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Vogt , from the
Old High German, also
Voigt or
Fauth); plural
Vögte;
Dutch (land)
voogd;
Swedish fogde;
Danish foged; ;
Finnish vouti;
Romanian voit); ultimately from
Latin [ad]vocatus, in the
Holy Roman Empire was a title of a reeve or
advocate, an overlord (mostly of
nobility) exerting guardianship or military protection as well as secular justice (
Blutgericht) over a certain territory. The territory or area of responsibility of a Vogt is called a
Vogtei (from
[ad]vocatia). The term also denotes a mayor of a village.