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
Welser family
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The Welser family was a noble German family of bankers and merchants active between the 14th and 19th centuries. Originally patricians based in Augsburg and Nuremberg, its members rose to great promin
Fugger family
…of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, 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 monopoly…
Philippine Welser, wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, portrait at Ambras Castle
Bartholomeus Welser V, engraving by Georg Christoph Eimmart