 The Burgundian Duke, under whose flag the "St. Thomas" had run, brokered a peace between war-weary England and the Hanseatic League, restoring their trading rights.Paul Beneke had a wife named Margreta, and a daughter, Elsbeth.He is one of the historical characters who appear in Dorothy Dunnett's novels "To Lie With Lions" and "Caprice and Rondo" in the "House of Niccolò" series.