The Victual Brothers were common pirates. They took to the seas to take what they could – generally with the use of force, since the Hanseatic boats promised rich spoils. The Victual Brothers had a problem, though: Where and how would they sell the many precious goods? Which market accepted the change of role from pirate to merchant? The Hanseatic League had made provisions accordingly, as Dr. Gregor Rohmann has discovered during his research in Lübeck’s city archive.
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