Vinland and The Alliance of Catholic Nations in Trade (1426)
The Alliance of Catholic Nations in Trade was a treaty of 1426 between the Kingdoms of England, Holy Roman Empire and the Kalmar Union, to protect the inherent benefit of Whitmount on the trade of all three nations. Eric of Pomerania, whose Catholic ties had recently become stronger due to his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, was wary of his southern neighbours, the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein. In 1424, a verdict of the Holy Roman Empire by Sigismund, King of Germany, recognising Eric as the legal ruler of South Jutland, was ignored by the Holsteiners. The long war was a strain on the Danish economy as well as on the unity of the north. In response to this, and on the recommendation of his wife Philippa of England, he called a council in Roskilde between himself, Henry VI (represented at the council by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester), and Sigismund (represented at the council by Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg). Although the original document drawn up between the three powers...
