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	Fugger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jakob was a master weaver, a merchant and an alderman, and married Barbara Basinger, the daughter of a goldsmith.
		Jakob's eldest son, Ulrich, took over the business on his father's death, and in 1473 he provided new suits of clothes to Frederick, his son Maximilian I, and his suite on their journey to Trier to meet Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the betrothal of the young prince to Charles's daughter Maria.
		Anton was born in 1493, married Anna Rehlinger, and died in 1560.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fugger (478 words)

	FUGGER - LoveToKnow Article on FUGGER
		The founder of the family was Johann Fugger, a weaver at Graben, near Augsburg, whose son, Johann, settled in Augsburg probably in 1367.
		Jakob Fuggers forms had contributed largely to the election of Charles V. to the imperial throne in 1519, and his nephews and heirs maintained close and friendly relations with the great emperor.
		Augsburg has many interesting mementoes of the Fuggers, including the family burial-chapel in the church oi St Anna; the Fugger chapel in the church of St Ulrich and St Afra; the Fuggerhaus, still in the possession of one branch of the family; and a statue of Johann Jakob Fugger.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FU/FUGGER.htm (1268 words)

	Fugger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Fugger family or Fuggers was a historically prominent group of European bankers.
		The first reference to the Fugger family in the Bavarian Free City of Augsburg is the arrival of Hans Fugger recorded in the tax register of 1357.
		Andreas' son, Lucas Fugger, was granted arms by the Emperor Frederick III, a goden deer on a blue background, and he was soon nicknamed 'the Fugger of the Deer'.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Fugger (404 words)

	Fugger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jakob Fugger II, or “the rich” as he is so often called, was born in 1459, in Augsburg Germany.
		Under Jakob Fugger II, who, during his time period became the richest man on the planet, the family firm’s net value was equivalent to that of the one hundred largest German corporations today.
		Jakob II died in 1925 as one of the richest men on the planet.
	iweb.tntech.edu /pcampana/fugger.htm (407 words)

	The Fugger family or Fuggers were a historically prominent group of...
		Andreas' son, Lucas Fugger, was granted arms by the Emperor Frederick III Frederick III, a golden deer on a blue background, and he was soon nicknamed 'the Fugger of the Deer'.
		Hans Fugger's younger son, Jakob the Elder, founded another branch of the family, This branch progressed more steadily and they became known as the 'Fuggers of the Lily' after their chosen arms of a flowering lily lily on a gold and blue background.
		Jakob was a master weaver, a merchant and an alderman alderman, and married Barbara Basinger, the daughter of a goldsmith.
	www.biodatabase.de /Fugger (459 words)

	Fugger Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of their lasting heritage is the Fuggerei, the intact, earliest council housing estate in Europe donated by Jakob the Rich in 1514.
		His son Jakob II (died 1525) was to become the richest man on the planet - a merchant who crowned kings and princes.
		Jakob II started amassing his fortune when he became the administrator of the silver mines of Tyrolea.
	www.romantic-road.info /html/fugger_dynasty.html (353 words)

	Fugger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Fugger family or Fuggers was a historically prominent group of Europe an bank ers.
		The first reference to the Fugger family in the Bavaria n Free City of Augsburg is the arrival of Hans Fugger recorded in the tax register of 1357...
		Andreas' son, Lucas Fugger, was granted arms by the Emperor Frederick III, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick III, a golden deer on a blue background, and he was soon nicknamed 'the Fugger of the Deer'.
	www.33beat.com /Fugger.html (447 words)

	The founding fathers. (from Fugger Family) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hans Fugger, a weaver born in the village of Graben in Swabia, established the family in Augsburg in 1367.
		In 1494 the Fuggers established their first public company with a capital of 54,385 guilders, a sum that was to be doubled two years later when Jakob persuaded the Prince Bishop of Brixen to join the company as a silent partner.
		Jakob's aim was to establish a copper monopoly by opening foundries in Hohenkirchen and Fuggerau (named for the family, in Carinthia, now Austria) and by expanding the sales organization in Europe, especially the Antwerp agency.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-2513 (1631 words)

	A CHRONOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
		Action is brought against Jakob Fugger and other merchants by the imperial fiscal and governmental authorities in Nürnberg (Nuremberg) to halt their monopolistic tendencies.
		Fugger's position was furthermore threatened by social unrest among the miners in the Tirol and at Neusohl in Hungary, by attempts of the Hungarian nobles to nationalize his mines, and by the Peasants' Revolt.
		Note: While Jakob and Anton Fugger had hardly made use of their title as counts, their descendants, showed little mercantile inclination, acquired humanistic educations at European universities, married within their class, and spent most of their lives on their great estates, where they established valuable libraries and built magnificent residences.
	www.dakotacom.net /~rmwillia/timeline2.html (2196 words)

	Augsburg im Überblick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jakob Fugger built a local mining business into a copper monopoly and subsequently into one of the leading banking houses in the world, the financiers of the Habsburgs.
		He was elevated to the nobility in 1511 and in 1514 became Count of Kirchberg.
		He is buried in the Fugger Chapel in the Church of St. Anna.
	www.augsburg.de /Seiten/augsburg_e/a_i_ueberblick_e/sehenswertes_e/beruehmtes_e/jfugger_e.shtml (56 words)

