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Fugger
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Fug·ger  (fgr)
Family of German financiers who exerted great economic and political influence in the 15th and 16th centuries. Founded by Johannes (1348-1409), the family business was greatly expanded by his son Jakob (died 1469).
Fugger (German) [ˈfʊgər]
n
(Biographies / X 15th- and 16th-century Europe) a German family of merchants and bankers, prominent in 15th- and 16th-century Europe
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The four Paris brothers, employers of her father Francois Poisson, were the small Fuggers or Rothschilds of eighteenth-century France, and profited from the war.
The marquise de Pompadour visits London by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
In the next town, Augsburg, I discovered the Fuggerei - 167 houses and apartments donated to the city's poor in the 17th century by the Fuggers, a family of cloth merchants, and believed to be the oldest subsidised housing development in the world.
Fantasy land; Ludwig II of Bavaria may have been barking mad, but he ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Even during the late Middle Ages, feudal lords, kings, and even emperors were not necessarily much richer than their vassals--one remembers, for instance, how Emperor Maximilian died penniless (during the last days of his life, no inn could be found that would lodge him and his followers) and how Charles V's election was brought about by the money provided by the Fuggers family.
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