Barents Sea Company (1430 Custom)

The Danish Barents Sea Company, otherwise known as the Barents Sea Company, is a Danish company founded in 1440. It was established by the Danish crown to claim profits and re-open the trade routes between Norway and the fabled land of Bjarmia, which straddles the White Sea. However, it only intensified conflict with the expanding Kingdom of Smolensk, later Russia, which sent its own explorers to capture Arkhangelsk, Mezen, and then the Kola Peninsula. The principal cause of the Russo-Danish War (1444), the colony was difficult to retain, incurring large debts for the crown.