Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof (31 December 1663 – 1 February 1711

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

), was a mayor of Nuremberg. He was the son of Carl Welser (born 6 April 1635) and Magdalena Barbara Schlüssfelder (born c. 1645 Nuremberg). He was married to Clara Sabina Kress von Kressenstein (born c. 1665) on 12 August 1689 in Nuremberg, and had a son Christoph Carl Welser, born 1690 in Nuremberg. The

Welser family Welser was a German banking and merchant family, originally a patrician family based in Augsburg and Nuremberg, that rose to great prominence in international high finance in the 16th century as bankers to the Habsburgs and financiers of Ch ...

were affluent merchants in

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and

since 1246, and were active in copper, silver and tin mining, owning and operating a large mercantile fleet and starting the spice trade with India. The family had agreements with the Spanish court, giving them a monopoly in the slave trade to

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and the

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and the right to ship

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s, dyes, gold and drugs back to Europe. These rights were lost with the abdication of Charles V in 1556.

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1663 births 1711 deaths Mayors of Nuremberg

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