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{{Short description|1370 peace treaty between Denmark and the Hanseatic League}}{{For|the Treaty of Stralsund in 1354|Treaty of Stralsund (1354)}}{{Infobox Treaty
| name             = Treaty of Stralsund
|long_name=Treaty between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Hanseatic League| image            = Stralsund, KHM, Urkunde Friede von Stralsund (2007-03-10).JPG
|image_size=280|border=yes| caption          = The official treaty in the [[Stralsund Museum of Cultural History]]
| type             = [[Peace treaty]]
| date_signed      = 24 May 1370
| location_signed  = [[Stralsund]], [[Duchy of Pomerania]]<br />(present-day [[Germany]])
| parties          = [[Denmark]]<hr />[[Hanseatic League]]
|ratifiers=[[Henning Podebusk]]<br />[[:sv:Niels Jensen|Niels Jensen]]<br />[[:de:Jakob Pleskow|Jakob Pleskow]]<br />[[:de:Bertram Wulflam|Bertram Wulflam]]
}}

The '''Treaty of Stralsund''' ({{Langx|da|Stralsundfreden 1370}}, {{Abbr|sgd|signed}} 24 May 1370) ended the [[Danish-Hanseatic War (1361–1370)|Second Danish-Hanseatic War]] between the [[Hanseatic League]] and the [[Medieval Denmark|Kingdom of Denmark]]. The Hanseatic League reached the peak of its power by the conditions of this treaty.<ref name="MedScan">Phillip Pulsiano, Kirsten Wolf, ''Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia'', Taylor & Francis, 1993, p.265, {{ISBN|0-8240-4787-7}}</ref><ref name="EncWH">Peter N. Stearns, William Leonard Langer, ''The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged'', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001, p.265, {{ISBN|0-395-65237-5}}</ref><ref name="Atlas">Angus MacKay, David Ditchburn, ''Atlas of Medieval Europe'', Routledge, 1997, p.171, {{ISBN|0-415-01923-0}}</ref>[[File:Die Gartenlaube (1860) b 821.jpg|thumb|''Denmark's humiliation by the German Hansa League, i Stralsund 1370.'' By [[Ernst Keil]] in 1864.|left|204x204px]]

The war began in 1361 when Danish king [[Valdemar Atterdag]] conquered [[Scania]], [[Öland]], [[Valdemar Atterdag's invasion of Gotland|and Gotland]] with the major Hanseatic town [[Visby]].<ref name="EncWH" /> In 1362, a Hanseatic counterstrike was repelled by the Danish fleet at [[Helsingborg]]. This led Hansa to accept a truce culminating in the unfavourable Treaty of Vordingborg, depriving the league of many of its privileges.<ref name="EncWH" /> Unwilling to accept the treaty, the Hanseatic League, which used to be a trade league rather than a political union, raised a fleet through the [[Confederation of Cologne]] in 1367 and renewed their Swedish alliances.<ref name="EncWH" /> Valdemar and his Norwegian son-in-law [[Haakon VI]] were utterly defeated in the following battles<ref name="Atlas" />

The treaty was negotiated for Denmark by [[Seneschal in Scandinavia|Drost]] [[Henning Podebusk]] and for the Hanseatic League by the [[Burgomaster|burgomasters]] [[Jakob Pleskow]] of [[Lübeck]] and [[Bertram Wulflam]] of [[Stralsund]]. In the treaty, [[Visby|Visby's]] freedom was reestablished. Furthermore, Denmark had to assure the Hanseatic League of free trade in the entire [[Baltic Sea]]. The Danes had to waive taxes on German merchants in Scania as well. This gave the Hanseatic League a monopoly on the Baltic fish trade. The league also gained the right to veto against Danish throne candidates.<ref name="EncWH" />

==See also==
*[[List of treaties]]
*{{Annotated link|Treaty of Copenhagen (1441)}}
*{{Annotated link|Battle of Helsingborg (1362)}}
*{{Annotated link|Dano-Hanseatic War (1426–1435)}}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Dollinger, Philippe (1999). ''The German Hansa.'' Routledge. {{ISBN|0-415-19072-X}}.

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