中文翻译与英英解释

n.
【历史】
1.(中世纪的)城防统帅。
2.(世袭的)守城官。

the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries

a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right

A burgrave is the ruler of a castle or fortified town. The English form is derived through the French from the German Burggraf and Dutch Burggraaf, a rank above Baron but below Graf (Count), or burch-graeve (Mediaeval Latin language burcgravius or burgicomes).