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Burgraviate

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  • "Burgrave (Burggraf): German Borough Count: A Burggraf, or Burgrave, was a military and civil judicial governor in the 12th and 13th centuries of a castle, the town it dominated and its immediate surrounding countryside. His jurisdiction was a burgraviate. Later the title became ennobled and hereditary with its own domain. Example of the Title is the Burgrave of Nuremberg, held by the House of Hohenzollern." *[1]

Burgraviate of Kirchberg

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  • Titles: Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count of Sayn and Wittgenstein, Lord of Farnrode
  • ?: non-immediate Burgrave
  • 1675/1715: immediate Counts of Sayn

Burgraviate of Nuremberg

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  • 1105: 1st mention of Nuremberg
  • ?: Burgraviate
  • 1105-1192: To Counts of Raabs
  • 1227: To Counts of Hohenzollern (by female succession and marriage)
  • 1363: Received princely status
  • 1385: HRE Prince
  • 1415: Emperor pledged Margraviate of Brandenburg to Nuremberg
  • 1417: Hohenzollerns enfeoffed with Brandenburg
  • 1440: Burgraviate of Nuremberg partitioned into Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth
  • 1500: Franconian Circle
  • 1806: Annexed by Bavaria
  • 1219: Imperial Free City

Burgraviate of Rheineck

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General References

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