Hungarian copper trade and the restitution of Ladislaus the Short’s rule in Poland (1304-1312) Cover Image

Handel miedzią węgierską a restytucja rządów Władysława Łokietka w Polsce (1304-1312)
Hungarian copper trade and the restitution of Ladislaus the Short’s rule in Poland (1304-1312)

Author(s): Tomasz Jasiński
Subject(s): History, Economic history, Political history, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Hungarian copper trade; Flanders; Dortmund; Soest; Lübeck; Gdańsk; Toruń; Cracow; Košice; Amadej; Ladislaus the Short; Maria of Bytom; Vogt Albert’s mutiny; Battle of Rozgony;

Summary/Abstract: The author argues that the struggle over controlling the trade route, by which Hungarian copper was transported from Spiš to Flanders, exerted immense influence on the circumstance of regaining power in Poland by Ladislaus the Short in 1304-1306. It seems probable that the mutiny of Vogt Albert in Cracow and its consequences were directly related to the events in Hungary in 1311-1312. The main participants in copper trade were Westphalian merchants from Dortmund and Soest, who settled down in Toruń in 1305.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 84
  • Page Range: 93-138
  • Page Count: 46
  • Language: Polish