The House of Fugger () is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European

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ers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of

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, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near

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on the European

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market. This banking family replaced the Medici family who influenced all of Europe during the

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. The Fuggers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and influence. They were closely affiliated with the

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whose rise to world power they financed. Unlike the citizenry of their hometown and most other trading patricians of German free imperial cities, such as the Tuchers, they never converted to

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, as presented in the

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, but rather remained with the

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and thus close to the Habsburg emperors. Jakob Fugger ''"the Rich"'' was elevated to the nobility of the

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in May 1511 and assumed the title Imperial Count of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn in 1514. Today, he is considered to be one of the wealthiest people ever to have lived, with a GDP-adjusted net worth of over $400 billion, and approximately 2% of the entire GDP of Europe at the time. While the company was dissolved in 1657, the Fuggers remained wealthy landowners and ruled the County of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn. The Babenhausen branch became

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in 1803, while the Glött branch of the family became

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s in

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in 1914.

History

Founding

The founder of the family was Hans Fugger, a weaver at

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, near the

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n Free City of

. The last name was originally spelled "Fucker" – the first recorded reference to the family comes when Johann's son, also named Johann (or Hans), moved to Augsburg in 1367, with the local

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register laconically noting ''Fucker advenit'', "Fugger has arrived". He married Klara Widolf and became an Augsburg citizen. After Klara's death, he married Elizabeth Gattermann. He joined the weaver's guild, and by 1396, he was ranked high in the list of taxpayers. He added the business of a merchant to that of a weaver. His eldest son, Andreas Fugger, was a merchant in the weaving trade, and was nicknamed "Fugger the Rich" after buying land and other properties. The Fugger family itemized and inventoried a large number of Asian rugs, an unusual undertaking at the time. Andreas's son, Lukas Fugger, was granted arms by the Emperor Frederick III, a golden deer on a blue background, and he was soon nicknamed "the Fugger of the Deer". He would eventually go bankrupt. His descendants served their cousins of the famous younger branch and later went to Silesia. Contemporary members of the Fugger of the Deer (''German:'' Fugger vom Reh) are descendants of Matthäus Fugger (1442–1489/92). Hans Fugger's younger son, Jakob the Elder, founded another branch of the family. This branch progressed more steadily and they became known as the "Fuggers of the Lily" after their chosen arms of a flowering

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on a gold and blue background. Jakob was a master weaver, a merchant, and an

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. He married Barbara Bäsinger, the daughter of a goldsmith. His fortune progressed, and by 1461, he was the twelfth richest man in Augsburg. He died in 1469. Jakob's eldest son, Ulrich, took over the business on his father's death, and in 1473 he provided new suits of clothes to Frederick, his son Maximilian I, and his suite on their journey to

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to meet Charles the Bold of

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and the

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of the young prince to Charles's daughter Maria. Thus began a very profitable relationship between the Fugger family and the

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s. With the help of their brother in Rome, Marx, Ulrich and his brother George handled remittances to the papal court of monies for the sale of indulgences and the procuring of Church benefices. From 1508 to 1515, they leased the Roman mint. Ulrich died in 1510. When the Fuggers made their first loan to the Archduke Sigismund in 1487, they took as security an interest in silver and copper mines in the

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. This was the beginning of an extensive family involvement in mining and precious metals. The Fuggers also participated in mining operations in

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, and owned copper mines in

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. Their trade in spices, wool, and silk extended to almost all parts of Europe.

Jakob Fugger "the Rich"

Ulrich's youngest brother Jakob Fugger, born in 1459, was to become the most famous member of the dynasty. In 1498, he married Sibylla Artzt, Grand Burgheress to Augsburg, the daughter of an eminent

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of Augsburg (). They had no children, but this marriage gave Jakob the opportunity to elevate to Grand Burgher of Augsburg and later allowed him to pursue a seat on the city council () of Augsburg. He was elevated to the nobility of the

in May 1511, made Imperial Count in 1514, and in 1519, led a consortium of German and Italian businessmen that loaned Charles V 850,000 florins (about 95,625 oz(t) or 2974 kg of gold) to procure his election as

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over

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. The Fuggers' contribution was 543,000 florins. In 1494, the Fuggers established their first public company. Jakob's aim was to establish a copper

by opening foundries in Hohenkirchen and Fuggerau (named for the family, in

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) and by expanding the sales organization in Europe, especially the

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agency. Jakob leased the copper mines in Besztercebánya in the

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(today

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) in 1495, eventually making them the greatest mining centre of the time. At the height of his power Jakob Fugger was sharply criticized by his contemporaries, especially by Ulrich von Hutten and

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, for selling indulgences and benefices and urging the Pope to rescind or amend the prohibition on the levying of interest. The imperial fiscal and governmental authorities in

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brought action against him and other merchants in an attempt to halt their monopolistic practices. In 1511, Jakob deposited 15,000 florins as an endowment for some

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s. In 1514, he bought up part of Augsburg and in 1516 came to an agreement with the city that he would build and provide a number of almshouses for needy citizens. By 1523, 52 houses had been built, and the Fuggerei had come into existence. It is still used today. Jakob died in 1525. He is considered to be one of the richest persons of all time, and today he is well known as Jakob Fugger "the rich". At its peak his wealth is estimated to be 2% of Europe's GDP.

