HENRIKSSON, THOMAS [SSNE 5192]

Surname

HENRIKSSON, HENRYSON

First name

THOMAS

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

On March 24 1572 King Frederik II of Denmark-Norway wrote to Erik Munk regarding the Scot Thomas Henriksson. The king had learnt that Henrikssøn was abusing the privileges he had received in good faith from Frederik, who had supplied him with a free pass for him and his ship in the Øresund. Henriksson was harassing other foreign merchant ships off the coast of Norway, and Frederik wanted him arrested and his cargo seized. Although Erik Munk had fulfilled the king's orders, Frederik again wrote to him on 15 June 1572, saying that he felt the punishment had not been harsh enough and that he wanted Henriksson re-tried, preferably in front of as many shipowners and merchants that he had harassed as possible. Munk appears not to have replied to this second royal command, which led Frederik to send another man, Mogens Svale, to Norway to investigate in October 1572

Norske Riksregistranter, ed. S. Petersen and O.G. Lundh, vol 2, (Christiania 1863), pp.7-8, 38-39, 46-47.

Service record

SCOTLAND, NORWAY

Arrived 1572-03-23

Departed 1572-10-08

Capacity PRIVATEER, purpose NAVAL