Marklo was, according to the ''
Vita Lebuini antiqua'', an important source for early Saxon history, the tribal capital of the
Saxons
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...
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." After the conquest of
old Saxony
Old Saxony was the homeland of the Saxons who fought the Frankish empire during the Early Middle Ages, until they conquered it and converted it into a Carolingian stem duchy in the 8th century, the Duchy of Saxony. Contemporary authors such a ...
by
Charlemagne
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in 782 the tribal councils of Marklo were abolished.
Marklo was identified by the 19th-century
anthropologist
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Henry Hoyle Howorth with the village of
Markenah in the
County of Hoya
The County of Hoya (German: ''Grafschaft Hoya'') was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Lower Saxony. It was centred on the town of Hoya on the middle Weser river, between Bremen
Bremen (Low German also ...
near ''Heiligen Ioh'', a "sacred wood" and
Adelshorn in
Lower Saxony
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.
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* {{cite book , last=Rembold , first=Ingrid , title=Conquest and Christianization: Saxony and the Carolingian world, 772-888 , publisher=Cambridge University Press , publication-place=Cambridge , date=2018 , isbn=978-1-108-16459-7
Old Saxony