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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger

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by Greg Steinmetz


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  Index

  A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

  Adelmann, Bernard, 101, 107, 108

  Adrian of Utrecht. See Hadrian VI

  Adrianople, 219, 220

  Agincourt, 194

  Alber, Hans, 216, 217, 219

  Albrecht of Mainz See Hohenzollern, House of

  Albrecht of Prussia, 228

  Aleppo, 56

  Alexander VI, 50, 80

  Alexandria, 7, 55, 56, 58

  Almeida, Francisco, 56–58, 182

  Alsace, 18

  antitrust. See monopoly

  Antwerp, 23, 41, 55, 59, 60, 79, 88, 120, 162, 231, 239, 240, 241

  Aquinas, Thomas, 2, 104, 109

  Aristotle, 103, 104, 109, 110

  Arnoldstein, Austria, 26, 27, 29, 30

  Artzt, Sybille. See Fugger

  Augsburg, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 28, 34, 41, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55, 57, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 68, 71, 75, 77, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 102, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 119, 120, 124, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 156, 157, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 178, 180, 183, 186, 187, 188, 191, 193, 200, 201, 202, 206, 208, 209, 210, 212, 221, 227, 228, 231, 235, 236, 237, 238, 240, 243, 244, 245, 248, 250, 254, 255

  Augsburg Contract, 107, 108, 110

  Augsburg Diet, 145, 151, 193

  Baltic Sea, 86

  Bamberg, 43, 83

  Barbarossa, 13

  Bardi, 229

  Baring, Francis, 249

  Basinger, Franz 6

  Baumgarten, 42

  Beatis, Antonio de, 144, 145

  Becker, Carl, 236

  Behaim, Martin, 106

  Belz, Mechtild, 50, 246

  Bergen, Norway, 86

  Berges, Max von, 146

  Berlin, 122, 128, 256

  Biberbach, Germany, 192, 202, 203, 206

  Bismarck, Otto von, 101, 146

  Black Death, 4, 26

  Black Forest, 18, 199

  Black Hoffman, 205

  Blankenfeld, Johannes, 124, 125

  Boblingen, Germany, 210

  Bologna University, 80, 109, 187

  Borgia, Cesare, 50, 116

  Brant, Sebastian, 106

  Bratislava, 111

  Braunschweig, 128

  Brecht, Bertolt, 244

  Brescia, Italy, 78, 121

  Bremen, 86

  Brixen, Austria, 43, 80, 81, 84

  Bruckner, Anton, 251

  Bruges, 48, 86, 88

  Buda, 27, 216, 217, 219, 220, 225, 234

  Bundschuh, 179, 184

  Burgkmair, Hans, 48

  Burgundian Treasure, 52, 247

  Cairo, 56

  Cajetan, 150, 151

  Canisius, Peter, 248

  Caravajal, Bernardino, 71

  Casola, Pietro, 8, 9

  Castle of the Hawk, 11

  Charlemagne, 12, 37, 65, 126, 142, 147, 166

  Charles the Bold, 11, 13, 18, 24, 34, 52, 54, 65, 72, 92, 115, 117

  Charles VIII, king of France, 24, 36

  Catherine of Aragon, 158

  Chigi, Agostino, 93

  Church of the Barefoot Monks, 191

  Clement V, 104

  Coeur, Jacques, 141

  Cologne, 1, 4, 23, 83, 86, 89, 103, 145, 160, 169, 181, 188

  Columbus, Christopher, 54, 63, 163

  Common Hungarian Trade, 27

  Common Penny, 38, 41, 120

  Constance, Germany, 65, 66, 101, 147

  Constantine, 126

  Cortez, Hernan, 116

  Corvinus, Matthew, 24, 27, 30, 117

  Countess of Lupfen, 199, 200

  Cracow, 30, 217, 218

  Cremona, Italy, 78

  Damenhof, 94,
245

  Danish Sound, 87, 88

  Dante, 104

  Danzig, 44, 45, 85, 86, 88, 90

  Damascus, 55

  Dernschwamm, 217, 218, 219

  Detti, Guido, 56

  Diet of Worms, 179, 253

  Dietrichstein, 214

  Dijon, 35, 254

  Dobratsch Mountains, 26

  dollar, 22

  double wedding, 114, 117, 118

  Dorpat, Estonia, 90

  double-entry bookkeeping, 10, 231, 250

  Dozsa, Gyorgy, 112, 216

  Dracula, 111, 112

  Drau River, 27

  Dürer, Albrecht, 40, 48, 102, 106, 133, 136, 149, 150, 156, 168

  Earl of Cornwall, 158

  Ebernburg Castle, 183

  Eck, Johannes, 107, 133

  Edward III, King of England, 52

  Elizabeth, Queen of England, 52

  Engels, Frederick, 198, 199, 201

  Erasmus, 2, 16, 102, 109, 116, 173

  Ermine Portrait, 52

  Fabri, Johannes, 109, 110

  Ferdinand, King of Spain, 63, 64, 79

  Fifth Lateran Council, 110

  Florence, 16, 39, 61, 94, 109

  Fondaco dei Tedeschi, 8, 9

  Francis I, king of France, 119, 120, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 191, 192, 194, 196, 220, 235

