Dignitaries
Dignitaries or Großgebietiger are the highest dignitaries of a state or organization like the Catholic Church or many orders. These dignitaries belong to the first class.
Great dignitaries of the Catholic Church are, for example, cardinals , archbishops and bishops . Larger areas of the Teutonic Order , for example, were the Grand Commander , the Ordensmarschall , the Großspittler , the Ordenstressler and the Ordenstrappier .
source
- Dignitaries . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 8, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 428 .
- German Order . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 4, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna 1906, p. 733 .