A burgrave's a count of a castle or fortified town. The English form's derived through the French from the German Burggraf and Dutch) burg- or burch-graeve (Mediaeval Latin language burcgravius or burgicomes). The title's originally equivalent to that of castellan or châtelain, meaning keeper of a castle and/or fortified town (both can be called Burg in German, burg in Dutch). In Germany, owing to the peculiar conditions of the Holy Roman Empire, though the office of burgrave had become a… (More on Burgrave)