 Sherds from the Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk era have been found here.An important Hanbali judge, "Amin-ed-dyn 'Abd-er-Rahman", was born in the village in the early 15th century.Marda was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers under the name of "Marda", as being in the "nahiya" ("subdistrict") of Jabal Qubal, part of the Sanjak of Nablus.