Obs. [ad. G. wildgraf (MHG. wiltgrâve): see WILD a. and GRAVE sb.4] In Germany, formerly the chief magistrate of an uncultivated or forest region; spec. the title of a hereditary race of rulers in parts of the Rhineland (cf. RHINEGRAVE, WALDGRAVE). So Wildgravess (trans. G. wildgrāfin).
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., V. 504. Juliana…. Wildgravess and Rhinegravess of Grumbach.
1796. Scott, Wild Huntsman, i. The Wildgrave winds his bugle horn.
1798. trans. Bürger’s Wild Huntsm., 2. Shrill sounds the haughty Wildgrave’s horn.
