The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger
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Memmingen Articles, 200, 206, 213
Meuthing, Hans, 106
Mielke, Thomas, 245
Milan, 39, 41, 64, 79, 119, 158, 194, 245
Mohacs, Hungary, 235
Mombasa, 56, 186
monopoly, xv, 45, 82, 86, 89, 93, 105, 174, 186
Montaigne, Michel de, 95
Morat, Battle of, 53
Morgan, J. P., 249
Mozart, Franz, 171
Mozart, Wolfgang von Amadeus, 95, 171
Mühlhausen, Germany, 208
Müntzer, Thomas, 207–209, 212, 251
Naples, xi, 158, 231
Napoleon, 11, 101, 129, 247
Neuenhausen, Eberhard von, 83
Neusohl, 111, 137, 216, 235
North Sea, 85
Notizie Scritte, 34
Novgorod, Russia, 88
Nuremberg, 17, 41, 68, 80, 87, 89, 101, 103, 106, 108, 186, 188, 191, 207, 245
Nuremberg Diet, 138
Occo, Adolph, 215, 228
On Miners’ Sickness and Other Miners’ Diseases, 32
Open Letter to the German Nobility, 177
Oertel, Matthaus, 239, 240
Oppenheimer, Samuel, 249
Ovid, 116
Pace, Richard, 159–161
Padua, Italy, 78, 214
Paracelsus, 31, 32, 174
Paris, 115
Pavia, Battle of, 193, 194, 196, 200, 220
Pepper Sack, 60
Perlach Tower, 95, 193, 244
Peru, xi, 236
Peruzzi, 229
Pescara, 194, 195
Peutinger, Conrad, 55, 187, 188, 192, 193, 196
Peutinger Map, 187
Pfaffenhoffen, 202
Philip of Wittelsbach, 61
Pico della Mirandola, 40, 51, 150
Pirckheimer, Willibald, 102, 107
Ploss, Hans, 216
Plutarch, 107
Po River, 194
Pölnitz, Gottfried Götz von, 51, 254, 255, 256
Poor Conrad, 201
Potosi, Bolivia, 18
Prince Fugger Private Bank, 245
Querini, Vincenzo, 66
Radbot of Klettgau, 11
Rattenberg, 61, 62
Regensburg, 251
Rehlinger, Conrad, 50, 226, 229
Rehm, Batholomaus, 186, 187
Rem, Lucas, 59, 60
Rem, Wilhelm, 49
Rhegius, Urbanus, 192, 212, 270
Riga, Latvia, 90
Rinck, Johann, 169
Robbers, the 174, 176
Rockefeller, John D., xiv, 44, 100, 173
Roggenburg, Germany, 203
Rohrbach, Jacklein, 205, 210
Rolling Stone, 250
Rothschild, Nathan, 249, 250
Rome, xi, xii, 2, 16, 36, 38, 51, 64, 67, 70, 71, 73, 78, 79, 81–84, 88, 91, 93, 102, 103, 105, 108, 111, 123–126, 129, 145, 151, 155, 174, 176, 178, 179, 186, 191, 211, 221, 222, 225, 227, 231, 235, 237, 248, 250
St. Anima hospice, 81
St. Anne, 47, 132, 144, 150, 226, 244
St. Anne almshouse, 167
St. Moritz, 131, 135, 168
St. Peter’s Basilica, 122, 126, 128
St. Peter’s indulgence, 122, 128
St. Ulrich and Afra, 95
Salzburg, 24, 72, 124, 206
Savonarola, 39
Schilling, Johannes, 191, 212
Schlamding, Austria, 214
Schmalkaldic League, 237
Schmiechen, Germany, 62, 67, 82
Schwarz, Matthaus, 135–137, 210, 228
Schwaz, Austria, 17, 18, 21, 28, 32, 39, 80, 106, 111, 139, 206, 212, 214, 227, 230, 236, 237
Second Lateran Council, 104
Segovia, 165
Sender, Clemens, 94, 228, 229
Seville, 165
Ship of Fools, 106
Sickingen, Franz von, 161, 174, 180, 182
Sigismund, King of Poland, 113, 116, 218
Sixtus IV, 16
Speiser, Johannes, 133, 169
Speyer, 83
Sprenger, Balthazar, 57
spice trade, 8, 59, 144
Spindletop, 17
Stadion, Christoph von, 134
Stanford University, 172
Strauss, Jacob, 212
Strigel, Bernhard, 50
Süleyman the Magnificent, 219, 220, 234
Swabian League, 183, 200, 202, 216, 218
syphilis, xv, 116, 142, 173, 184, 192
Szathmary, George, 116
Tacitus, 4
Tarbell, Ida, 173
Tetzel, Johannes, 126–130
thaler, 22
Teutonic Knights, 228
Thames River, 86
Three Brothers, 52, 53, 247
Thurzo, Alexi, 216, 219, 232, 235
Thurzo, George, 30
Thurzo, Johannes, 216
Titian, 9
Toledo, 165, 166
Tordesillas, 165
Trastámaras, House of, 64
Treaty on Usury, 177
Trent, Italy, 72, 73, 78, 124, 206
Truchsess, George von, 200, 201, 204, 207, 208, 210, 211, 214, 251
Trier, 11, 14, 24, 145, 160, 181, 182, 206
Tübingen University, 50
Tudor, House of, 12, 247
Tyrol, 6, 18–21, 25, 27, 28, 39, 79, 80, 89, 98, 106, 115, 118, 138, 139, 141, 144, 211, 212, 214, 231, 238
Ulm, 200
Ulrich of Württemberg, 50, 200
Urban II, 125
Urban III, 104
Valladolid, 165, 195
Valois, House of, 12, 146, 157
Vatican City, 235
Venezuela, 236
Venice, 1, 4, 7–10, 19, 20, 34, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 55, 56, 58, 60, 66, 67, 70, 72–74, 78–80, 86, 88, 91, 94, 109, 120, 136, 194, 214
Verona, Italy, 72, 78, 80
Vienna, 11, 17, 24, 27, 28, 30, 34, 63, 92, 114–119, 152, 214, 220, 249
Villach, Austria, 27, 31, 238
War of Landshut Succession, 61, 65
Wartburg Castle, 186
Wehe, Jacob, 202–204
Welser family, 106, 144, 145, 148, 167
Anton 55, 58–60
Weissenhorn, 61, 65–67, 202, 206, 209, 225, 231, 245
Wettin, House of, 13
George of Brandenburg, 148, 181, 199, 204, 208, 218, 256
White Rose, 52
Widolf, Clara, 5
Wilhelm I, 146
Wilhelm II, 146
Wittelsbach, House of, 13, 61
Wittenberg, 128–130, 146
Wolsey, Thomas, 123
Württemberg, 50, 268
Worms, 35, 36, 178–180, 223, 253
Zacatecas, 18
Zalkanus, 216
Zamorin of Calicut, 58
Zápolya, John, 112, 216, 219
Zink, Johannes, 81–84, 88, 112, 124, 134, 155, 221, 222, 225
Zwin River, 88
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Steinmetz, Greg.
The richest man who ever lived : the life and times of Jacob Fugger / Greg Steinmetz.
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1. Fugger, Jakob, 1459–1525. 2. Bankers—Germany—Biography. 3. Moneylenders—Germany—Biography. 4. Businessmen—Germany—Biography. 5. Germany—History—1273–1517. I. Title.
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