Fugger-Wellenburg

Family coat of arms

Fugger-Wellenburg was a sideline of the Fugger family that died out in the male line in 1764.

Wellenburg Castle

history

In 1595 Jakob Fugger III bought. the wave castle and associated buildings for 70,000 florins. After an inheritance was divided among his sons, the founder of the so-called Wellenburg branch, Hieronymus Fugger, received, among other things, the dominions of Wellenburg, Bergheim and estates in Bobingen . In 1628 he also acquired the Burgwalden estate , which had previously been pledged to the Fuggers by the Augsburg patrician family Höchstetter .

At the end of the 17th century, the estate also included the Welden rule . When the so-called Marx line, founded by Markus Fugger , died out in 1676, the Biberbach dominion (each half divided with the Fugger-Glött line), the Gablingen dominion and, from 1689, the Reinhartshausen dominion were added. Until 1687, the Fugger-Wellenburg line also belonged to the Austrian lien in Ronsberg .

In 1764 the last bearer of the name, Joseph Maria Fugger von Wellenburg, died childless. As a result, the entire property fell to the Fugger-Babenhausen line . Exceptions were the rule of Welden, which after years of dispute between the Allodialberben and the House of Habsburg was withdrawn from the Margraviate of Burgau as an extinct male fief. The Wasserburg outpost on Lake Constance, which Jakob Fugger III built in 1592. from the Counts of Montfort had already been sold to the House of Habsburg a year earlier for debt repayment.

family tree

• Hieronymus Graf Fugger zu Wellenburg and Rettenbach (1584–1633); ∞ 1615 Countess Maria Fugger
  • Ignatius Graf Fugger (1618-1619)
  • Count Leopold Fugger zu Wellenburg, Wasserburg, Tratzberg, Welden and Rettenbach (1620–1662); ∞ 1651 Maria Johanna Countess Fugger
    • Maria Anna Countess Fugger (1655–1701); ∞ 1676 Maximilian Wilhelm Graf von Maxlrain
    • Anton Joseph Count Fugger zu Wasserburg and Biberbach (1656–1701); ∞ 1681 Maria Franziska Freiin von Neuhaus
      • Maximilian Count Fugger zu Wellenburg, Wasserburg, Biberbach and Welden (1682–1717); ∞ 1705 Maria Theresa Freiin von Waldburg
        • Joseph Maria Graf Fugger zu Wellenburg, Wasserburg, Biberbach and Welden (1714–1764); ∞ 1735 Antonia Countess Fugger
        • Anton Eusebius Graf Fugger (* around 1716)
        • Theresia Magdalena Countess Fugger (* 1718)
      • Violanta Countess Fugger (1683–1704); ∞ 1702 Joseph Karl Guidobald Welsperg von Primör and Raitenau
      • Joseph Clemens Graf Fugger (* 1685)
    • Franz Joachim Count Fugger zu Wellenburg, Welden and Rettenbach (1658–1685); 1.∞ 1679 Maria Franziska Eusebia Countess Fugger; 2.∞ 1680 Maria Elisabeth Countess Lodron

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anton Stauber: The Fugger House . BoD - Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86403-094-9 ( google.de [accessed June 14, 2019]).
2. ↑ Excerpt from the representations of the legal relationships in their houses by the members of the Association of German Classes . Laupp, 1876 ( google.de [accessed June 14, 2019]).
3. ↑ Peter Fassl, Walter Pötzl: Rule and politics: from the early Middle Ages to the regional reform . Landratsamt Augsburg, 2003 ( google.de [accessed June 14, 2019]).
4. ^ Andreas Kraus: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century . CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-39452-2 ( google.de [accessed on June 14, 2019]).
5. ^ Fugger dominions - Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .