The House of Fugger () is a German upper bourgeois 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 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 Char ...

, 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 Augsburg Confession, 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 an 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 Princes of the Holy Roman Empire 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 Graben, near the

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. The last name was originally spelled "Fucker" – the first recorded reference to the family comes when Johann's son, also named Johann (or Hans), moves 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, 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 Lukas I. Fugger vom Reh (1439 - after 1512) was a German businessman and member of the Fugger family. He was the second eldest son of Andreas Fugger. Lukas had three brothers, Jakob (about 1430-1505), Matthäus (1442-1489/92), Hans (1443-1501) ...

, 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 was too ambitious, however, and went 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). The current head of the family is Markus Fugger von dem Rech (born 1970). Giovanni_Bellini_-_Portrait_of_Joerg_Fugger_(1474)

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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 Basinger, 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 Trier to meet Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the betrothal of the young prince to Charles's daughter Maria. Thus began a very profitable relationship between the Fugger family and the Habsburgs. 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

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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 Tirol. 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 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 () 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 Holy Roman Emperor 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

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(named for the family, in Carinthia) and by expanding the sales organization in Europe, especially the Antwerp agency. Jakob leased the copper mines in Besztercebánya in the

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(today Banská Bystrica,

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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 Martin Luther, for selling

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 almshouses. 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 Anton Fugger (10 June 1493 – 14 September 1560) was a German merchant and member of the Fugger family. He was a nephew of Jakob Fugger. Biography Anton was the third and youngest son of George Fugger and Regina Imhof. He was born in Augsburg o ...

, 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

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lease after 1542 and to give up the silver mines of Guadalcanal. 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 ducats 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. Goldschmiedekapelle (St

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. Anselm Maria Fugger von Babenhausen (1766–1821) was created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803. The present head of this branch is Prince Hubertus ''Fugger von Babenhausen'' who owns Jakob the Rich's former business seat, the

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in Augsburg, as well as nearby Wellenburg Castle and the castle at Babenhausen, Bavaria (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

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, in Augsburg. The branch ''Fugger von Glött'', descendants of Johann Ernst, a great-grandson of Anton, was elevated to the rank of a Bavarian prince in 1914 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, presi ...

; 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 Kirchheim in Schwaben (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 ''Fugger von Kirchberg und zu Weissenhorn'' is today represented by countess Maria-Elisabeth von

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, 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 shipwreck 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 (in Augsburg from 1367, died 1408) ** Fugger Ehrenbuch 006

Andreas Fugger (1394–1457), founder of the branch "Fugger of the Deer" *** Jakob Fugger (b. 1430) ***

(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 Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490 - 1525; ''von der Lilie'') was a German merchant and businessman from the Fugger family. Active in Augsburg, he was the second-eldest son of Ulrich Fugger the Elder and Veronika Lauginger. In 1516 he married Veronik ...

(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) ****

(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 Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...

("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. Prince of the Holy Roman Empire 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

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******* Prince Carl-Anton Maria, renounced his rights 1970 (b. 1944) ******* Hubertus, 8th Prince 1979–present (b. 1946), m. Princess Alexandra of Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg ******** Hereditary Prince Leopold (b. 1980); m. Annina Kammer ********* Prince Antonius (b. 2013) ********* Prince Ferdinand (b. 2016) ******** Prince Alexander (b. 1981) ******** Prince Nikolaus (b. 1993) ******* Prince Markus (b. 1950) ******* Count Johannes (b. 1957), m. 1983 Princess Miriam of Lobkowicz (b. 1961) ******** Count Constantin (b. 1986),Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XIV. "Fugger". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1991, pp. 269–270, 303. (German). . m. 2017 Princess Sophie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (b. 1988) ******** Prince Philipp (b. 1988)

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,

(1493–1560) File:HansFugger1531.jpg, Hans (III.) Fugger (1531–1598) File:ChristophFugger.jpg, Christoph Fugger, by Christoph Amberger, 1541

Acquisitions

* Kirchberg and Weißenhorn with Wullenstetten and Pfaffenhofen (Roth) (1507) *

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(1508) * Biberbach (1514) *

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(1527) * Mickhausen (1528) * Burgwalden (1529; , in ''Landkreis''

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

(1535) * Pflege Donauwörth (1536) * Glött (1537) * Babenhausen und Brandenburg (1539) *

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(1546) * Rettenbach (1547) * Lands in

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

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(1551) * Niederalfingen (1551) * Stettenfels Castle (1551; Burg Stettenfels, in ''Landkreis'' Heilbronn, 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,

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 Kirchheim in Schwaben 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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