Fugger family
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The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mer
Portrait of Georg Fugger by Giovanni Bellini, 1474
Jakob Fugger, "the Rich" (1459–1525), by Albrecht Dürer
10 ducats (1621) minted as circulating currency by the Fugger family
The Fugger family's burial chapel of 1509 at St. Anne's Church, Augsburg
Jakob Fugger
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Jakob Fugger of the Lily, also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in th
Fugger family
…to Lutheranism, as presented in the Augsburg Confession, but rather remained with the Roman Catholic Church and thus close to the Habsburg emperors. Jakob Fugger "the Rich" was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in May 1511 and assumed the title Imperial Count of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn in 1514. Today, he…
Jakob Fugger, in Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Dresden
Coat of arms of the Fugger of the lily family, granted in 1473
Rich silver ore (argentite) from Banská Štiavnica mines