It is unlikely that he was not a "wealthy German merchant" as she described him.
It is still disputed whether this development was a planned process initiated by the king and German merchants, or a rather spontaneous growth.
They told that all who had been involved in the robbery of German merchants had already been killed.
It was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the city's German merchants.
Her mother had married a German merchant and gone away.
Many citizens were German merchants, settling here in the course of the Ostsiedlung.
Migration of German merchants to the town resumed in 1257.
German merchants also began trading extensively on the Baltic.
Local shops run by German merchants were plundered, and the population taxed.
A German merchant who moved to England together with his family.