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What is a marquis?

What is a marquis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke, but above a count. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.
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The servants of a duke or marquis had seven rows of curls on their state wigs, six on their house wigs and five on their carriage wigs.
By cynically playing on the follies of various discontented peers and MPs, he builds a faction round the marquis.
Next came the marquis of Winchester, Lord Treasurer, bearing the orb as he had done for Mary.
Well, technically he is a marquis until his father passes on and the title of duke will be officially his.
But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility.
He breaks the bank, but when he offers Paulina the money to buy off the marquis, she is ashamed and hurls it back at him in disgust.

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