A ransom treaty of 60, 000 marks ( less a dowery remittance of 10, 000 marks ) was agreed at Durham on 28 March 1424 to which James attached his own seal.

On 24 March 1359 Edward and John concluded a new treaty in London whereby John would be released back to France on payment of a huge ransom and would make over to Edward III large tracts of French territory – including all of Charles of Navarre's French lands.

In May 1365, in Pamplona, he agreed to a treaty by which there was to be a general amnesty for his supporters, the remains of Navarrese executed and displayed for treason were to be returned to their families, prisoners would be mutually released without ransom.

The King signed a treaty in 1359 that would have ceded most of western France to England and imposed a ruinous ransom of 4 million ecus on the country.

On 3 October 1357, after several protracted negotiations with the Scots ' regency council, a treaty was signed at Berwick-upon-Tweed under which Scotland's nobility agreed to pay 100, 000 marks ( to be paid at the rate of 10, 000 marks per year ) as a ransom for their king.

He was American consul at Algiers in 1795-1797, securing the release of American prisoners held for ransom, and negotiating a treaty with Tripoli ( 1796 ).

The treaty was signed on 14 August 1371, and Haakon would have to be content with having his father released from captivity against a large ransom.

Soon after the bill was passed, Congress authorized $ 800, 000 to obtain a treaty with the Algerians and ransom the captives, triggering an amendment of the Act which would halt the construction of ships if peace was declared.

Darius, by now fearing for both his throne and his life, sent a letter to Alexander where he promised to pay him a substantial ransom in exchange for his prisoners of war, agreed to sign a treaty of alliance with Alexander, and agreed to give to Alexander half of his empire.

Although Eaton returned to the United States to a hero's welcome, he was disappointed and embittered by the treaty and outraged that ransom had to be paid for the freeing on the hostages.

Amongst the complicated items of the treaty was a clause that determined the surrender of 40 high-born hostages as guarantee for the payment of the king's ransom.

Edward III signed the Treaty of Westminster on 1 March 1353 accepting Charles de Blois as Duke of Brittany if the latter undertook to pay a ransom of 300, 000 crowns, and that Brittany signed a treaty of alliance " in perpetuity " with England, this alliance to be sealed by the marriage of the Montfortist claimant John de Montfort ( son of the earlier John de Montfort ) with Edward's ​​ daughter Margaret.

The treaty for the Scottish king's release was agreed on 3 October 1357 and four days later David was back in Scotland ; under the terms of the treaty, 100, 000 merks were to be paid to England over 10 years and England would retain its occupied lands until the ransom was paid in full.

He was also released as a hostage for the French treaty requirements, with no payment of ransom.

As part of the ransom, a peace treaty was drawn up that was intended to stop the raids.

Freed for a US $ 60 million ransom ( the largest on record at that time ), the ordeal triggered the company headquarters ' relocation to São Paolo, Brazil, and contributed to the March 1976 coup.

They demanded and received a ransom of $ 60 million in cash as well as $ 1. 2 million worth of food and clothing to be given to the poor.

The following spring a government agent sent from the Province of Massachusetts Bay to work on the exchange of prisoners paid his ransom of $ 103 Spanish dollars and $ 60 for Amos Eastman.

Tancred and Bohemund preferred to ransom their own Seljuk prisoners for money rather than an exchange for Baldwin, and the count remained in captivity in Mosul until 1108, when he was ransomed for 60 000 dinars by Joscelin of Courtenay.

To the dismay of many Americans, the new settlement included a ransom of $ 60, 000 paid for the release of prisoners from the USS Philadelphia and several U. S. merchant ships.

During 2004, approximately 60, 000 tourists visited the site of the ransom room in Cajamarca, Peru.

" After much bargaining, the famine-stricken citizens agreed to pay a ransom of 5, 000 pounds of gold, 30, 000 pounds of silver, 4, 000 silken tunics, 3, 000 hides dyed scarlet, and 3, 000 pounds of pepper.

