Editing Fugger family (section)

===Later years===
[[File:German States Fugger 1621 10 Ducats.jpg|thumb|10 ducats (1621) minted as circulating currency by the Fugger family<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tXSrLbIEDBMC |page=496 |title=Standard Catalog of World Gold Coins 1601–present |edition=6 |publisher=Krause |isbn=978-1-4402-0424-1 |editor-last=Cuhaj |editor-first=George S. |year=2009 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>]]

Jakob's successor was his nephew [[Anton Fugger]], son of his elder brother Georg. Anton was born in 1493, married Anna Rehlinger, and died in 1560.<ref name="eb11" />

In 1525, the Fuggers were granted the revenues from the Spanish orders of knighthood together with the profits from mercury and silver mines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindcontagion.org/banking/hb1487.html|title=History of Banking, 1487 – The Fuggers and the Archduke|access-date=3 September 2016|archive-date=15 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915202729/http://www.mindcontagion.org/banking/hb1487.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The formerly rich yield of the Tirolean and Hungarian mines decreased, but Anton established new trade ties with [[Peru]] and [[Chile]] and started mining ventures in [[Sweden]] and [[Norway]]. He was involved in the [[transatlantic slave trade|slave trade from Africa to America]], but was more successful in the spice trade and the importation of Hungarian cattle. Eventually, he was forced to renounce the [[Maestrazgo]] lease after 1542 and to give up the silver mines of [[Guadalcanal, Seville|Guadalcanal]].

In 1530 and 1531 the Fuggers held exclusive rights to trade through the [[strait of Magellan]]. While  European trade with Asia through this route was thought to be possible, the Fuggers never developed this route.<ref name=onetto>{{Cite journal |title=Geopolítica americana a escala global. El estrecho de Magallanes y su condición de “pasaje-mundo” en el siglo XVI |journal=[[Historia (history of the Americas journal)|Historia]] |last=Onetto Pavez |first=Mauricio |url=https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0717-71942020000200521&script=sci_arttext|doi=10.4067/S0717-71942020000200521 |volume=53 |issue=2 |year=2020 |language=Spanish|doi-access=free }}</ref> Decades later the [[Manila galleon]] would inaugurate trade with Asia across the Pacific with no Fugger involvement.<ref name=onetto/>

After hard times under Anton's nephew and successor [[Johann Jakob Fugger|Johann Jakob]], Anton's oldest son, [[Markus Fugger|Markus]], carried on the business successfully, earning some 50,000,000 [[ducat]]s between 1563 and 1641 from the production of mercury at [[Almadén]] alone, but the Fugger company was completely dissolved after the [[Thirty Years' War]] when Leopold Fugger returned the mines in Tyrol to the Habsburgs in 1657.

[[File:St. Anna Augsburg Fugger Grabgelege(2).JPG|thumb|Fugger chapel of 1509 at [[St. Anne's Church, Augsburg]]]]
The burial chapel of the Fuggers in [[St. Anne's Church, Augsburg]] of 1509 is the earliest example of [[Renaissance architecture]] in Germany with its memorial relief tablets in the style of [[Albrecht Dürer|Dürer]] in the choir of the church. It became the burial place of the three brothers [[Jacob Fugger]], [[Georg Fugger]] and [[Ulrich Fugger the Elder]] and their two nephews [[Raymund Fugger]] and Hieronymus Fugger (1499–1538). When St. Anne's Church became Protestant in 1548, the Fugger Chapel remained Catholic because the Fugger Foundation continued to look after it and contributed to the upkeep of the church. Hence. part of the church is denominationally different from the rest, and that the burial place of the Fugger family, who are considered strictly Catholic, is now in a Protestant church.<ref>Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Augsburg: ''[https://www.augsburg-evangelisch.de/500-jahre-fuggerkapelle 500 Jahre Fuggerkapelle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407014203/https://www.augsburg-evangelisch.de/500-jahre-fuggerkapelle |date=7 April 2023 }}'' (500 years Fugger Chapel, 2018).</ref> Adding to the oddity is that Jacob Fugger's loans to Cardinal [[Albert of Brandenburg]] and the [[indulgence]] to repay them were [[Jakob Fugger#Religious views and Reformation|what triggered]] Martin Luther's Reformation.

[[Anselm Maria Fugger von Babenhausen]] (1766–1821) was created [[Princes of the Holy Roman Empire|Prince of the Holy Roman Empire]] in 1803.<ref name=eb11/> The present head of this branch is Prince Hubertus {{lang|de|Fugger von Babenhausen}} who owns Jakob the Rich's former business seat, the [[Fuggerhäuser]] in Augsburg, as well as nearby Wellenburg Castle and the castle at [[Babenhausen, Bavaria]] (purchased by Anton Fugger in 1539 and today housing a museum on the family history); he is also co-owner of a small private bank, the [[Fürst Fugger Privatbank]], in Augsburg.

The branch {{lang|de|Fugger von [[Glött]]}}, descendants of Johann Ernst, a great-grandson of [[Anton Fugger|Anton]], was elevated to the rank of a Bavarian prince in 1913 with [[Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött]]; the branch ended in the male line with his son [[Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött|Joseph-Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött]] (1895–1981), husband of Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern (1895–1975), his estate including the castle at [[Kirchheim in Schwaben]] (acquired in 1551 by Anton Fugger) being inherited by his sister Maria's (1894–1935) son, Albert Count von [[Arco family|Arco-Zinneberg]] (b. 1932), whom he adopted, and who took on the name Fugger von Glött.

The comital branch {{lang|de|Fugger von Kirchberg und zu Weissenhorn}} is today represented by countess Maria-Elisabeth von [[Thun und Hohenstein]], née countess Fugger, heiress of Kirchberg Castle at [[Illerkirchberg]] (bought in 1507 by Jakob Fugger). She also heads the charitable family foundations including the [[Fuggerei]] in Augsburg and [[Welden]] monastery.

In Augsburg, a museum of Fugger and [[Welser]] history (Fugger und Welser Erlebnismuseum) was opened.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fugger-und-welser-museum.byseum.de/de/home|title=Home|access-date=3 September 2016|archive-date=4 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404205624/http://fugger-und-welser-museum.byseum.de/de/home|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/augsburg/Museum-fuer-die-Fugger-und-Welser-id3469031.html|title=Museum für die Fugger und Welser|first=Augsburger|last=Allgemeine|date=26 February 2008 |access-date=3 September 2016|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916134423/http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/augsburg/Museum-fuer-die-Fugger-und-Welser-id3469031.html|url-status=live}}</ref>