The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landgraviate
Landgraviate \Land*gra"vi*ate\, n. [Cf. F. landgraviat.]
The territory held by a landgrave.
The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.
Wiktionary
landgraviate
n. The countship of a landgrave, a rare type of principality in the Holy Roman Empire.
Usage examples of "landgraviate".
During their weeks of almost mortally tedious westing across the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, the Bishopric of Hildesheim, Duchy of Kalenberg, Landgraviate of something-or-other, County of Lippe, County of Ravensburg, Bishopric of Osnabrück, County of Lingen, Bishopric of Münster, and County of Bentheim, she had mostly gone in man’s attire, booted, sworded, and spurred.