HANSdoc Database

15130618KOB00

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1513, June 18

Report of Hamburg secretary Johann Reinken about the negotiations of Hanseatic cities with Denmark in Copenhagen, in which among others the King and the Council of the Realm state that Bremen and Hamburg are only allowed to trade in Iceland if they bring the fish to England.

15130726KOB00

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1513, July 26

Copenhagen

Agreement between King Christian II of Denmark-Norway and the Wendish cities, in which the Hanseatic privileges in Bergen are renewed, among others that Hanseatic merchants will refrain from the trade with Iceland, except if they bring the fish to England.

15130812NYK00

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1513, August 12

Nyköping

King Christian II of Denmark to the Wendish cities: declares that, after complaints from the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, it is forbidden to trade directly with Iceland, unless the fish is brought directly to England.

15140000BER00

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[1514]

Complaints of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, collected for the negotiations with the Danish king in Oslo, in which the direct trade of Hamburg, Bremen and Holland with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes is presented as the main reason for the Kontor's demise.

15140730LUB00

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1514, July 30

[Lübeck]

List of Johann Rode, secretary of Lübeck, with issues to be discussed during negotiations with King Christian II of Denmark in Oslo, among others that the Icelandic trade will remain as agreed upon the year before.

15150800OSL00

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[1515, beginning of August]

[Oslo]

Answer of King Christian II of Denmark to the Hanseatic envoys during negotiations in Oslo, among others that he has confirmed the existing regulations about the Icelandic trade.

15150818KOB00

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1515, August 18

Copenhagen

King Christian II of Denmark proclaims that it is forbidden for German merchants to trade in Iceland, unless the fish is directly brought to England, on the penalty of loosing protection and the use of privileges in Norway.

15210327FLE00

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1521, March 27

Flensburg

Tyle Persson to King Christian II of Denmark: sends him part of the English cloth that was still in Hamburg, and regrets that he cannot come to see him, but has heard that lawmen Vigfús Erlendsson has been made governor of Iceland with the support of men from Hamburg, and requests to write to Hamburg that they should not mingle in Icelandic politics and not hinder him in his own office as governor of Iceland and the Faroes.

15230222KOB00

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1523, February 22

Copenhagen

King Christian II of Denmark to Iceland: proclaims that no foreigners - German or English - are allowed to trade in Iceland before they have paid an annual toll of 20 guilders.

15250000VEE00

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[Late 1524 or early 1525]

Veere

Report of Corneille Double, secretary of the exiled King Christian II of Denmark, about the crimes of Joachim Wollenweuer, who was enfeoffed with the Faroes in 1520, against the royal authorities on the islands in the years after his enfeoffment had expired, and the attempt to arrest him in the town of Veere.