SOCIETY — 156/262 — Kuttenberg councillors
We reconstructed The Kuttenberg City Council primarily from names documented to have actually been on the council. However, we often know little about the real bearers of these names. Andreas Plumel, in 1403, a bailiff of that name did indeed serve in Kuttenberg Wenceslas Vorsucher, wealthy burgher, real person (his real name was Christopher) Prokop Eldris, gunsmith, fictional character Jerome Naaz, representative of the Kuttenberg patrician family, probably never served on the council Franz Rosenthal, wealthy coiner, was not on the council until 1412 Enderlin, swordsmith, burgher of that name actually lived in Kuttenberg Nicholas Krondel, armoursmith, fictional character Havel, innkeeper, fictional character Fridusch Kumel, wealthy burgher, real person
TRIVIA
— For this entry, no available data was accessible regarding both the councillors and their town hall. Instead, we bring you a limited insight into how much a Kuttenberg groschen could buy you. In the game, for the combined costs of organizing a tournament, councillor Fridusch Kumel will ask of you 3000 groschen.
To put this number into perspective, in the 14th century, for the ordinary villager, half a loaf of bread cost only a few parvus (1 groschen = 12 parvus) while a hen could be purchased for about one and a half groschen. Skilled labour was modestly rewarded; a mason might earn two to three groschen for a full day of work, and a bricklayer could expect about one groschen a day for the duration of a project.
More substantial purchases, such as a pair of leather boots or a bag of linen might cost around a 12 groschen, and barley to feed a horse for over a month set an owner back about 15 groschen. For more serious investments, a good cow was valued at roughly 46 groschen, while a helmet with visor approached fifty groschen.
As for the more wealthy; a simple town house might cost over 300 groschen, armour of Milanese work exceeded 800, and a war horse could set you back as far as 1250 groschen or more.
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