Sibylla Fugger

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Jakob and Sibylla Fugger (wedding portrait)
Jakob and Sibylla Fugger with their coat of arms in the "Secret Book of Honor of the Fugger"
Sibylla Fugger in the Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum imagines (1618)

Sibylla Fugger , later Sibylla Rehlinger , née Artzt (* around 1480 in Augsburg ; † 1546 there), was her first marriage to Jakob Fugger the Rich (1459–1525) and her second marriage to Konrad Rehlinger the Elder. Ä. (1470–1556) married.

Her first name is also written Sibilla , Sibylle or Sybille in various sources ; her last name as a doctor , Artztin or Artztein .

Life

Sibylla Artzt was the daughter of Wilhelm Artzt and Sibylla Sulzer, a very wealthy and respected family in the city. Contrary to what can sometimes be read, she was not a patrician . She was the niece of the guild master Ulrich Artzt, who later became mayor and captain of the Swabian Federation . In 1498, 18-year-old Sibylla became the wife of 39-year-old Jakob Fugger. The bride's dowry was the high sum of 5000 fl . There is a wedding portrait of the marriage with the majuscule inscription: "ON THE NINTH DAY IANVARI IN 1498 IAR IN THE FORM WE CAME ZV SAME VIRWAR". The wedding picture is the only authentic portrait of the Sibylla Artzt. It is ascribed to either Thoman Burgkmair or his son Hans Burgkmair the Elder . The painting is privately owned in England.

The house on Weinmarkt , which Jakob Fugger bought from his mother-in-law in 1511 , became the center of the Fuggerian trading empire: the Fugger houses on what is now Maximilianstrasse in Augsburg.

There is little archival evidence of the 27-year marriage. Jakob Fugger had himself and his wife accepted into the brotherhood of the monks of St. Ulrich in 1510 and he bought spiritual offices . He bought a burial place for his wife in the Dominican monastery of St. Magdalena .

Since the marriage remained childless, Jakob Fugger divided his inheritance between his nephews in his two wills and is said to have given his wife less generosity than in the first testament. That Sibylla should have received four parts from the famous Burgundy treasure is refutable. Jakob Fugger bought four pieces of the treasure in 1504, but in 1515 he sold a piece of it, the so-called "little feather", to Emperor Maximilian I. His heir Anton Fugger sold another piece , the "Three Brothers", to King Henry VIII in 1542 . of England . The two parts "Rose" and "Gürtelein" remained in the possession of the Fuggers and were not bequeathed to Sibylla. Jakob Fugger died on December 30, 1525 and was buried in the Fugger Chapel in the Church of St. Anna .

In order to avoid inheritance disputes with her nephews, Sibylla left the Fugger houses and in February 1526 married the widowed businessman Konrad Rehlinger (1470–1556), who belonged to the old patriciate of the imperial city and was a friend of Jakob Fugger, Lutheran and converted . Their second marriage was for 20 years; Konrad Rehlinger survived his wife by 10 years. Sibylla rests in the family burial place of the Rehlinger family in the St. Anne's Church. Neither a stone nor an inscription reminds them of them.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martha Schad : The women of the house Fugger von der Lilie (15th – 17th century) , p. 161; other sources, e.g. B. [1] , give Konrad Rehlinger's life dates as 1470–1553.
  2. ↑ Martha Schad : The women of the Fugger house. With gentle power to world fame. 5th edition. Piper, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-23818-2
  3. ↑ Götz von Pölnitz : Jakob Fugger. , Volume 1, JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1951, ISBN 978-3-16-814572-1 , p. 101
  4. ↑ Kurt Lochs: Studies on Upper German portrait painting of the 16th century. In: Yearbook of the State Art Collections in Baden-Württemberg. 4, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1967, pp. 31–84., Pp. 38–41.
  5. ↑ Frank Jakupski: The painter Hans Burgkmair d. Ä. 1984 (dissertation Bochum)., P. 7 (number of pages above)
  6. ^ Norbert Lieb: Die Fugger and the art in the age of the late Gothic and early Renaissance (= studies on the Fugger history volume 1 ), Munich 1952, p. 266
  7. ↑ Greg Steinmetz: The richest man in world history. Life and work of Jakob Fugger. 2nd Edition. FinanzBook Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-89879-961-4 , pp. 259-261.

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SURNAME Fugger, Sibylla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doctor, Sibylla; Doctor, Sibylle; Fugger, Sibylle; Rehlinger, Sibylla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Jakob Fugger
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1546
Place of death augsburg