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=Burgraviate=
 * "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." *

Burgraviate of Kirchberg

 * Titles: Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count of Sayn and Wittgenstein, Lord of Farnrode
 * ?: non-immediate Burgrave
 * 1675/1715: immediate Counts of Sayn

Burgraviate of Nuremberg

 * 1105: 1st mention of Nuremberg
 * ?: Burgraviate
 * 1105-1192: To Counts of Raabs
 * 1227: To Counts of Hohenzollern (by female succession and marriage)
 * 1363: Received princely status
 * 1385: HRE Prince
 * 1415: Emperor pledged Margraviate of Brandenburg to Nuremberg
 * 1417: Hohenzollerns enfeoffed with Brandenburg
 * 1440: Burgraviate of Nuremberg partitioned into Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth
 * 1500: Franconian Circle
 * 1806: Annexed by Bavaria
 * 1219: Imperial Free City


 * Reference
 * Burgraves of Nuremberg