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Konge, kirke og samfund


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the Council and its imposition all over the realm. Correspondence and accounts show in detail the levying by tax collectors and the final payments to the King’s residence by the appointed officials. The coronation tax was unusual in the stipulation of an exact amount, 100,000 guilders, which the Council swore to provide before the Kieler Umschlag in January 1526. The amount included not only the taxation of the peasants, but also four other special taxes, i.e. of bishops, the holders of fiefs, the towns and the parish churches.