"margraf" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1854, [Edmund] Spencer, Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia, London: George Routledge & Co., […], page 87",
          "text": "We may ridicule the inertness of the Turk, but how can we sufficiently express our contempt for a mighty emperor, and all the dukes and electors, princes and margrafs, kings and landgrafs of Germany?",
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          "ref": "1881, [Ebenezer] Cobham Brewer, The Political, Social, and Literary History of Germany from the Commencement to the Present Day, London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., page 50",
          "text": "When, therefore, the diet met on the banks of the Rhine, all the dukes, counts, and margrafs of the empire repaired thither, each at the head of a train of armed vassals who encamped on the plains, presenting the appearance of an army summoned to battle, rather than of a comitia assembled to choose a king.",
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          "ref": "1900, F. W. Fitzpatrick, “The Hohenzollerns”, in William W. Hudson, G. Mercer Adam, editors, Self Culture: A Magazine of Knowledge; With Departments Devoted to Literature, Science, Art and Music, Civics, Education, Religion, and the Home, volume XI, Cleveland, Ohio: Self Culture Magazine Company, […], page 426, column 1",
          "text": "Issue of these margrafs and of these knights, the Hohenzollern house owes much to both.",
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          "ref": "1992, David Crouch, The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000–1300, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 141",
          "text": "The margrafs Albrecht of Aschesleben (c.1170) and Otto I of Brandenburg (1170–84) are also distinguished by banners, the former receiving it from St Stephen, the patron of his Stift (monastery).",
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          "text": "Issue of these margrafs and of these knights, the Hohenzollern house owes much to both.",
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