"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]
