16011110OLD00

1601, November 10

Oldenburg

Count John VII of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: complaint about the royal prohibition to sail to Iceland. He claims the trade of his Copenhagen subjects will not suffer if the Oldenburg merchants use the former licenses, which the count had hoped would have been extended.

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.

Oldenburg, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv

Best. 20, -25, no. 6, no. 54

Two bifolios

20x35cm

Paper

Outer bifolio almost blank.

foliated 117-120

Clearly written, a few corrections in the same hand.

High German

Numbered 17.

Facsimile not (yet) available