Marca Geronis
March of the Billungs
was the Marca Geronis, notice the Mark Merseburg which was one of its partitions.The Marca Geronis or March of Gero.
Because Siegfried's and Gero's comital seat was
Thuringian March".[3]
Part of the complication involved in ascertaining the territoriality of the march over which Gero ruled is the nature of the margravial title in tenth-century Saxony. It may have signified territorial governance, but on the other hand may have been an honorific for especially powerful counts signifying nothing more than a preeminence in providing defence of the provinces in which were found their counties. It has been suggested that marcher jurisdictions even overlapped within provinces.
In 965, Merseburg became the centre of a smaller, more restricted march belonging to Gunther. On Gunther's death in 982, it was united to the March of Meissen.
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