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She was the daughter of the Jewish Court Jew banker Godschalk from Recklinghausen in Germany. Her father was a money-lender to the nobility, and she is listed as his assistant and colleague from 1347.
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Hanna Recklinghausen
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She is the earliest woman merchant known by name in the Netherlands. Hanna van Recklinghausen is last heard of in 1349. During the Black death, massacres were conducted in on the Jewish population in many cities, where they were blamed for the plague accused of having poisoned the water wells.
Lochem lay in the area belonging to the Duke of Gelderland, Reginald III, Duke of Guelders, who in 1350 took a group of Jews in custody.
lieutenant is unknown if Hanna van Recklinghausen was a part of that group, and it is also unknown what happened to that group, if it was placed under the duke"s protection or killed. There is no further information of her after 1349.
