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Anton Fugger (1493-1560) "During the Diet held by Charles V at Augsburg, in 1530, the Emperor lived in Antonius Fugger's splendid house on the Weinmarkt. On this occasion he raised both brothers to the rank of counts and invested them in full sovereignty with the still mortgaged properties of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn; and a letter under the Imperial seal conferred on them the rights of princes. In 1535 they received the right of coining money. Antonius, at his death (1560), left 6,000,000 gold crowns in ready money, besides jewels and possessions in all parts of Europe, Asia, and America." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. IX, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 333.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 211. (Charles V in the house of Anton Fugger, after the painting by Charles Becker.)
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