  Frankfurt, 1, 23, 41, 51, 75, 147, 159, 160, 162, 173, 187, 201, 207, 209, 211

  Frankfurt Cathedral, 160

  Frederick the Wise, 125, 128, 148, 158

  French Revolution, 198

  Fugger

  Alexander von Fugger Babenhausen, 246

  Andreas, 6, 15

  Anton, 155, 221, 224–225, 227, 230, 233, 234–240, 241, 247

  Barbara, née Basinger, 6, 7

  George, 7, 44, 47, 96, 133, 167, 224

  Hans, 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 28

  Hans Jacob, 240

  Hieronymus, 224

  Jacob the Elder, 6, 7

  Jacob, the younger

  Arnoldstein purchase, 27

  Augsburg uprising, 191

  avoids bank run, 82

  bribes electors, 147

  Burgundian treasure, 51

  buys Rattenberg lease, 61

  buys Kirchberg and Weissenhorn, 65

  Cajetan visit, 150, 151

  challenges Hansa, 85

  coat of arms, 14

  death, 228

  defends capitalism, 67

  denies Zink, 221

  Dürer portrait, 149

  election loan strategy, 153

  election debt repaid, 195

  electors demand Fugger, 161

  epitaph, xvi, 232, 252

  family meeting, 96

  first loan, 19

  flees to Biberbach, 192

  flings coins, 62

  Fugger Palace, 94

  Fuggerei, 167

  funeral chapel, 133

  gives gifts in Vienna, 116

  hires Schwarz, 135

  Indian trade voyage, 54

  indulgences, 125

  invests in Hungary, 27

  illegitimate daughter, 50

  imperial election, 142

  Knights’ War, 181

  labor relations 33

  loans to Albrecht, 125

  loyalty oath 96

  Luther visit, 150

  Magellan, 197

  Marriage, 48

  meeting with electors, 147

  meets Duke George of Saxony, 148

  negotiating tactics, 119

  Open Letter to the German Nobility, 177

  papal mint, 71

  Pavia, 193

  Pepper Sack, 60

  Poisoning, 134

  postage stamp, 207

  Robbers, The, 174

  Rothschild similarities, 249

  St. Moritz, 131

  seeks double wedding, 114

  ship seized, 85

  Swabian league, 183

  thoughts on asset allocation, 137

  usury debate, 102

  wealth calculation, xiv, 255

  Weissenhorn, 61

  will, 223

  Württemburg war, 156

  Venice, 9, 19

  Youth, 9

  Josef Ernst von Glott, 244

  Lucas, 41, 79, 230

  Markus, elder brother of Jacob Fugger the Younger, 7, 16

  Markus, grandnephew of Jacob Fugger the Younger, 94, 241

  Peter, 7

  Raymund, 224–225

  Sybille, née Artzt, 48–51, 226, 245

  Ulrich the Elder, 7, 14, 16, 38, 44, 47, 93, 96, 133, 215, 224

  Ulrich the Younger, 179, 223, 224

  Ursula, 248

  Fugger Chapel, 133, 144, 226, 244

  Fugger House, 217

  Fugger Palace, 94, 118, 126, 144, 150, 151, 179, 223, 228, 234, 236, 243, 244, 245

  Fugger News Letters, 34

  Fuggerau, 31, 32, 38, 42, 43, 73, 81, 141, 174, 238, 246

  Fuggerei, 167–171, 177, 199, 224, 231, 244–246

  Füssen, Germany, 39, 42

  Gaismair, Michael, 211, 212

  Gama, Vasco da, 54

  Gemmingen, Uriel von, 123

  Gentlemen’s Drinking Room, 15, 75, 93

  George of Brandenburg. See Wettin, House of

  German Peasants’ War, 198, 210, 215, 227, 230

  Gfatterman, Elizabeth, 6

  Ghent, 24, 41, 254

  Giorgione, 9

  Godshuisen, 167

  Goethe, Wolfgang von, 230

  Golden Bull, 142, 147

  Golden Counting Room, 52

  Goldman Sachs, 250

  Gossembrot, George, 42, 44, 51

  Gossembrot, Sigmund, 42, 44, 51

  Graben, 3, 42

  Gregory VIII, 248

  Greiffenklau, Richard von, 181–183, 206

  guldiners, 22

  Habsburgs

  Charles V, xi, xvi, 24, 36, 90, 100, 141, 194, 195, 220, 230, 236, 247, 253

  Ferdinand, 114–116, 139, 180, 200, 205, 211–214, 216, 227, 228, 231, 235, 236

  Franz Ferdinand, 245

  Frederick III, 11–15, 18, 23–25, 36, 38, 63, 65, 117, 142

  Margaret, Duchess of Savoy, 78, 91, 156

  Maria Theresa, 247

  Mary, 114

  Maximilian

  coronation as king of the Germans, 24

  relationship with Dürer, 149

  first meeting with Fugger, 23

  hires Lamparter, 50

  phony coronation, 72

  intervenes in Meckau affair, 84

  defends Fugger against Hansa, 89

  revokes smelter deal, 118

  illegitimate daughter, 205

  Philip II, 140

  Philip the Fair, 39, 63, 64, 117

  Rudolf, 11

  Sigmund Rich in Coins, 18–22, 25, 27, 32, 38, 42, 54, 73, 106, 118, 137, 148, 213

