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Welser family

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Welser was a German banking and merchant family, originally a patrician family based in Augsburg and Nuremberg, that rose to great prominence in international high finance in the 16th century as bankers to the Habsburgs and financiers of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. [1]

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  1. 73 relations: Age of Discovery, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Ambras Castle, Ambrosius Ehinger, Antwerp, Archduchy of Austria, Atlantic slave trade, Augsburg, Bank, Baron, Bartholomeus V. Welser, Bartholomeus VI. Welser, Belisarius, Bogotá, Burgau, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Caribbean, Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof, Catholic Church, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles, Margrave of Burgau, Coro, Venezuela, Count, Dance Statute, Economy of Europe, El Tocuyo, Factory (trading post), Family, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Finance, Fugger family, Georg von Speyer, German colonization of the Americas, Germans, History of slavery, House of Habsburg, Italy in the Middle Ages, Juan de Carvajal, Klein-Venedig, Landgrave, Levant, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madrid, Maracaibo, Margrave, Margrave Andrew of Burgau, Mark Welser, ... Expand index (23 more) »

  2. Businesspeople from Nuremberg
  3. European colonization of the Americas
  4. History of Augsburg
  5. House of Welser

Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail. Welser family and Age of Discovery are European colonization of the Americas.

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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

(ADB; Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.

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Ambras Castle

Ambras Castle (Schloss Ambras) is a Renaissance castle and palace located in the hills above Innsbruck, Austria.

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Ambrosius Ehinger

Ambrosius Ehinger, also (Ambrosio Alfínger in Spanish) Dalfinger, Thalfinger, (ca. 1500 in Thalfingen near Ulm – 31 May 1533 near Chinácota in modern-day Colombia) was a German conquistador and the first governor of the Welser concession, also known as “Little Venice” (Klein-Venedig), in northern South America, now Venezuela.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Archduchy of Austria

The Archduchy of Austria (Erzherzogtum Österreich) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the nucleus of the Habsburg monarchy.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. Welser family and Atlantic slave trade are European colonization of the Americas.

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Augsburg

Augsburg (label) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich.

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Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical.

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Bartholomeus V. Welser

Prince Bartholomeus Welser (25 June 1484 in Memmingen28 March 1561 in Amberg) was a German banker. Welser family and Bartholomeus V. Welser are House of Welser.

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Bartholomeus VI. Welser

Bartholomeus VI. Welser family and Bartholomeus VI. Welser are House of Welser.

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Belisarius

Belisarius (Βελισάριος; The exact date of his birth is unknown. – 565) was a military commander of the Byzantine Empire under the emperor Justinian I. Belisarius was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the Mediterranean territory belonging to the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century prior.

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Bogotá

Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.

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Burgau

Burgau is a town in the district of Günzburg in Swabia, Bavaria.

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Cardinal (Catholic Church)

A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis) is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof

Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof (31 December 1663 – 1 February 1711 Nuremberg) was a mayor of Nuremberg. Welser family and Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof are House of Welser.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.

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Charles, Margrave of Burgau

Charles, Margrave of Burgau, also known as Charles of Austria, (22 November 1560 at Křivoklát Castle in Bohemia – 30 October 1618 in Überlingen), was the son of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria and his first morganatic marriage to Philippine Welser. Welser family and Charles, Margrave of Burgau are House of Welser.

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Coro, Venezuela

Coro is the capital of Falcón State and the second oldest city in Venezuela (after Cumaná).

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Count

Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility.

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Dance Statute

The Dance Statute established in 1521 a set of politically influential town hall balls that the magistrate of the Imperial City of Nuremberg held on certain days of the year, such as Sundays of the Lord's Carnival, or in honor of princes in the Old City Hall.

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Economy of Europe

The economy of Europe comprises about 748 million people in 50 countries.

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El Tocuyo

El Tocuyo is a fertile valley and city in west-central Venezuela at elevation.

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Factory (trading post)

Factory was the common name during the medieval and early modern eras for an entrepôt – which was essentially an early form of free-trade zone or transshipment point.

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Family

Family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).

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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564.

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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria

Ferdinand II, Archduke of Further Austria (Linz, 14 June 1529 – 24 January 1595, Innsbruck) was ruler of Further Austria and since 1564 Imperial count of Tyrol.

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Finance

Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.

