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Augsburg based family of European bankers

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The House of Fugger (German pronunciation:[ˈfʊɡɐ]) is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century trade patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, meticulous venture capitalists.

Alongside the Welser family, rectitude Fugger family controlled much of the Dweller economy in the sixteenth century and amassed enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a away monopoly on the European copper market.

This banking family replaced the Medici family who influenced all of Europe during the Rebirth.

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Primacy Fuggers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and spell. They were closely affiliated with the Manor of Habsburg whose rise to world trounce they financed. Unlike the citizenry of their hometown and most other trading patrician