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amount is more realistic than the greater amount - one could
realistically imagine a revenue of c 50,000 marks silver. It is the
lower figure in each element of the estimated revenues which has been
entered into this dataset. These figures represent the gross revenue.
Erslev estimates that a good part of it went to local officials and
enfiefments, and most likely only 40-50% ended up in the royal coffers.
The second estimate of the revenues of the Danish crown 'in the time of
king Hans' (1481-1513) was drawn up by the administration of King
Frederik in c. 1524 in an attempt to estimate its financial strength.
Its figures are probably exaggerated. It lists only the revenues from
demesnes and royal prerogatives. Revenues from the domains, the len,
constitute more than a third of the total, towns somewhat less, while
the revenues from the Scania market and Sound dues only amount to a
seventh. A last and not unimportant item is the revenue from the royal
assize, the Kongelige retterting. Extraordinary taxes were not yet
included in an average budget. There is reason to be sceptical of the
figures, apart from the one item which can be checked from other
sources - the Sound toll - which seems to be fairly correct. The
figures given in the survey are far larger than the amounts which
actually reached the king's treasury. It is a gross account, which
registers all revenues, and only a very small part reached the central
administration. The estimate cannot be dated more exactly than to
c.1524. In this period, the distinction between demesnes (kongelev)
and patrimony disappeared, and all crown land was treated in the same
way. The royal assize (kongelige retterting) became important from the
1340s, providing about 14.2% of the royal revenue by 1500.
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Filename: g130dd19.tab
Metadata of file as originally deposited:
Data Set Name: \POUL\DAND019 Type:
Observations: 21 Record Len: 268
Variables: 33
Label: Revs of Danish finansdeputation 1820-40
Date created: 30 January 1992
Date last altered:
Raw data file used: c:\poul\denrev5.dat
ESFDB dataset: c:\poul\dand019.ssd
Source: Hans Chr. Johansen, Danmarks historie, bind 9
(Kíbenhavn l985), pp. 310-11.
Source subset: Revenues of the Danish Finansdeputation, 1820-40
Source subset title:
Owner of file: Dr Bjírn Poulsen
Author of program: MMB
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