	Jakob Fugger Biography / Biography of Jakob Fugger Biography
		Jakob Fugger (1459-1525) was one of Renaissance Europe's wealthiest citizens.
		At the time of Fugger's birth on March 6, 1459, his family was already one of the most prominent in Augsburg, Bavaria's leading city before its eclipse by Munich.
		Fugger's grandfather Hans had relocated from Swabia around 1367; he married well and rose to prominence in the city's weavers' guild.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jakob-fugger (223 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Fuggerei, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
		Jakob Fugger was not the first Fugger to be obscenely rich, but he was probably the most influential of them all
		Secondly, Jakob was a full-fleshed Renaissance man. He wanted to provide an exemplary Renaissance project, with Renaissance ideals: so every family in the Fuggerei got one private house (instead of the usual one-room-for-50-people shelters of the Church).
		Jakob Fugger demanded that the year's rent should never change: the equivalent to one Rheinischer Gulden - which already in the 1520s was more like a symbolic fee.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A944264 (1113 words)

	FUGGER - Online Information article about FUGGER
		Jakob, who greatly extended the business which they inherited from their See also:
		Anton Fugger's third son Jakob, the founder of the family of Wellenburg, had two sons who left issue, but in 1797 the possessions of this branch of the family were again See also:
		Anna; the Fugger chapel in the church of St Ulrich and St Afra; the Fuggerhaus, still in the possession of one branch of the family; and a statue of Johann Jakob Fugger.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE/FUGGER.html (1744 words)

	Family Business Pantheon
		Jakob's sons—most notably Jakob II (1459-1525)—evolved from trade in textile goods to cotton and spice, then into transactions for the Roman curia and ultimately into the mining and processing of silver and copper.
		Jakob Fugger II survived repeated crises, even the confiscation by the Hungarian King Louis II of property Jakob held in Hungarian territory.
		Jakob was a hard and resolute businessman, but also deeply religious and concerned with social problems.
	www.familybusinessmagazine.com /pantheon.html (2975 words)

	St. Anna Augsburg Kunstführer englisch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Luther met Cajetan in the Fugger´s house and all that was needed was for Luther to recant.
		The Fugger Chapel (1509-1518) was founded by Jakob Fugger and his brothers Ulrich and Georg as a burial chapel for the male members of their families.
		To the left of the Fugger Chapel is the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, an imitation of that in Jerusalem.
	www.st-anna-augsburg.de /englisch/fuehrerengl.htm (813 words)

	Jakob Fugger, the Wealthy by DÜRER, Albrecht
		Because of successive restorations, the top layer of colour is missing.
		During the Diet of Augsburg, in 1518, Dürer portrayed Jakob Fugger in a charcoal drawing.
		Jakob Fugger of Augsburg (1459-1525), the wealthiest merchant of his day, learned the art of commerce in Venice.
	www.wga.hu /html/d/durer/1/09/4fugger.html (391 words)

	Fugger Family Crest
		First found in Austria, where the name Fueger became noted for its many branches in the region, each house acquiring a status and influence which was envied by the princes of the region.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Fugger coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/fugger-family-crest.htm (467 words)

	Mystery Town III<br>The Fuggerei, Augsburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Fuggers were bankers, rich enough to later become Fürsten (princes).
		Founded in 1516 by Jakob Fugger the Rich and his brothers as the world's first social settlement for hardworking, honest but impoverished citizens who were Catholic.
		It was founded in 1516 by Jakob Fugger the Younger as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed.
	massengale.typepad.com /photos/mystery_town_iii (227 words)

	iKorcula.NET - Frano Cebalo: Jakov Baničević (Jakob Bannissius Dalmata) on the Painting Our Lady of the Rosary by ...
		As the Fugger family dominated the Fondaco dei Tedeschi when the painting Our Lady of the Rosary was made, it is generally accepted that they were the main donators of the painting.
		I took into consideration the already mentioned portrait of Jakob Fugger by A. Dürer (Figure 5) and that of Cristoph Fugger by C. Amberger in order to compare the common traits of the Fuggers' faces with great probability.
		A typical rounded nose, a funnel-shaped gap between the eyes, eyebrows which rise on expressed arches, eyes (the left eye identical), the contour of the right side of the face on the background of the painting (emphasised orbital arch).
	www.ikorcula.net /korcula_info/history/Frano_Cebalo_Jakov_Banicevic.htm (1831 words)

	Fuggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The foundation of their wealth was laid by Hans Fugger, allegedly a weaver, who moved to Augsburg in 1367.
		Then the richest family in Europe, the Fuggers were generous patrons of the arts and learning and philanthropists, notably at Augsburg, their residence.
		Under Raymund Fugger, 1489-1535, and Anton Fugger, 1493-1560, the house reached the limits of its power and fortune.
	www.cba.hawaii.edu /remus/genes/Bavaria/fugger.htm (227 words)

