HANSdoc Database

14840120BRU00

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1484, January 20

Bruges

Eldermen of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bruges to [Danzig]: declare that the statement of Clauwes Sluck, who claimed that the Kontor has made an arrangement with the Spanish pirates who stole the ship of Hinrick Scroder from Danzig, which came from Iceland, is not true, and ask to send representatives to negotiate the matter with Spain in Bruges.

14910500ANT00

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[1491, May 2-June 22]

[Antwerp]

Report from Danzig (Gda?sk) about the negotiations between England and the Hanse in Antwerp, in which English merchants complain about damage done to them by Germans, among others that they were driven out from Icelandic harbours by men from Hamburg.

14910610ANT00

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1491, June 10

Antwerp

Complaints of the English against hindrance of their trade by the Hanse, brought forth during negotiations in Antwerp, among others of two ships from Hull in Iceland, which were attacked by merchants from Hamburg and Lübeck with a total damage of 1061 pounds.

14970626ANT00

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1497, [June 26?]

Antwerp

Hanseatic complaints about hindrance by the English, among others of skippers from Lübeck and Hamburg in Iceland, brought forth during negotiations in Antwerp.

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.

15640811KOB00

1564, August 11

Copenhagen

Marcus Heine, servant of the Loitz family, to Hieronimus Tenner, German chancellor in Denmark: asks to lower the amount paid to the king for sulfur exported from Iceland, because it is impossible to get sulfur from Iceland in large amounts, and the price is lowering due to the opening of new sulfur mines in Krakow and Goslar. Also about other themes, including the theft of a load of cannonballs by the Swedes, which was destined for Denmark.

15641203STE00

1564, December 3

Stettin (Szczecin)

Stefan Loitz to king Frederick II of Denmark: complains that he cannot pay the expected tolls for the Icelandic sulfur trade, because the demand is falling due to the opening of sulfur mines in Germany. The letter also treats other dealings with the Danish king.