wullenwever

Updated: May 4, 2025

With this later stage there is associated the historic tragedy of Jürgen Wullenwever, that genial and daring democratic innovator, who, in an endeavor to conquer Denmark in order to restore the prestige of the Hansa, was betrayed by his patrician fellow-burghers and hanged.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 : (From Barbarossa to Dante)