A Companion to the Hanseatic League

52 Hammel-Kiesow princely protection for the Low German merchants came to an end with the termination of Waldemar’s rule of Nort ...

The Early Hanses 53 with problems, eventually led to a situation beginning in 1254, in which Lübeck received regular papal guara ...

54 Hammel-Kiesow From the privileges jointly obtained by the merchants, one can conclude that the people of Lübeck were continua ...

The Early Hanses 55 Hermann Hoyer, who was later joined by in the negotiations by Jordan Boizenburg of Hamburg. Both were nuncii ...

56 Hammel-Kiesow in travels upon the land or the sea. Such treaties often included the noble sover- eigns. On the other hand, th ...

The Early Hanses 57 1249, most probably because of their competition for the herring grounds near Rugen, and Greifswald only joi ...

58 Hammel-Kiesow the seaside towns had already been able to obtain just such a pledge from the King of Denmark.123 Thus, with th ...

The Early Hanses 59 German merchants in London merely formed a union; a complete fusion only came about during the fifteenth cen ...

60 Hammel-Kiesow Lübeck argued that this corresponded with the reinstitution of the old law. Only a few cities (Riga and Osnabru ...

The Early Hanses 61 necessary, to Erich Menved. This pledge stood in total contradiction to Lübeck’s status as a free imperial c ...

62 Hammel-Kiesow to a single execution for all participants. These joint privileges were also avail- able in Flanders, but were ...

The Early Hanses 63 Low German merchants had received a similar affirmation in 1309. The kontor, which, at first, was the only o ...

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The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 65 1474), its privileges were not automatically renewed, and the merchants from England ...

66 Sarnowsky developed as can be seen from a letter of Lübeck to Osnabrück from about the same time.8 Faced with problems in Fla ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 67 additional regulations for the Kontor and its aldermen. This has been inter- preted ...

68 Sarnowsky continue or get acceptance and ratification if they were agreed by all towns involved. The blockade was not only th ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 69 and 1407, mostly meeting in Lübeck.20 The strategy agreed on by the assembly of Janu ...

70 Sarnowsky It was probably the success of the blockade in Flanders that encouraged them to resist Waldemar, who had at this po ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 71 because the money was to be collected and then distributed centrally, not, as later, ...