	Decline of the house. (from Fugger Family) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ...
		At his death in 1525, Jakob the Rich bequeathed to his nephew Anton Fugger, who had been destined for the succession since 1517, company assets totaling 2,032,652 guilders.
		It is to Jakob and Anton Fugger's land purchases that the three surviving lines of the family (all dating from the mid-16th century)—the counts Fugger-Kirchberg of Oberkirchberg, the prince Fugger-Glött of Kirchheim, and the prince Fugger-Babenhausen of Babenhausen—owe the preservation of a part of the great wealth once held by the family firm.
		The Fugger family may be considered a prototype of the trading company of the early capitalistic era.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-2514 (1376 words)

	LWF - News - Augsburg, Luther and the Fuggers
		It was in Fugger’s house in Augsburg that the papal legate Cajetan met with Luther in 1518 to try to silence this annoying critic.
		And it was the theologian Johannes Eck, who was supported by the Fuggers and gained his fame with theses in justification of the five per cent interest rate, who was put up against Luther.
		Jakob Fugger died in 1525 and was buried in St. Anne’s.
	www.lutheranworld.org /News/LWI/EN/694.EN.html (593 words)

	Articles - Augsburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It produced large quantities of woven goods, cloth and textiles, and was the base for the Fugger banking empire.
		The Fuggerei, part of the city devoted to housing for the needy citizens of Augsburg, was founded in 1516 and is still in use today.
		Jakob Fugger Noted banker and financial broker (1459-1525).
	www.sinoz.com /articles/Augsburg (442 words)

	Die Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggerschen Stiftungen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jakob Fugger the Rich (1459-1525), who had acquired a considerable estate in the St. Jakob quarter in 1514, had a total of 53 houses built in the years 1519 to 1523 by the master builder Thomas Krebs, each containing two self-contained flats (around 60 sq.
		The Fuggerei obtained a church of its own, St. Markus, in 1580 after the parish of St. Jakob in the quarter of St. Jakob had become Protestant.
		In the 18th century the verger, who held school classes for the children in the Fuggerei, lived next door to this.
	www.fugger.de /fuggerei_engl/gesch.htm (217 words)

	..:: A Studentsproject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was founded by Jakob Fugger, a rich merchant and trader from Augsburg.
		The department of Social Security decides who is needy enough to get a flat and the Senior Council of the Fugger family decides who is finally accepted as a resident.
		Maybe you will (or have) read that only Catholics were allowed to live here because J. Fugger was a confirmed enemy of the Reformation, but this is surely nonsense.
	www.liquidflash.de /projekte/studentsproject/fuggerei.htm (406 words)

	AES 106th Convention - Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The story of the Fuggers is the tale of a symbiosis between royal politics and money.
		Thanks to their fabulous wealth, the Fuggers were able to influence events of their day as if Europe were a chess board and they held all the best pieces — emperors, kings, popes, etc.
		It was founded by Jakob Fugger in 1521.
	www.aes.org /events/106/socialtours.cfm (558 words)

	HWC, Trails, Fuggerei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was built by the Fugger family, a very wealthy merchant family of Augsburg, Germany.
		Or just learn more about the city of Augsburg, which was a very important city in the 16th century and played a prominent role in the Reformation.
		It was built by Jakob Fugger specifically for unwed mothers.
	history.boisestate.edu /westciv/earlymod/trails/fuggerei (233 words)

	HeritageQuest - Discovery Center
		The town is well known for its architectural landmarks, such as the cathedral, the broad Maximilian Strasse lined with patrician or wealthy citizen houses and the portions of the medieval wall that still surround the city.
		One of the outstanding landmarks of Augsburg is the "Fuggerei." This neighborhood was built by wealthy merchant Jakob Fugger the Rich, established for "industrious, innocently impoverished citizens of Augsburg" in 1516.
		The occupant and his family had to pray three times daily for the soul of Jakob Fugger the Rich, and they had to pay a yearly rent of 1 Rhenish guilden, equivalent to about 1.72 Deutschmarks today (less than $1 U.S. currency).
	www.heritagequest.com /genealogy/europe/html/fuggerei.html (422 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		burial chapel that Georg, Ulrich, and Jakob Fugger constructed between 1509 and 1518 in the...
		In 1988, Prince Hubertus Fugger of Bavaria purchased 1,300 forested acres in Adairsville, Ga. (an...
		Johannes) Thurzo, an engineer-entrepreneur, and Jakob Fugger II, an entrepreneurbanker, emerged.
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=SS&search_newspapers=on&search_magazines=on&q=Fugger&refid=ency_botnm (556 words)

	Descendants of Berthold Rem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jakob here is most likely the son of Andreas Fugger vom Reh, the older
		This is the start of the Fugger line that leads to the minor German nobility, the Count (Graf) Fuggers.
		Stammtafel des mediatisierten Hauses Fugger 1904 LDS 1224580/13.
	www.cba.hawaii.edu /remus/genes/Bavaria/Remtree.htm (959 words)

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