German Pirates - Klaus Stortebeker, Victual Brothers, Cord Widderich, Barnim VI, Duke of Pomerania, Magister Wigbold, Gottfried Michaelsen (Paperback)

Chapters: Klaus Stortebeker, Victual Brothers, Cord Widderich, Barnim Vi, Duke of Pomerania, Magister Wigbold, Gottfried Michaelsen, Klein Henszlein, Hennig Wichmann. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nikolaus Storzenbecher, or Klaus Stortebeker (c. 1360 20 October 1401{1400}), was a leader and the best known representative of a companionship of privateers known as the Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbruder). The Victual Brothers were originally hired during a war between Denmark and Sweden to fight the Danish and supply the besieged Swedish capital Stockholm with provisions (Latin "victualia"). After the end of the war, the Victual Brothers continued to capture merchant vessels for their own account and named themselves "Likedeelers" (literally: equal sharers). Skull alleged to have belonged to Stortebeker, found in 1878 Reconstruction of skull alleged to have belonged to Stortebeker.A large number of myths and legends surround the few facts known about Klaus Stortebeker's life. Stortebeker is only a nickname, meaning "empty the mug with one gulp" in Old German. The moniker refers to the pirate's supposed ability to empty a four-litre mug of beer in one gulp. At this time, pirates and other fugitives from the law often adopted a colorful nom de guerre. Born in Wismar, Stortebecker entered public consciousness around 1398, after the expulsion of the Victual Brothers from the Baltic island of Gotland, where they had set up a stronghold and headquarters in the town of Visby. During the following years, Stortebeker and some of his fellow captains (the most famous of whom were Godeke Michels, Hennig Wichmann and Magister Wigbold) captured Hanseatic ships, irrespective of their origin. Stortebeker had a stronghold in Marienhafe, East Frisia, from a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=292919