Marchfield (assembly)

There is no reference to an annual "field of March" (campus Martius) from the Merovingian period (481–751).

For example, King Childebert II (575–596) promulgated edicts at three assemblies on March 1 in the last decade of his reign.

[4] There is no evidence in Merovingian sources, however, that campaigns were more likely to begin in March or early spring than any other time of the year.

[1] The Marchfield was also a place for royal patronage, the meting out of rewards and punishments and maintaining a direct link between the king and the soldiery.

[5] The assembly could also act as a tribunal, trying persons accused of high treason.