's side, he was related to the Margravesof Brandenburg and Queen Agnes.
The presence of the margraves and the honest Count Gerhard, however, and their unanimous demand that something decisive should be attempted, caused him some embarrassment.
I must remain contented with respectful servants, and an ample guard of honour, while the margraves and Drost Hessel are present in the council.
They had arrived, late in the evening, from a journey through Brandenburg, and were accompanied by both the brothers of Queen Agnes--the Margraves Otto and Conrad of Brandenburg.
Nearest the royal personages rode the Margraves of Brandenburg, with Duke Waldemar and his drost.
When the margraves and I first heard the report of it, in Count Gerhard's castle at Kiel, we were almost overwhelmed with horror.
This had been the advice of Drost Peter and the chancellor, in which the Margraves of Brandenburg had also concurred.
Next morning betimes, before the Dane-court commenced, Drost Peter had a private conversation with Sir John; but almost as early, the duke was with the Margraves of Brandenburg and the queen.
The young king had retired, and the Margraves of Brandenburg had just left the queen in her private apartment.
The remains of the old castle of the margraves have been converted into barracks.
The fine old monastery, and the ruined early Gothic abbey-church of Chorin on the Stettin Railway, the burial-place of the Margraves of Brandenburg, are interesting to all students of architecture.
She is the Mother of two Princes and a Princess; the Sons are the Margraves Frederic and Henry, and the Daughter is married to the hereditary Prince of Wirtemberg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "margraves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
