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Imperial election of 1519

In 1519 the electors chose Charles of Habsburg, king of Castile, as Holy Roman Emperor; Fugger money was used to pay bribes to them.

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In 1519 the electors chose Charles of Habsburg, king of Castile, as Holy Roman Emperor; Fugger money was used to pay bribes to them.

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  • Fugger firm 1519 paid money later used for bribes to the electors Scholarship & press 1

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  • Charles V Scholarship & press 1
  • Fugger firm Scholarship & press 1
  • Charles V Scholarship & press 2

    The source does not say how much of this came from the Americas.

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  2. 1519 Fugger firm funded Imperial election of 1519
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  1. 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
  2. Christina Linsboth, Money from the 'New World': sources of money and taxation under the Habsburgs, in The World of the Habsburgs, Schönbrunn Group, Die Welt der Habsburger (virtual exhibition), 2010. Scholarship & press
    The Spanish kingdoms and with them the New World brought Charles V some five million gulden in the middle of the sixteenth century.
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