marquessate

/ ˈmɑːkwɪzɪt /

noun

1. (in the British Isles) the dignity, rank, or position of a marquess; marquisate

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His father, Viscount Weymouth, was the heir to the Marquessate of Bath while his mother was the former Daphne Vivian.

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They include the marquessate of Powis, two earldoms with the title of Pembroke, two with that of Powis, and the earldoms of Huntingdon and Montgomery, Torrington and Carnarvon, the viscountcies of Montgomery and Ludlow, fourteen baronies and seven baronetcies.

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Dalhousie’s family consisted of two daughters, and the marquessate became extinct at his death.

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The marquessate of Huntly passed to his cousin and heir-male, George, 5th earl of Aboyne.

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Archibald, the great-grandson of William, was raised in 1703 to the dignity of Duke of Douglas, but died unmarried in 1761, when the ducal title became extinct, and the marquessate passed to the Duke of Hamilton, the descendant of a younger son of the first marquess.

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