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1547, January 4

Kolding

King Christian III of Denmark leases Iceland to Copenhagen for ten years for an annual payment of 1000 Lübische mark, on the condition that they appoint their own governour and supply the island with commodities.

Created for and published on the HANSdoc website of the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, by Bart Holterman in the context of the research project Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: interdisciplinary Studies of the Hanse. Licensed CC BY.

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet

Danske Kancelli, Registre over alle Lande 5, fol. 501v.

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Diplomatarium Islandicum 11:477
Magnus Ketilsson, Kongelige allernaadigste forordninger og aabne breve I, 255-256
Finnur Jónsson, Historia ecclesiastica Islandiae II, 301
Christian den tredies historie (Copenhagen 1778), vol. II, 420

Modern Danish excerpt in Danske Kancelliregistranter 1535-1550, p. 326.

Borgemestre och Raadmendtt wti Kiøpnehaffuen fick Breff som her eptther ffylger 1547.

Christiann et cetera.

Giøre alle witterligtt att wij aff wor synnerlige gunst och naade haffue wntt oc forlentt oc nu mett thette wortt obne breff wnde oc forlene oss elskelige Borgemestere og raadmend wti wor Staedtt Kiøpnehaffuen oc Huilche the tiill thennom tagendis worder wortt oc Norgis Kronnens Landtt Jslandtt mett Vespenøøe att haffue Nyde bruge oc beholle mett samme Landtz jnkomme told oc ald aunden wor oc Kronens rentte oc rettighed som Otte Stissen sist i were haffde1 wtj Thye sambffelde Aar nest eptther thette wort breffuis datum regnendis dog mett saadanne skell att thee aarligenn ther aff schulle giiffue tiill oss oc kronenn huer Sancti Michels dag Jm marck Lüb(ske). som j Lybeck oc Hamborig gienge oc gieffue ere oc Nar ther forne Borgemester oc raadmend haffuer hafftt wtj theris brug oc werre wtj iij eller iiij aar oc wij thaa forffare kunde oc oss oc Kronenn miere rentte ther aff kand tilkomme tha schulle thee siidenn giffue ther ydermiere wdaff eptther somm thee ther omm kunde mett oss bliffue tiill eens oc schulle thee sielff huertt aar lade besegle Landitt wtd fran wor Staed Kiøbnehaffuen. Sameledis schulle thee oc skiicke tiid tiill Landett enn goed forffarenn Mand som alle tiidt schall werre ther paa landitt och haffue tiilsiun att wore wndersotte saa møgett som Norgis loug oc rett er oc ingen tilstedis att wforrettis emod Logenn. cum Jnhibitione solita.

Datum Kolinghus tisdagen post Nyaarsdag Anno 1547.

Transcript copied from Diplomatarium Islandicum.