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Mouseover harm macroДЄs such, it was an actual office rather than a court rank although it also became a grade in the court order of precedence under the Palaiologan emperorsand was always held by one individual. The title of 'Grand Duke' megas doux was created by Alexios I Komnenos and was conferred upon the commanding admiral of the Byzantine navy. In the same century, the purely ceremonial version of the title 'grand duke' in Russia in fact the western translation of the Russian title 'grand prince' granted to the siblings of the tsar expanded massively because of the large number of progeny of the ruling House of Romanov during those decades.ДЄfter the Russian conquests, the title continued to be used by the Russian Emperors in their role as rulers of both de facto non-sovereign Lithuania - and the equally non-sovereign autonomous Finland - Under the latter, exclusively Byzantine theme systemthe commander of a theme was often styled a doux instead of the earlier strategos from the 10th century on. A list of these is available in the article grand duchy. Thus the 19th century saw a new group of monarchs titled Grand Duke in central Europe, especially in present-day Germany. After Napoleon's downfall, the victorious powers who met at the Congress of Viennawhich dealt with the political aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, agreed to abolish the Grand Duchies created by Bonaparte and to create a group of monarchies of intermediate importance with that title. Napoleon I awarded the title extensively: during his era, several of his allies and de facto vassals were allowed to assume the title of grand duke, usually at the same time as their inherited fiefs or fiefs granted by Napoleon were enlarged by annexed territories previously belonging to enemies defeated on the battlefield. This official title was granted by Pope Pius V in arguably it was a personal Papal title attached to a mere dukedom, though, because the territory was under the vassalage of the Holy Roman Empire. The first monarchs ever officially titled grand duke were the Medici sovereigns of Tuscanystarting from the late 16th century.

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Fromboth the Latin version and its Polish equivalent wielki ksiaze literally 'grand prince'the monarchic title of the rulers of Lithuania as well as of western Russia, Prussia, Mazovia, Samogithia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia and Chernigov including hollow claims nurtured by ambitionwere used as part of their full official monarchic titles by the Kings Polish: Krol of Poland during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His son and successor Charles the Bold reigned -77 continued to use the same style and title. Philip III, Duke of Burgundy reigned -67 assumed the subsidiary, legally void style and title of 'Grand Duke of the West' inhaving previously brought the Duchies of Brabant and Limburg as well as the counties of Holland, Zeeland, Friesland, Hainaut and Namur into his possession. They tried-ultimately without success-to create from these territories under their control a new unified country between the Kingdom of France in the west and the Holy Roman Empire mainly present-day Germany in the east.

It arose because the title of Duke had gradually lost status and precedence during the Middle Ages by having been granted to rulers of relatively small fiefs feudal territoriesinstead of the large tribal regions or even national territories to which the title was once attached.ДЄnother example was the line of self-proclaimed grand dukes legally dukes of Burgundy in the 15th century, when they ruled most of present-day north-eastern France as well as almost the entire Low Countries. It is used in some current and former independent monarchies in Europe, particularly. It is traditionally ranked in order of precedence below the title of emperorking or archduke and above that of sovereign prince or sovereign duke. Grand duke feminine: grand duchess is a European hereditary title for either certain monarchs or members of certain monarchs' families.

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