  Hadrian VI, 195

  Halberstadt, 123

  Hamburg, 86, 90

  Hanseatic League, 85, 100

  Haro, Christoph de, 197

  Hausmachtpolitik, 12, 28, 116, 146, 181, 194

  Heilbronn, Germany, 205

  Henlein, Peter, 106

  Henry VII, king of England, 24, 34, 39

  Henry VIII, king of England, 120, 158, 235, 247

  Herman of Cologne, 181

  Herwart, 42, 44

  Hitler, Adolf, 243

  Hochstetter, Ambrose, 15, 71, 77, 106, 118, 121, 186, 195, 200, 206, 230

  Hohenheim, William von, 31, 174. See also Paracelsus

  Hohenkirchen, 38, 43

  Hohenzollern, House of, 122, 130, 145, 173, 181

  Albrecht of Mainz, 122, 146, 147

  Joachim of Bradenburg, 146

  Holbein, Hans der Elder, 48

  Holy Roman Empire, 11, 12, 142, 155, 247, 249

  Hospice of St. Anima, 81

  Hutten, Ulrich von, xvi, 172

  Idria, Slovenia, 195

  Illsung, Sebastian, 10
7

  Ingolstadt University, 108

  Innsbruck, 6, 11, 17, 20, 32, 34, 39, 43, 61, 65, 92, 118, 120, 152, 212, 238, 255

  International Monetary Fund, 21

  Isabella of Castile, 63

  Ivan III, tsar of Russia, 88

  Jagiellon, House of, 30

  Janissaries, 219, 234

  Jews, 7, 105, 106, 249

  Joachim of Bradenburg. See Hohenzollern, House of

  Joanna of Castile, a.k.a. Juana la Loca, 63, 117

  Jordan, David Starr, 172

  Juarez, Benito, 248

  Julius II, 71, 80, 108, 126, 182, 206

  Junker George, alias of Martin Luther, 186

  Justinian I, 185

  Karnberg, Austria, 66

  Kasimir of Brandenburg, 231

  Kempten, Germany, 211

  Kirchberg, 61, 65, 211, 225

  Kirchheim, Germany, 244

  Knights War, 181, 200

  Krebs, Thomas, 168

  Kress, Anton, 107

  Kufstein, 61

  Lamparter, Gregor, 50, 162

  Landstuhl Castle, 183

  Lang, Matthaus, 72, 107, 124, 200

  Lassalle, Ferdinand, 250

  Lauingen, Germany, 128

  Leipheim, Germany, 202, 204

  Leo X, 108, 110, 123–126, 135, 145, 158, 195, 232, 248

  Leonardo da Vinci, 144

  Ladislaus, king of Hungary, 30, 113, 116

  Leiden, 167

  Liechtenstein, Paul von, 62, 64, 72, 92, 119

  Little Feather, 52, 247

  Lisbon, 55, 58, 237

  Loaísa, Jofre de, 197

  London, 4, 86, 162

  Lotzer, Sebastian, 200–202

  Louis, king of Hungary, 114, 116, 215, 216–221, 227, 234

  Louis of Aragon, 144, 154

  Louis XII, king of France, 119

  Lübeck, 86, 88, 89, 113, 159, 196

  Ludwig I, 251

  Luther Hans, 32

  Luther, Martin, xiv, 32, 82, 108, 111, 116, 122, 129, 130, 150, 176–180, 186, 189, 191, 192, 196, 204, 206, 208, 218, 226–228, 235, 237, 245, 248, 250, 253

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, 60, 66, 90, 119, 143

  Madrid, 165, 235, 237

  Maestrazgos, 195, 230, 231, 237, 249

  Magdeburg, 123

  Magellan, Ferdinand, xiv, 196

  Mainz, 104, 122–125, 130, 160, 209

  Manlich, Matthias, 235

  Mantel, Hilary, 246

  Manuel I, King of Portugal, 54, 56, 59

  Margarethe von Helfenstein, 205

  Marie Antoinette, 247

  Marth, Caspar, 188

  Mary of Burgundy, 14, 34, 78, 117, 152

  Maurice of Saxony, 237, 238

  Meckau, Melchoir von, 43, 80–84, 154, 213

  Medici family, xiv, 15, 44, 98, 105, 108

  Cosimo de’, 229, 249

  Giovanni de’, see Leo X

  Lorenzo de’, 39, 123, 230

  Meissen, Germany, 80

  Memmingen, Germany, 200–203

 

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