Later years

Jakob's successor was his nephew Anton Fugger, son of his elder brother Georg. Anton was born in 1493, married Anna Rehlinger, and died in 1560. In 1525, the Fuggers were granted the revenues from the Spanish orders of knighthood together with the profits from mercury and silver mines. The formerly rich yield of the Tirolean and Hungarian mines decreased, but Anton established new trade ties with

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and

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and started mining ventures in

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and

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. He was involved in the slave trade from Africa to America, but was more successful in the spice trade and the importation of Hungarian cattle. Eventually, he was forced to renounce the Maestrazgo lease after 1542 and to give up the silver mines of

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. In 1530 and 1531 the Fuggers held exclusive rights to trade through the

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. While European trade with Asia through this route was thought to be possible, the Fuggers never developed this route. Decades later the

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would inaugurate trade with Asia across the Pacific with no Fugger involvement. After hard times under Anton's nephew and successor Johann Jakob, Anton's oldest son, Markus, carried on the business successfully, earning some 50,000,000

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s between 1563 and 1641 from the production of mercury at Almadén alone, but the Fugger company was completely dissolved after the

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when Leopold Fugger returned the mines in Tyrol to the Habsburgs in 1657. The burial chapel of the Fuggers in St. Anne's Church, Augsburg of 1509 is the earliest example of

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in Germany with its memorial relief tablets in the style of Dürer in the choir of the church. It became the burial place of the three brothers Jacob Fugger, Georg Fugger and Ulrich Fugger the Elder and their two nephews Raymund Fugger and Hieronymus Fugger (1499–1538). When St. Anne's Church became Protestant in 1548, the Fugger Chapel remained Catholic because the Fugger Foundation continued to look after it and contributed to the upkeep of the church. Hence. part of the church is denominationally different from the rest, and that the burial place of the Fugger family, who are considered strictly Catholic, is now in a Protestant church. Adding to the oddity is that Jacob Fugger's loans to Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg and the

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to repay them were what triggered Martin Luther's Reformation. Anselm Maria Fugger von Babenhausen (1766–1821) was created

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in 1803. The present head of this branch is Prince Hubertus who owns Jakob the Rich's former business seat, the Fuggerhäuser in Augsburg, as well as nearby Wellenburg Castle and the castle at

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(purchased by Anton Fugger in 1539 and today housing a museum on the family history); he is also co-owner of a small private bank, the Fürst Fugger Privatbank, in Augsburg. The branch , descendants of Johann Ernst, a great-grandson of Anton, was elevated to the rank of a Bavarian prince in 1913 with

Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött Graf Carl Ernst Maria Fidel Alfred Anton Fugger von Glött, since 1914: Fürst Fugger von Glött (2 July 1859, Oberndorf am Lech – 25 April 1940, Kirchheim in Schwaben) was a member of the noble family of the Fugger. He was a jurist, pres ...

; the branch ended in the male line with his son Joseph-Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött (1895–1981), husband of Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern (1895–1975), his estate including the castle at

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(acquired in 1551 by Anton Fugger) being inherited by his sister Maria's (1894–1935) son, Albert Count von Arco-Zinneberg (b. 1932), whom he adopted, and who took on the name Fugger von Glött. The comital branch is today represented by countess Maria-Elisabeth von Thun und Hohenstein, née countess Fugger, heiress of Kirchberg Castle at Illerkirchberg (bought in 1507 by Jakob Fugger). She also heads the charitable family foundations including the Fuggerei in Augsburg and Welden monastery. In Augsburg, a museum of Fugger and Welser history (Fugger und Welser Erlebnismuseum) was opened.

Findings

In April 2019, Dutch maritime investigators unearthed a 16th-century

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during an exploration for container ship MSC Zoe which lost containers overboard in January 2019. Copper plates with emblem of the Fugger family were found in the ship built around 1540 in the

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during the reign of Charles V.

Family members

* Hans (I.) Fugger (born 1367 in Augsburg, died 1408) ** Fugger Ehrenbuch 006

Andreas Fugger (1394–1457), founder of the branch "Fugger of the Deer" *** Jakob Fugger (b. 1430) *** Lukas Fugger (b. 1439–ca. 1512) *** Matthäus Fugger (b. 1442) **** Sebastian Fugger (b. 1470/72) ***** Andreas Wilhelm Hieronimus Fugger (1507–1573) ****** Georg Wilhelm Sebastian Raymund Fugger (1547–ca. 1600) **** Ulrich Fugger (1524–1586) *** Hans Fugger (b. 1443) **** Gastel Fugger (1475–1539), ennobled in 1529 ***** Wolfgang Fugger (1519/20–1568) ****** Johann Christoph Fugger (1561–1612) ** Fugger Ehrenbuch 011

