Marklo

Marklo was, according to the Vita Lebuini antiqua (an important source for early Saxon history), the tribal capital of the Saxons in which they held an annual council to "confirm laws, give judgment on outstanding cases, and determine by common counsel whether they would go to war or be in peace that year." ^[1] After the conquest of old Saxony by Charlemagne in 782 the tribal councils of Marklo were abolished. ^[2]

Marklo was identified by the 19th-century anthropologist Henry Hoyle Howorth with the village of Markenah in the County of Hoya near Heiligen Ioh, a "sacred wood" and Adelshorn in Lower Saxony. ^[3]

References

1. Goldberg 1995, p. 473.
2. Goldberg 1995, p. 477.
3. Howorth 1880, p. 435.

Sources

• Goldberg, Eric J. (1995). "Popular Revolt, Dynastic Politics, and Aristocratic Factionalism in the Early Middle Ages: The Saxon Stellinga Reconsidered". Speculum. 70 (3). [Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press]: 467–501. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   2865267 . Retrieved 2025-05-13.
• Howorth, H. H. (1880). "The Ethnology of Germany.-Part IV. The Saxons of Nether Saxony". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 9. [Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Wiley]: 406–436. ISSN   0959-5295. JSTOR   2841707 . Retrieved 2025-05-13.

Further reading

• Ehlers, Caspar (2015). "Between Marklo and Merseburg: Assemblies and their Sites in Saxony from the Beginning of Christianization to the Time of the Ottonian Kings". Journal of the North Atlantic. Eagle Hill Institute: 134–140. ISSN   1935-1984. JSTOR   26687013 . Retrieved 2025-05-13.
• Rembold, Ingrid (2018). Conquest and Christianization: Saxony and the Carolingian world, 772-888. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-16459-7.