Jakob Fugger the Elder
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Jakob Fugger was a German master weaver, town councillor and merchant, as well as the founder of the Fugger dynasty. He was later known as Jakob Fugger the Elder to distinguish him from his son Jakob
Jakob Fugger the Elder
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
Jakob Fugger the Elder
…Jakob Fugger (1398 in Augsburg – 1469 in Augsburg) was a German master weaver, town councillor and merchant, as well as the founder of the Fugger dynasty. He was later known as Jakob Fugger the Elder to distinguish him from his son Jakob Fugger, who took over his father's company and oversaw its…
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