HANSdoc Database

14980405BER00

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1498, April 5

[Bergen]

Eldermen of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen to the representatives of the Hanseatic cities gathered in Lübeck: complaint about the commercial activity of two Bremen ships in Shetland in 1494, and how after the governor of Bergen had confiscated commodities of one of them, he had to release these after letters sent by the Duke of Holstein and the Count of Oldenburg.

15090814HAM00

1509, August 14

Hamburg

[Hamburg] to the king Frederick I of Denmark: complaint about hindrance of Cordt Froudendal's activities in the harbour Botsand in Iceland by English merchants.

15240623LUB00

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1524, June 23 - August 23

[Lübeck, Copenhagen]

Diary of Gert Krudup and Hans Ebbrecht, eldermen of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, as well as their secretary Erasmus Boddecker, of their journey from Lübeck to Copenhagen, where they visited the Diet during which King Frederick I was crowned, and where the privileges in Bergen were negotiated.

15240800KOB00

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[1524, August]

[Copenhagen]

King Frederick I of Denmark confirms the Hanseatic privileges in Bergen, and allows the Icelandic trade for German merchants, but not the direct trade with Shetland and the Faroes.

15250707LUB00

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[1525, July 7 - 29]

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, in which among others the trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes is discussed, during which Bremen claims that the fish from these lands does not push the fish from Bergen from the market, and Hamburg claims that merchants from other nations are sailing there anyway, whereupon it is decided that the Bergen merchants should accept this trade.

15260500KOB00

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[1526, middle of May]

Instruction of King Frederick I of Denmark to governor Hinrich Rantzow in Rendsburg, who is sent to the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, among others to discuss ships which are ready to sail from Hamburg to Iceland.

15290207GOT00

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1529, February 7

Gottorp

King Frederick I of Denmark to the inhabitants of the Faroes: announces that he has given the Faroes to commander Eski Bille of Bergenhus as a fief, and that all taxes and levies will have to given to him.

15290901BER00

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1529, September 1

Bergenhus

Eski Bilde, commander of Bergenhus, to King Frederick I of Denmark: sends a part of fishes and other commodities, of which the rest will come later, and reports that the ship that he had sent to the Faroes has wrecked.

15291128GOT00

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1529, November 28

Gottorp

King Frederick I of Denmark to Eski Bilde, commander of Bergenhus: writes that he has given the Faroes to Thomes Koppen from Hamburg as a fief, under the same levies as in king Hans' time, and asks not to hinder him.

15291128SLE00

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1529, November 28

Schleswig

Royal Danish chancellor Claus Gørtze to Eski Bilde, commander of Bergenhus: King Frederick I of Denmark has enfeoffed Thomas Koppen, his former secretary and now citizen of Hamburg, with the Faroes, and asks not to hinder him.