The German Hansa

active aldermen Antwerp Baltic became Bergen Bourgneuf Bremen brought Bruges Bruges Kontor Brunswick burgesses cent centre century onwards charters Church cloth Cologne Cologne merchants commercial copper council Danish Danzig decline delegates Denmark Document Dortmund duke Dutch east economic Elbe emperor England English especially Europe export favour fifteenth century Flanders fleet Flemish foreign fourteenth century furs German merchants Gotland grain Grand Master granted guilders guilds Hamburg Hansa towns Hanseatic Hanseatic diet Hanseatic merchants Hanseatic privileges Hanseatic trade Hollanders Holstein important increased Kampen king Kontor later league Livonia Livonian towns London Low Countries Lüneburg Magdeburg marks north Germany North Sea northern Norway Novgorod organisation patriciate period Poland Pomeranian ports princes principal prosperity Prussian towns Reval Rhenish Riga Rostock sail salt Saxon sixteenth Skania Steelyard Stettin Stralsund Sweden Teutonic Order thirteenth century took town of Lübeck Visby Wendish towns Westphalian wine Wismar Wullenwever Zuiderzee