"markgraf" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1865, Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume VII, London: W[illiam] and R[obert] Chambers […], page 631, column 2:",
          "text": "From this time, P. began to decline; various districts were ceded to the markgrafs of Brandenburg, while many districts began to be colonised by Germans.",
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          "ref": "1867 January 28 – March 8 (date written), Thomas Carlyle, “Appendix: Reminiscences of Sundry”, in James Anthony Froude, editor, Reminiscences, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1881, →OCLC, pages 333–334:",
          "text": "[…] he was large-boned, lean, but still firm-knit, tall, and strong-looking when he stood, a right good old steel-gray figure, with rustic simplicity and dignity about him, and a vivacious strength looking through him which might have suited one of those old steel-gray markgrafs whom Henry the Fowler set up to ward the “marches,” and do battle with the intrusive heathen in a stalwart and judicious manner.",
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          "ref": "1895, Ephraim Emerton, Mediaeval Europe (814–1300), Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company, […], page 148:",
          "text": "The future of eastern Europe was in the hands of the markgrafs of Brandenburg and of Austria.",
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          "ref": "1915, Basil Edward Hammond, “Mediæval Cities: (2) Maritime Cities Possessing Important Territory Outside Their Walls”, in Bodies Politic and Their Governments, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 387:",
          "text": "But in 1154 the advent of the Kaiser Frederic Barbarossa in Italy so strengthened the markgrafs around Vintimilia that in 1158 the Genoese were expelled from their fortress.",
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          "text": "[…] he was large-boned, lean, but still firm-knit, tall, and strong-looking when he stood, a right good old steel-gray figure, with rustic simplicity and dignity about him, and a vivacious strength looking through him which might have suited one of those old steel-gray markgrafs whom Henry the Fowler set up to ward the “marches,” and do battle with the intrusive heathen in a stalwart and judicious manner.",
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