It is true that mormaers are found inland, but an analogy may be made with Carolingian border officials ‘ margrave ’ and ‘marquis’ which became titles for members of the nobility far away from a frontier.
The margravate took its name from the town of Brandenburg, west of Berlin.
Any road to Austria would have to cross the Rhön mountains and a myriad of tiny margravates and bishoprics, then continue through the Bavarian forests until it reached the border.
Although it would remain under Bohemian control for most, but not all, of the next several centuries, Moravia was actually run as a separate margravate, usually under the control of a younger son of the Bohemian ruler.
Although Moravia had lost its primacy to Bohemia in the 10th century, becoming a margravate in 1029, it maintained separate musical interests.
Long after Charlemagne, and even long after the Middle Ages, there were lords in Germany called margraves, still reflecting the administrative inheritance from the early Middle Ages.
In order for his margraves, especially, to rule the conquered peoples, Charlemagne had their customs set down in writing.
