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1551, April 8

Flensburg

King Christian III of Denmark to Copenhagen: announces that he wants to put an end to the dominance of Hamburg traders in Iceland and will send warships there to restore the order on the island.

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, Tegnelser over alle Lande 3, f. 317

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Danish

Arkivalieronline

Diplomatarium Islandicum 12:108 (after a transcipt of Jon Sigurðsson in JS 372, 4to, p. 271)

Danish summary in Kancelliets brevbøger 1551-1555, p. 29.

Borgemestere och raad vtj Kiøpnehaffnn fick breff. som her eptherfylger. datum Flensborighus onsdagen nest epther søndagen quasimodogeniti anno etc. 1551.

Christian etc.

Wor gunst tilfforn. Wiider. att oss elsk^e. Matzs Claussen. etthers borgemestere. och andre etthers fuldmegtige haffuer nu en tiidtt lanngh fuld vvor gaardtt. eptherthij vij icke kunde thennom forløffue. før endt wij vorre kommen till en ende mett wore wndersotte aff Hamborg om hues offuerwold och wrett som theris kiøpmend haffuer giortt paa wortt land Islandtt. Oc agtte wij att lade mett thett allerførste wdgiørre nogre wore skiibe och folck till for^ne wortt land Islandt ther att kome same land wnderhørsomhedtt egenn, huilcken leylighett same etthers wdskiickede kunde mett ald wmbstendighed giffue etther tilkiende. attj ther kunde wiide etther epther att rette. Beffalendis etther gud. Datum eodem die loco et anno vt supra.

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