He extorted $ 200, 000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate.

FBI agents assembled the ransom money from several Seattle-area banks — 10, 000 unmarked 20-dollar bills, many with serial numbers beginning with the letter " L " indicating issuance by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, most carrying a " Series 1969-C " designation — and made a microfilm photograph of each of them.

Between 1939 and 1955, Daku Man Singh had notched over 1, 000 armed robberies, 185 murders, and countless ransom kidnappings.

1, 083 Christian slaves and the British Consul were freed and the US ransom money of $ 10, 000 was repaid by the Ottoman pasha.

His release was eventually negotiated, in return for a ransom of 400, 000 livres tournois ( at the time France's annual revenue was only about 1, 250, 000 livres tournois ), and the surrender of the city of Damietta.

* 1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper ( AKA D. B. Cooper ) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $ 200, 000 in ransom money.

As to the agreement, John V with a Byzantine naval fleet went to Phocaea, paid the ransom demanded of 100, 000 Byzantine gold pieces, and brought Khalil back to Ottoman territory.

When Rome and Carthage made peace in 241 BC, Rome secured the release of all 8, 000 prisoners of war without ransom and, furthermore, received a considerable amount of silver as a war indemnity.

After having obtained 30, 000 Marks as a ransom for the hostages he had taken from the Flemish cities he had captured, Philip quickly retraced his steps in order to reach Dam.

Somoza gave in to their demands and paid a $ 500, 000 ransom, released 59 political prisoners ( including GPP chief Tomás Borge ), broadcast a communiqué with FSLN's call for general insurrection and gave the guerrillas safe passage to Panama.

** Adolph Coors III, the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped, and his captors demand a ransom of $ 500, 000.

Then, he is released on April 15 in exchange for $ 300, 000 in ransom.

The kidnappers demand $ 650, 000 ransom ; they are later apprehended.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

** " Machine-Gun " Kelly and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $ 200, 000 ransom.

After much bargaining, the Senate agrees to pay him a ransom of 5, 000 pounds of gold, 30, 000 pounds of silver, 4, 000 silken tunics, and 3, 000 hides dyed scarlet.

Passengers are released after a ransom of 16 million German marks is agreed.

In 1371, Haakon acquired the release of his father from German imprisonment against a large ransom sum of 12, 000 silver marks, which alone was more than the kingdom's ordinary tax incomes just before the outbreak of the plague.

Late in 1315 or in 1316, Harclay was taken captive by the Scots, who demanded 2000 marks in ransom.

After eleven years, he was released in return for a ransom of 100, 000 marks ( approximately £ 15 million in 2006 ).

The bishop arranged for Richard to be held at the imperial court and negotiated a payment plan for the ransom, 100, 000 marks, under the terms of which the emperor agreed to release Richard once 70, 000 marks had been paid and hostages for the payment of the rest had been received.

A ransom of seven million German marks ( approximately $ 2 million at the time ) was paid for his release.

The Jewish community was forced to contribute toward the king's ransom 5, 000 marks, more than three times as much as the contribution of the City of London.

The king never paid the final installment of his ransom, and the archbishop had to pay 10, 000 marks for his own release.

After he paid 9. 6 million marks of ransom they were released.

A ransom of 10, 000 marks was asked for him and Lord Grey was asked to swear an oath never to bear arms against Glyndŵr again.

A tax on the Plantagenet lands of 25 % of movables and income was required to pay the ransom of 100, 000 marks with a promise of 50, 000 more in 1194.

Tradition has it that a large ransom of 23, 000 marks silver was raised for him ( by the Rosh ), but Rabbi Meir refused it, for fear of encouraging the imprisonment of other rabbis.

In 1412 Dafydd Gam was captured by Glyndŵr ’ s men and estimates of the amount paid as his ransom recorded at the time, range from 200 to 700 marks, a large amount.