Bartholomäus V. Welser

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Bartholomäus Welser the Elder
Bartholomäus V. Welser, copper engraving by Georg Christoph Eimmart

Bartholomäus V. Welser the Elder (born June 25, 1484 in Memmingen , † March 28, 1561 in Amberg in Swabia) was an Augsburg patrician and wholesale merchant.

He was born as the son of Anton I. Welser, who at that time was the son-in-law of Hans Vöhlin the Elder . J. worked in the Memmingen Vöhlin Society, was born. His older sister was Margarete Welser , who married Konrad Peutinger in 1499 .

From 1519 to 1551 he was head of the Augsburg Welser Society, one of the largest trading, banking, shipping and mining companies of the 16th century. In 1528 he concluded an Asiento with the Spanish crown , with which the Welsers obtained governorship over the Spanish overseas province of Venezuela for a period of almost thirty years . As the banker of Emperor Charles V and the French King Franz I , he had a decisive influence on the powerful of his time.

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literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Welser, Bartholomäus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 54th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1886, p. 234 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hubert Freiherr von Welser: Bartholomäus Welser V. (1484–1561) . In: Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation : Series 3: Life pictures from Bavarian Swabia, edited by Götz Frhr. von Pölnitz , continued by Wolfgang Zorn, Adolf Layer , Josef Bellot and Wolfgang Haberl. Volume 4: Ed. By Götz Frhr. von Pölnitz, (formerly Max Hueber Verlag, Munich, now Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn), 1955, XII + 449 pp., ISBN 3-87437-068-2
  • Hubert Freiherr von Welser: Bartholomäus Welser. in: Bartholomäus Welser and his time , ed. from the city of Augsburg [culture and economic department], Augsburg 1962, 80 pages
  • Theodor Gustav Werner: Bartholomäus Welser. Becoming and working of a royal merchant of the Renaissance (continued), in: Scripta Mercaturae, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, vol. 1968/1, p. 89, and vol. 1968/2, p. 75

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SURNAME Welser, Bartholomäus V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartholomäus Welser the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augsburg patrician and merchant
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1484
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen , Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1561
Place of death On the mountain