Welser was a German banking and merchant family, originally a patrician family based in Augsburg and Nuremberg, that rose to great prominence in international...

mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century...

Medici family in the 15th century. The Fugger family of mercantile bankers and venture capitalists, the richest family in the 16th century. The Welser family...

Domingo by the Welser family of Augsburg, who had signed an agreement to explore the territory of Venezuela. As an agent of the Welser family, Federmann took...

Welser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bartholomeus V. Welser (c. 1475 – 1559), Augsburg merchant and banker Bartholomeus VI. Welser...

Philippine Welser (1527 – 24 April 1580) was the morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria. She was granted the titles Baroness of Zinnenburg...

Portuguese used an international syndicate of the German Fugger family and Welser family, as well as Spanish and Italian firms, which operated out of Hamburg...

there had been assigned to the Welser family by the Emperor Charles V. When Philipp von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI. Welser were on a expedition to find...

Americas consisted of German Venezuela (German: Klein-Venedig, also German: Welser-Kolonie), St. Thomas and Crab Island in the 16th and 17th centuries. Klein-Venedig...

Neu-Augsburg, it was the first German colony in the Americas under the Welser family of Augsburg (from 1528 to 1546). It was then the first capital of the...

Bartholomeus VI. Welser (the younger, 26 October 1512 – c. 17 May 1546) was a member of the Welser banking family, which had acquired the colonial rights...

(1649–1706), a merchant of Hamburg and Lisbon, who was descended from the Welser family. They were the parents of Rudolf Berenberg (1712–61), a merchant in...

In 1505 three Imhoffs, as well as members of the Hirschvogel and Welser families, took part in an expedition on the first trade trip of Upper German...

was contracted as a concession by the King of Spain to the German Welser banking family, as Klein-Venedig. It has its origins with the 1527 foundation of...

banned. However, forced labor under the Encomienda continues. 1536 The Welser family is dispossessed of the Asiento monopoly (granted in 1528) following...

Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof (31 December 1663 – 1 February 1711 Nuremberg) was a mayor of Nuremberg. He was the son of Carl Welser (born 6 April 1635)...

Klein-Venedig (1528 - 1546), the concession of Venezuela Province to the Welser banking family by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. Hutten was born...

Banking families are families that have been involved in banking for multiple generations, generally in the modern era as owners or co-owners of banks...

rediscovered in 1597 by Marcus Welser (a member of the Welser family and relative of Peutinger). According to Welser, who wrote a commentary on the map...

which was an essential export good for the trade with India. Unlike the Welser family, Jakob Fugger's participation in the overseas trade was very cautious...

The following image is a family tree of every prince, king, queen, monarch, confederation president and emperor of Germany, from Charlemagne in 800 over...

and Hamburg merchant Paul Amsinck (1649–1706) and a descendant of the Welser family. Their sons, Senator Paul Berenberg (1716–1768) and Johann Berenberg...

German Welser family. Klein-Venedig became the most extensive initiative in the German colonization of the Americas from 1528 to 1546. The Welsers were...

Spanish Empire, and he was deeply in debt to the Welser family of Augsburg. In lieu of repayment the Welsers accepted a grant of land on the coast of present-day...

World. King Charles I was documented to receive loans from the German Welser family to help finance the Venezuela expedition for gold. With numerous armed...

factor in Madrid for the Welser banking family when they began planning for the colonization of Klein-Venedig. The Welsers appointed him as the first...

sunspots. Welser belonged to a rich family of the old German nobility that had emerged in the city of Augsburg. His uncle Bartholomeus Welser was one of...

Imperial City from 1276 to 1803 and the home of the patrician Fugger and Welser families that dominated European banking in the 16th century. According to Behringer...

was descended from the Welser family. Both his parents' families were from today's Belgium and the Netherlands, and his family retained its Dutch identity...

Prince Bartholomeus Welser (25 June 1484 in Memmingen – 28 March 1561 in Amberg) was a German banker. In 1528 he signed an agreement with Charles V, emperor...