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Os Fugger foram uma importante família germânica de banqueiros e mercadores, durante o período do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico, entre o final da Idade Média e o início da Idade Moderna, incluindo o Renascimento.
Hans Fugger von der Lilie, full name Hans, Freiherr Fugger, Herr zu Kirchheim, Glött, Mickhausen, Stettenfels und Schmiechen, (4 September 1531 – 19 April 1598; buried in Kirchheim in Schwaben) was a German arts patron, businessman and politician of the Fugger family.
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Founding
The founder of the family was Hans Fugger, a weaver at Graben, near the Swabian Free City of Augsburg. 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 tax 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...
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 Grand Burgher of Augsburg (German: Großbürger zu 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 (Stadtrat) of Augsburg. He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roma...
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 Peru and Chile and started mining ventures in Sweden and Norway. He was involved in the slave tra...
Kirchberg and Weißenhorn with Wullenstetten and Pfaffenhofen (Roth)(1507)Kluger, Martin (2014). The Fugger Dynasty in Augsburg – Merchants, Mining Entrepreneurs, Bankers and Benefactors. Augsburg: context verlag. ISBN 978-3-939645-74-0.Steinmetz, Greg (2015). The Richest Man Who Ever Lived. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-8855-9.Jakob Fugger, o Rico [1] (em alemão: Jakob Fugger von der Lilie) ou ainda Jakob II, (Augsburgo, 6 de março de 1459 - 30 de dezembro de 1525), foi o maior mercador, empresário e banqueiro da Europa. [2]
Dates and facts. History of the Fugger family since 1367. 1367. The master weaver Hans Fugger moves from the village of Graben to Augsburg. Note in the Augsburg tax register: »fucker advenit«, »Fugger has arrived«. 1370. Marriage to the daughter of the future guild master Oswald Widolf, Klara Widolf. The marriage produces two daughters.
Learn about the history of the Fugger family firm, which started with Hans Fugger's immigration to Augsburg in 1367 and became one of the leading mercantile operations in Europe. Discover how the Fuggers financed popes, emperors and kings, traded across continents and invested in land and mines.
Hans Fugger, member of a prominent family of merchant-bankers, called Sustris to Augsburg about 1568, where he decorated a series of rooms (1569–73), the so-called Fugger Bath Rooms (now a museum). By 1573 Sustris had entered the service of William V, duke of Bavaria, a….
