Barbara Fugger

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Barbara Fugger (born May 4, 1419 in Augsburg ; † July 23, 1497 there ), née Bäsinger, was the wife of Jakob Fugger the Elder , who managed the family business for his sons after his death.

Life

Barbara Bäsinger was the daughter of goldsmith and mint master Franz Bäsinger and his wife Dorothea Seidenschwanz. After much advertising, Jakob Fugger married her on April 13, 1441. This significantly improved Fugger's social position and business contacts, but Franz Bäsinger later got into debt and had to emigrate. As a mint master in Tyrol, Bäsinger was later able to convey shares in silver mines to his daughter's family.

After the death of her husband in 1469, Barbara Fugger continued the family business together with her sons and was able to increase her husband's fortune to over 23,000 guilders (also called florins ) by the time she died. The sons, whose main job was initially traveling and making new contacts, played a key role in the business. In about 1492, regardless of their mother's fortune, they each had between 11,000 and 16,000 florins. Only after their death in 1497 did the Fugger brothers gain complete control over the family assets. Barbara Fugger was still excluded from the family's book of honor, which was written around 1540.

progeny

From her marriage to Jakob Fugger d. Ä. eleven or twelve children emerged, of which one or two died in childhood and three sons as young adults:

  • Ulrich Fugger (1441–1510), businessman, ∞ Veronika Lauginger
  • Andreas Fugger (1443–1461)
  • Anna Fugger (1444–1485), ∞ Hektor Mülich
  • Johann / Hans Fugger (1445–)
  • Markus Fugger (1448–1478), Canon in Augsburg
  • Peter Fugger (1450–1473)
  • Georg Fugger (1453–1506), businessman, ∞ Regina Imhoff
  • Barbara Fugger (1455–1533), ∞ Konrad Meuting
  • Walburga Fugger (1457–1500), ∞ Wilhelm Rehm
  • Jakob Fugger (1459–1525), businessman, ∞ Sibylla Fugger
  • Ursula Fugger (1461–1462)
  • Bartholomäus Fugger (1465)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c brief biography on schwabenmedia.de
  2. ↑ a b c d Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 176.
  3. ^ Mark Häberlein: The Fugger: History of an Augsburger Family, 1367-1650 , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2006
  4. ↑ geneanet.org, keyword Barbara Bäsinger

literature

personal data
SURNAME Fugger, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bäsinger, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife Jakob Fuggers the Elder
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1419
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1497
Place of death augsburg