Fugger

The family Fugger is a family of merchants and Banquier S of the Germanic Holy roman Empire, which dominated European finance at the end Moyen-âge and during the Renaissance. They are at the origin of the modern practice of the bank and finance. It is considered that Jacob Fugger gathered the greatest private fortune of its time.

Origin

They were anoblis by the Maximilien emperor, in reward of the services that they had returned to him, and whose posterity remains at the 19th century in the branch of the counts de Fugger, established in Souabe, and combined at the most famous houses of Germany.

Portraits

Dominique Custos, engraver of Antwerp, published a succession of portraits of the principal characters of this house, under the following title: Fuggerorum and Fuggerarum quœ in familia natœ, quœve infamiïiam iransivenmt, what extant, œre expressai imagine , in-fol. This volume contains 127 portraits very quite serious on copper, with short descriptions of the titles and qualities of the people whom they represent. This collection appeared for the first time towards 1595: the specimens of the second pulling carry the date of 1618; those of the third, that of 1620: descriptions are in German, and one added two portraits there finally the boards were improved and one made of it the fourth pulling with Ulm, in 1754, under the title of Pinacotheca .

The most former character whose portrait is in this collection is Jacques Fugger, known as the Old man, dead the March 14th 1469.

Personalities

The important members of the family are:

  • Johannes known as Hans Fugger, installed towards 1367 with Augsburg (1348 - 1409)

  • Andreas Fugger, connects Fugger of the Stag ( " Fugger vom Reh" ) wire of Hans, (1406 - 1457)
  • Jacob Fugger known as Old the , connects Fugger of the Lily ( " Fugger von der Lilie" ), wire of Hans (1408 - 1469)
  • Ulrich Fugger, wire of Jacob the Old one, (1441 - 1510)
  • Jacob Fugger, known as the Rich person , wire of Jacob Old (the 1459 - 1525)
  • Ulrich Fugger known as the Young person (1490 - 1525)
  • Anton Fugger (1493 - 1560) nephew and successor of Jacob the Rich person, itself with the head of a gigantic commercial and financial empire.
  • Ulrich Fugger (1528 - 1584)
  • Johann Jacob Fugger
  • Anton and Raymond Fugger
  • Otho Heinrich Fugger

The family will give thereafter to the Holy roman Empire several imperial bankers as it will be at the origin of several branches of the nobility.

Family history of Fugger

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Anecdotes

It is to refund a loan contracted at Jacob Fugger the Rich person, to attract the good graces of the pope Leon X and to acquire the archbishop's palace of Mainz, that the prince-archbishop of Magdeburg, Albert de Hohenzollern had recourse to the sale of Indulgence S that Martin Luther denounced. It will be one of the origins of the schism between catholics and Protestants.

Bonds

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