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of the most dreaded pirates engaged by Magdalena Nielson was the above
mentioned Bertram Hoike, who
caused extraordinary harm to the Hanseatic people in 1490 and 1491,
until he was executed in Helsingör.
Previously he had already haunted people in Liefland. He is told to
have had his headquarters in Samayten,
from where he started his raids during wintertime on Liefland by
crossing the frozen rivers. In Helsingör he took away the herring
of the fishers and the cattle of the farmers. He was captured and
decapitated in Helsingör. In the middleages the heads of the decapitated pirates were poked on poles for warning
and deterrence. |
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Jacob
Honnighusen also was engaged
by Magdalena Nielsen in the year 1491. She had bought a
ship from Oloff Stigson, captain of Wartburg (Varberg), and gave it to
Jacob H. to do harm to the Hanseatic league. On one of his raids he
captured the ship of Hans Hasenbandt
(Hasenbach, Husenbanck), who sailed from Lübeck to Danzig. However
the
ship was recaptured by the Danzig skipper Hans Broit (Preuth, Preyth). Jacob
H. escaped to his place of refuge, Kungel, in Norway. When he went
ashore
he was caught and imprisoned in Bohusen castle. His ship sailed again,
but seven seamen of the crew were from the Hasenbandt ship. They had
joined the pirates in order to save
their lives.
When the ship crossed the Belt towards the Fehmarn Sund the seven
seamen assaulted the pirates, two were killed and the other pirates
were brought to Rostock, where they lost their heads. Two pirates
escaped.
