Organization
Fugger firm
Augsburg banking and trading house that lent to the Habsburgs in the 1500s.
- Also known as
- House of Fugger
Augsburg banking and trading house that lent to the Habsburgs in the 1500s.
Connections 4
funded
- Imperial election of 1519 1519 paid money later used for bribes to the electors Scholarship & press 1
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Charles V
1546–1547
Scholarship & press
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Loans, as the source tells it.
involved in
- Imperial election of 1519 Scholarship & press 1
headquartered in
Timeline 2 dates
- 1519 Fugger firm funded Imperial election of 1519
- 1546–1547 Fugger firm funded Charles V
Proof 1 source
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Christina Linsboth, 'Sponsored by Fugger': trading houses as financial backers, in The World of the Habsburgs, Schönbrunn Group, Die Welt der Habsburger (virtual exhibition), 2010.
Scholarship & press
Money from the Fuggers was also used to pay bribes to the electoral princes in connection with the election of Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519
he later used loans provided by the Fuggers to finance the war against the Schmalkalden League of Protestant princes in Germany in 1546-7
The banking and trading house of Fugger from Augsburg was particularly well-known.
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