HANSdoc Database

15390000LUB00

[early 1539]

[Lübeck]

Skipper Herman Vurborn to Lübeck: relates how Hamburg merchants do not allow anyone else to trade in Iceland, although they are free to do so, and that he has sailed to Iceland himself last year, with a license of the Danish king, and as he sent a messenger to the governour to show him the license, the Hamburg merchants tried to kill him. Therefore, it is requested from Hamburg to let other merchants trade in peace.

15390427GOT00

1539, April 27

Gottorp

King Christian III of Denmark to Thomas Koppen from Hamburg: quittance for 100 Lübeck mark, which was the royal levy for the Faroes.

15400118HAM00

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1540, January 18

Hamburg

Hamburg to king Christian III of Denmark: send the testimony of merchants with Iceland about the violence in the previous year on request of governour Claus van der Marwitz.

15450000XXX01

1545

King Christian III of Denmark confirms the lease of the Faroes to Thomas Koppen, who will have all incomes of the island, and no one else is allowed to trade there, as was originally decided by King Frederick I.

15450320KOL00

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1545, March 20

Kolding

Adam Schneydewint and Lutke Schmidt, representatives of Hamburg, complain that governour Otto Stigsson in Iceland is not treating Hamburg merchants equally to others, and now has unrightfully taken fishing boats from them, intended to help the Icelanders fish, and demand these back.

15470104KOL00

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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.

15470214KOL00

1547, February 14

Kolding

King Christian III of Denmark to Thomas Koppen: Koppen receives two parts of the church goods in the Faroes, for which he shall pay annually 100 Lübeck mark to the school on the islands, 100 mark to the hospital, and 500 mark to the king each year on Easter.

15470214KOL01

1547, February 14

Kolding

King Christian III of Denmark to Thomas Koppen from Hamburg: quittance for 200 Lübeck mark, which was the royal levy for the Faroes for the years 1545 and 1546.

15470215KOL00

1547, February 15

Kolding

King Christian III of Denmark to Thomas Koppen from Hamburg: quittance for his payment of the levies for the ecclesiastical goods of the Faroes for the years 1545 and 1546, which were received by treasurer Jørgen Pedersen.

15470819KOB00

1547, August 19

Copenhagen

Vaschke Paschkens to king Christian III of Denmark: asks as faithful merchant with Iceland to send a letter to Lüneburg to support him as the only rightful heir of his deceased uncle Boldwin Bierstedt, against his other uncle Hein Bierstedt.