Map of Württemberg before the French Revolutionary Wars, showing the County of Fugger, with the Danube shown running through the centre of the image and the Iller forming the border between Württemberger lands (coloured) and Bavarian lands (non-coloured)
Status
County
Capital
Weißenhorn (nominally) Imp. City Augsburg (de facto)
Government
Principality
Historical era
Early modern Europe
• Pledged non-immediate County of Kirchberg and Lordship of Weißenhorn
1507 1536
• Raised to Imperial nobility
1511
• Gained immediate Lordship of Glött
1536
• Fugger lands' immediacy
1541
• Joined Swabian Circle
1563
• Mediatised to Bavaria and Württemberg
1806
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Bavaria
Duchy of Württemberg
Augsburg
Kingdom of Bavaria
Kingdom of Württemberg
The House of Fugger (German pronunciation:[ˈfʊɡɐ]) 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 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 on the European copper market.
This banking family replaced the Medici family who influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and influence. They were closely affiliated with the House of Habsburg 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 Lutheranism, as presented in the Augsburg Confession, but rather remained with the Roman Catholic Church and thus close to the Habsburg emperors.[1]
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 is considered to be one of the wealthiest people ever to have lived, with a 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 Princes in Bavaria in 1914.
^S. Lott, Elizabeth (2019). The Holy Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 293. ISBN 9781440848568. ... because even though Augsburg welcomed Protestants during and after the Reformation, the Fugger family remained Catholic.
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him the elder brother of Jakob Fugger the Elder. He was the founder of the Fugger vom Reh branch of the Fuggerfamily. His wife was Barbara Stammler vom...
der Lilie) branch of the Fuggerfamily. Fugger was born on 24 October 1489 in Augsburg. He was the second son of Georg Fugger. After his father's death...
Austrian noblewoman, socialite and chronicler of the House of Fugger. She is also known as Nora Fugger in her autobiography. Eleonore Aloysia Maria was born Princess...
Jakob Fugger the Elder. She had eleven children with him before he died, including Ulrich, Georg and Jakob Fugger. She successfully managed the family business...
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Hans Fugger von der Lilie, full name Hans, Freiherr Fugger, Herr zu Kirchheim, Glött, Mickhausen, Stettenfels und Schmiechen, (4 September 1531 – 19 April...
Markus Fugger (Marx Fugger) von der Lilie (14 February 1529 – 18 June 1597) was a German politician and businessman of the Fuggerfamily. He was the eldest...
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Babenhausen is a castle in Babenhausen, Bavaria. It is the home of the Fugger-Babenhausen family, which was promoted to the status of Imperial Princes in 1803...
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