A Companion to the Hanseatic League

72 Sarnowsky The Prussian towns were the first to ask for common measures against Denmark and Norway and tried to win over the W ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 73 was to be continued at least for three years after the peace. The detailed arrangeme ...

74 Sarnowsky 1369 and finally to the peace treaty of Stralsund on 24 May 1370 which marks the zenith of the towns’ power. But th ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 75 But at least the peace had also been confirmed by several leading members of the Dan ...

76 Sarnowsky discuss about the prolongation,48 but it seems that nothing came out of it. The ‘Confederation of Cologne’ ended in ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 77 Livonian towns and to be administrated by them. If the ransom was not paid within th ...

78 Sarnowsky brothers soon renewed their attacks on Hanseatic ships, partly also backed by the counts of Oldenburg, and remained ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 79 If there were conflicts between their most important territorial lord, the Livonian ...

80 Sarnowsky and on Gotland. These privileges would now remain valid even in times of war between Novgorod on the one side and S ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 81 asking to find ways for an agreement and peace with Flanders since the trade had bee ...

82 Sarnowsky forests.66 In February 1388, this was followed by protests of the merchants in the Kontor in London who sided with ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 83 while abroad.70 Nevertheless, the main problems remained: the levy of ton- nage and ...

84 Sarnowsky 1389, the threat of exclusion alone led to a change. Sarnow was overthrown and finally executed early in 1393, and ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 85 while the members of the old town council claimed to be the legitimate repre- sentat ...

86 Sarnowsky Livonian towns and Braunschweig in June 1410 about possible consequences. The Western European princes, especially ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 87 of the urban patriciate.81 Though the oath of obedience by the craftsmen was renewed ...

88 Sarnowsky but would be caught and executed. If any town council was weakened in its autonomy or even deposed by civic unrest, ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 89 Anglo-Hanseatic relations, and when Denmark regained Gotland from the Teutonic Knigh ...

90 Sarnowsky crisis of Lübeck to keep the town out of the conflict, and when the old town council returned to Lübeck, the mayor ...

The ‘Golden Age’ of the Hanseatic League 91 His successor was Christopher iii of Bavaria, Eric’s nephew, who renewed the towns’ ...