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 .