Medieval Sourcebook:
Theodore, Count of Holland:
Grant of a Hanse to the Citizens of Dortrecht, 1200
The townsmen of Dortrecht were organized in a gild which they called a
"hanse."
I, Theodore, by the grace of God, Count of Holland, and Adelaide, Countess of Holland,
my wife, wish it to be known to all, both present and future, that we decree that our
townsmen of Dortrecht may enjoy in their own right the following freedom in the said town,
namely, that it is permitted to no one in Dortrecht to cut cloth for retail sale except to
those who are designated by this trade, being called cutters of cloth, and except they be
in the hanse and fraternity of the townsmen belonging to Dortrecht.
And that this charter, instituted by us, may forever be secure and intact, we
corroborate it by affixing our seals thereto, and the signatures of witnesses.
These are the witnesses, etc.,
Source.
From: C. Gross, The Gild Merchant, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890), Vol. I, p.
293, reprinted in Roy C. Cave & Herbert H. Coulson, A Source Book for Medieval
Economic History, (Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1936; reprint ed., New York:
Biblo & Tannen, 1965), p. 219.
Scanned by Jerome S. Arkenberg, Cal. State Fullerton. The text has been modernized by
Prof. Arkenberg.
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