Taking the title margrave of Brandenburg, he pressed the warfare against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, did much for the spread of Christianity and civilization therein, and so became the founder of the margraviate of Brandenburg.
It was probably about this time that he was invested with the margraviate of Tuscany and the lands of Matilda, the late margravine.
The emperor's concluding years were occupied with a campaign in Holland, and with a quarrel over the succession to the margraviate of Meissen, two disputes in which his enemies were aided by Lothair of Saxony.
Upper Saxony, formed of the Duchies of Saxony, and Pomerania, the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Suabia, including the Duchy of Wurtemberg, the Margraviate of Baden, and 32 imperial cities.
Sigismund defaulted payment in 1393, so that the margraviate passed to them.
As we have seen, the mortgage was not discharged, and Frederick had been formally invested with the margraviate and electorship in 1417.
When Gero died in 965, his mark was divided into two parts, the northern portion, lying along both banks of the middle Elbe, being called the north or old mark, and forming the nucleus of the later margraviate of Brandenburg.
Louis the elder, who died in 1361, to obtain a promise from Louis the younger and Otto, that the margraviate should come to his own son, Wenceslaus, in case the electors died childless.
He was gladly received by the king of Poland, and other neighbouring princes, welcomed by a large number of the people, and in 1348 invested with the margraviate by King Charles IV.
Charles invested Wenceslaus with the margraviate in 1373, but undertook its administration himself, and passed much of his time at a castle which he built at Tangermunde.
The Margraviate of Anspach is very much interspersed with Woods, which makes it a fine Country for Hunting.
Anspach is the Capital of the Margraviate so call'd, and the Residence of the Margrave of Brandenbourg, Chief of the second Branch of that Family settled in Franconia.
The question had been compromised by the cession to Margaret in 1347 of the margraviate of Antwerp by John III.
It will not be our fault if this hurls him from his little throne, and how could we be blamed, should the Emperor bestow the margraviate of Brandenburg upon Prince Schwarzenberg, as he did the margraviate of Jägerndorf upon Prince Lobkowitz?
His littleMargraviate was misgoverned enough for a great empire.
The Margraviate of Azilia was magnificent upon the map, but was impracticable in reality.
This pamphlet was accompanied by a beautiful but fanciful plan representing the form of settling the districts or county divisions in his province, which he styled "the Margraviate of Azilia.
Of course, no one could legally contest his right to do this; but the Papal opposition, the attitude of the cities now asserting their independence, and the general disorder split the margraviate into fragments.
After Countess Matilda's death the envoys despatched from Germany to reassume the margraviate of Tuscany in the name of the Empire followed one another in rapid succession.
Frederic regarded the dissolution of the margraviate as an accomplished fact, and wished to assume the direct government of its various component parts by means of German counts or Podesta, in the manner already adopted by him in Lombardy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "margraviate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