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Fugger family

The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Welser family and Fugger family are banking families and history of Augsburg.

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Georg von Speyer

Georg von Speyer (1500, Speyer, Holy Roman Empire – 11 June 1540, Coro, Klein-Venedig) was a German conquistador in New Granada and Venezuela.

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German colonization of the Americas

German attempts at the colonization of the Americas consisted of German Venezuela (Klein-Venedig, also Welser-Kolonie), St. Thomas and Crab Island in the 16th and 17th centuries. Welser family and German colonization of the Americas are European colonization of the Americas.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.

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Italy in the Middle Ages

The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance.

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Juan de Carvajal

Juan de Carvajal was a Spanish conquistador and one of the first governors of Venezuela Province.

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Klein-Venedig

italics or Welserland (pronunciation) was the most significant territory of the German colonization of the Americas, from 1528 to 1546, in which the Welser banking and patrician family of the Free Imperial Cities of Augsburg and Nuremberg obtained colonial rights in the Province of Venezuela in return for debts owed by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who was also King of Spain. Welser family and Klein-Venedig are history of Venezuela and House of Welser.

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Landgrave

Landgrave (Landgraf, landgraaf, lantgreve, landgrave; comes magnus, comes patriae, comes provinciae, comes terrae, comes principalis, lantgravius) was a rank of nobility used in the Holy Roman Empire, and its former territories.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Maracaibo

Maracaibo (Marakaaya) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela.

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Margrave

Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or a kingdom.

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Margrave Andrew of Burgau

Andreas von Österreich, Margrave of Burgau, also known as Andrew of Austria (15 June 1558 at Březnice Castle in Březnice, Bohemia – 12 November 1600 in Rome) was a cardinal, Bishop of Constance and of Brixen. Welser family and Margrave Andrew of Burgau are House of Welser.

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Mark Welser

Mark Welser (1558–1614) was a German banker, politician, and astronomer, who engaged in learned correspondence with European intellectuals of his time. Welser family and Mark Welser are House of Welser.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries.

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Nikolaus Federmann

Nikolaus Federmann (Nicolás Féderman) (c. 1505, Ulm – February 1542, Valladolid) was a German adventurer and conquistador in what is modern-day Venezuela and Colombia.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.

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Oberhohenberg

The Oberhohenberg (1,011 metres) is the second highest mountain of the Swabian Alb, only four metres lower than the Lemberg.

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Patrician (post-Roman Europe)

Patricianship, the quality of belonging to a patriciate, began in the ancient world, where cities such as Ancient Rome had a social class of patrician families, whose members were initially the only people allowed to exercise many political functions.

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Philipp von Hutten

Philipp von Hutten (18 December 1505 – 17 May 1546) was a German adventurer and an early European explorer and conquistador of Venezuela. Welser family and Philipp von Hutten are history of Augsburg.

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Philippine Welser

Philippine Welser (1527 – 24 April 1580) was the morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria. Welser family and Philippine Welser are House of Welser.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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San Juan de la Maguana

San Juan de la Maguana is a city and municipality in the western region of the Dominican Republic and capital of the San Juan province.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.

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Southern Germany

Southern Germany is a region of Germany that included the areas in which Upper German dialects are spoken, which includes the stem duchies of Bavaria and Swabia in present-day Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and the southern portion of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate that were part of the Duchy of Franconia.

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Stockach

Stockach is a town in the district of Konstanz, in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Trade

Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

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Urs Bitterli

Urs Bitterli (born 19 May 1944) is a Swiss rower.

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Vasco da Gama

D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (– 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Venezuela Province

The Venezuela Province (or Province of Caracas) was a province of the Spanish Empire (from 1527), of Gran Colombia (1824–1830) and later of Venezuela (from 1830), apart from an interlude (1528–1546) when it was contracted as a concession by the King of Spain to the German Welser banking family, as Klein-Venedig.

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Venezuelan Coastal Range

The Venezuelan Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa or Serranía de la Costa), also known as Venezuelan Caribbean Mountain System (Sistema Montañoso Caribe), is a mountain range system and one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela, that runs along the central and eastern portions of Venezuela's northern coast.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Wealth

Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.

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See also

Businesspeople from Nuremberg

European colonization of the Americas

History of Augsburg

House of Welser

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welser_family

Also known as Welser, Welser, Bartholomeus, Welsers.

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