Jakob Fugger the Elder (1398–1469), founder of the branch "Fugger of the Lily" *** Ulrich Fugger the Elder (1441–1510), head of the Augsburg company **** Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525) *** Georg Fugger (1453–1506), head of the Nuremberg company **** Raymund Fugger (1489–1535), cr. Imperial Count of Kirchberg, Weissenhorn and Marstetten in 1535 ***** Johann Jakob Fugger (Hans II. Jakob) (1516–1575) ****** Sigmund Friedrich Fugger (1542–1600), bishop ***** Georg Fugger (1518–1569) ****** Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546–1618) ****** Octavian Secundus Fugger (1549–1600) ***** Ulrich (III.) Fugger (1526–1584) **** Anton Fugger (1493–1560), cr. Imperial Count in 1530 ***** Markus (III.) Fugger (1529–1597), founder of the company ''Marx Fugger and brothers'' ***** Hans (III.) Fugger of Kirchheim and Glött (1531–1598) ****** Markus (IV.) Fugger (1564–1614) ****** Jakob (IV.) Fugger (1567–1626) ****** Christoph Fugger (1566–1615) ******* Carl Ernst Fugger (1559–1640) ******* Otto Heinrich Fugger, Count of Kirchberg ("Ottheinrich") (1592–1644), general ***** Jakob (III.) Fugger (1542–1598), Lord of Babenhausen, Wellenburg and Boos ****** Johann Fugger the Elder (1583–1633) ******* ... Anselm Maria Fugger von Babenhausen (1766–1821), cr.

in 1803 *** Jakob Fugger "the Rich" (1459–1525), head of international activities, cr. Baron in 1511, cr. Imperial Count in 1514

(Mediatized) Princes of Fugger-Babenhausen (1803)

* Anselm, 1st Prince 1803–1821 (1766–1821), m. Countess Maria Antonia of Waldburg zu Zeil-Wurzach ** Anton, 2nd Prince 1821–1836 (1800–1836), m. Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein und Jagstberg *** Leopold, 3rd Prince 1836–1885 (1827–1885), m. Countess Anna von Gatterburg *** Karl, 4th Prince 1885–1906 (1829–1906), m. Countess Friederike von Christalnigg von und zu Gillitzstein **** Karl, 5th Prince 1906–1925 (1861–1925), m. Princess Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein ***** Georg, 6th Prince 1925–1934 (1889–1934), m. Countess Elisabeth von Plessen ****** Friedrich Carl, 7th Prince 1934–1979 (1914–1979), m. Countess Gunilla Bielke

Gallery

File:Urh1441 fuggerorum.jpg, Ulrich Fugger the Elder (1441–1510) File:Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum imagines - 005r.jpg, Georg Fugger (1453–1506) File:Raymund fuggerorum portrait.jpg, Raymund Fugger (1489–1535) File:Anton fugger by hans maler.jpg, Anton Fugger (1493–1560) File:HansFugger1531.jpg, Hans (III.) Fugger (1531–1598) File:ChristophFugger.jpg, Christoph Fugger, by

Christoph Amberger Christoph Amberger (c. 1505 – 1562) was a painter of Augsburg in the sixteenth century, a disciple of Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans Holbein, his principal work being the history of Joseph in twelve pictures. Life His father was a stonema ...

, 1541

Acquisitions

* Kirchberg and Weißenhorn with Wullenstetten and Pfaffenhofen (Roth) (1507) * Schmiechen (1508) * Biberbach (1514) * Gablingen (1527) * Mickhausen (1528) * Burgwalden (1529; , in ''Landkreis''

) * Oberndorf an der Donau (1533) * Lands in

(1535) * Pflege Donauwörth (1536) * Glött (1537) * Babenhausen und Brandenburg (1539) * Pleß (1546) * Rettenbach (1547) * Lands in

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(1551) * Kirchheim (1551) * Duttenstein Castle, near Dischingen (1551; Schloss Duttenstein, in ''Landkreis'' Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg) * Eppishausen (1551) * Niederalfingen (1551) * Stettenfels Castle (1551; Burg Stettenfels, in ''Landkreis''

Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. From the late Middle Ages on, it developed into an important trading centre. At the begi ...

, Baden-Württemberg) * Reichau, near Boos (1551) * Kettershausen und Bebenhausen (1558) The following historic buildings are still owned by the Fugger family: File:Augsburg Fuggerhaeuser Stadtpalast.jpg, Fuggerhäuser in

File:Fugger Fuggerei-Markuskirche+Herrengasse.jpg, Fuggerei in Augsburg File:Fuggerschloß.jpg, The castle at Babenhausen, Bavaria File:MHV Fugger Castle Wellenburg.jpg, Wellenburg Castle in Augsburg File:Fuggerschloss Kirchheim11.jpg, The castle at

File:Schloss Oberkirchberg Illerkirchberg 101.jpg, Kirchberg Castle at Illerkirchberg

Family tree

References

External links

Fugger family website
(multilingual)
Fugger family on History.com

The Fugger Newsletters
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