This article is about the merchant family of Augsburg. For other persons with the name, see Welser (surname).
Coat of arms of Welser family16th-century woodcut of the Welser coat of arms by Jost Amman
The Welser family 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 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Along with the Fugger family, the Welser family controlled large sectors of the European economy, and accumulated enormous wealth through trade and the German colonization of the Americas, including slave trade. The family received colonial rights of the Province of Venezuela from Charles V, who was also King of Spain, in 1528, becoming owners and rulers of the South American colony of Klein-Venedig (within modern Venezuela), but were deprived of their rule in 1546. Philippine Welser (1527–1580), famed for both her learning and her beauty, was married to Archduke Ferdinand, Emperor Ferdinand I's son.[1][2]
Claiming descent from the Byzantine general Belisarius, the family is known since the 13th century. By the early Age of Discovery, the Welser family had established trading posts in Antwerp, Lyon, Madrid, Nuremberg, Sevilla, Lisbon, Venice, Rome, and Santo Domingo. The Welsers financed not only the Emperor, but also other European monarchs. After the Reformation, both Welser and Fugger families remained in the Roman Catholic Church.[3]
^F. Roth: "Welser." In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Vol. 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 682–692.
^One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Welser" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
^Montenegro, Giovanna (2018). ""The Welser Phantom": Apparitions of the Welser Venezuela Colony in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Cultural Memory" (PDF). Transit. 11 (2): 36. doi:10.5070/T7112038255.
The Welserfamily was a German banking and merchant family, originally a patrician family based in Augsburg and Nuremberg, that rose to great prominence...
mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welserfamily, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century...
Medici family in the 15th century. The Fugger family of mercantile bankers and venture capitalists, the richest family in the 16th century. The Welser family...
Domingo by the Welserfamily of Augsburg, who had signed an agreement to explore the territory of Venezuela. As an agent of the Welserfamily, Federmann took...
sunspots. Welser belonged to a rich family of the old German nobility that had emerged in the city of Augsburg. His uncle Bartholomeus Welser was one of...
Portuguese used an international syndicate of the German Fugger family and Welserfamily, as well as Spanish and Italian firms, which operated out of Hamburg...
Philippine Welser (1527 – 24 April 1580) was the morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria. She was granted the titles Baroness of Zinnenburg...
Americas consisted of German Venezuela (German: Klein-Venedig, also German: Welser-Kolonie), St. Thomas and Crab Island in the 16th and 17th centuries. Klein-Venedig...
(1649–1706), a merchant of Hamburg and Lisbon, who was descended from the Welserfamily. They were the parents of Rudolf Berenberg (1712–61), a merchant in...
was contracted as a concession by the King of Spain to the German Welser banking family, as Klein-Venedig. It has its origins with the 1527 foundation of...
Klein-Venedig (1528 - 1546), the concession of Venezuela Province to the Welser banking family by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. Hutten was born...
banned. However, forced labor under the Encomienda continues. 1536 The Welserfamily is dispossessed of the Asiento monopoly (granted in 1528) following...
there had been assigned to the Welserfamily by the Emperor Charles V. When Philipp von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI. Welser were on a expedition to find...
factor in Madrid for the Welser banking family when they began planning for the colonization of Klein-Venedig. The Welsers appointed him as the first...
World. King Charles I was documented to receive loans from the German Welserfamily to help finance the Venezuela expedition for gold. With numerous armed...
Banking families are families which have been involved in banking for multiple generations, in the modern era generally as owners or co-owners of banks...
and Hamburg merchant Paul Amsinck (1649–1706) and a descendant of the Welserfamily. Their sons, Senator Paul Berenberg (1716–1768) and Johann Berenberg...
downfall was the illegitimate child she had with Anton Welser (a member of the wealthy Welserfamily and father-in-law to the famous scholar Konrad Peutinger)...
which was an essential export good for the trade with India. Unlike the Welserfamily, Jakob Fugger's participation in the overseas trade was very cautious...
The following image is a family tree of every prince, king, queen, monarch, confederation president and emperor of Germany, from Charlemagne in 800 over...
Imperial City from 1276 to 1803 and the home of the patrician Fugger and Welserfamilies that dominated European banking in the 16th century. According to Behringer...
rediscovered in 1597 by Marcus Welser (a member of the Welserfamily and relative of Peutinger). According to Welser, who wrote a commentary on the map...
German Welserfamily. Klein-Venedig became the most extensive initiative in the German colonization of the Americas from 1528 to 1546. The Welsers were...
Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof (31 December 1663 – 1 February 1711 Nuremberg) was a mayor of Nuremberg. He was the son of Carl Welser (born 6 April 1635)...
Genoese established in Seville. 1528–1536: The Welser and Fugger families from Augsburg. The Welserfamily is granted with the Asiento in New Andalusia...
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