Peace of Copenhagen (1441)

With the Peace of Copenhagen , a better armistice treaty, the Hanso-Dutch War ended from 1438 to 1441.

The contract was signed in Copenhagen in 1441 by the cities of the Hanseatic League under the leadership of Lübeck councilor and later mayor Johann Lüneburg and the Dutch . The war began in May 1438 with the capture of twelve Hansa salt freighters in the roadstead at Brest , which led to an immediate blockade of the Øresund by Lübeck and its allies. With the peace treaty the monopoly of the Hanseatic League in shipping and trade in the Baltic Sea region was weakened. The opening of the Baltic Sea to Dutch ships that were larger than those of the Hanseatic League created effective competition. In the contract, the Dutch cities undertook to replace or return 22 ships from the Prussian and Livonian Hanseatic cities. The Dutch continued to pay 5,000 guilders to King Christopher III. of Denmark and pledged to the Wendish cities of the Hanseatic League to compensate for all this damage.

literature

• Philippe Dollinger : The Hanseatic League . 5th edition, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-37105-7 .

Web links

• Dutch Trade to the Baltic until the Peace of Copenhagen in 1441 (Engl.) ( Memento of 25 April 2001 in the Internet Archive )