Fugger - Banker Who Brought the Habsburgs to Power

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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on economic history, continues with a video on Jakob Fugger - the German banker and businessman who became one of the richest people of the late medieval period by introducing a number of new business practices and tying his fortune to the rising Habsburgs, financing them in becoming the hegemon power in Europe. His loans were crucial for the Habsburg victory at the battle of Pavia in 1525 ( • Battle of Pavia (1525)... ) and the election of Maximilian I. Buy yourself an Emperor?
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals3 жыл бұрын

    If some of the sentences in this video annoy you, you haven't read the theory properly. Capitalism>feodalism.

  • @yousufkhan5787

    @yousufkhan5787

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cheese

  • @williamtheconqueror7807

    @williamtheconqueror7807

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ah, yes: "Feodalism"

  • @user-fl5sv8mr4e

    @user-fl5sv8mr4e

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes Stupidism of that Era 😆

  • @LM-pd6wj

    @LM-pd6wj

    3 жыл бұрын

    Video about the tocharian people please!

  • @Annihilatr_

    @Annihilatr_

    3 жыл бұрын

    More Videos on Alexander the great pls

  • @Tacitus-qd3ev
    @Tacitus-qd3ev3 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Fugger gifted several houses to Nuremberg in his will on the condition that people in need should live there for the smallest possible rent. To this day many students live there for the rent of 1€ per month.

  • @jmitterii2

    @jmitterii2

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was to keep his head out of a noose. Oh, and his superstition satisfied: he was Catholic and demanded that dwellers in these "rent reduced" homes that they must do various prayers to him and his family so that he gets a golden goose and cage in hell... I mean heaven... or do I? Well, he was hoping to hustle a happy spot in heaven. Fucking hustlers... if they're allowed in heaven, we're truly screwed. If such a thing actually exists in the first place.

  • @dillbill7152

    @dillbill7152

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jmitterii2 How do you know what intentions fugger really had? Can you read his mind via clairvoyance? Don't be so negative. It's a good thing dude! 1€ rent a month is incredible.

  • @decapod3736

    @decapod3736

    3 жыл бұрын

    Augsburg, not Nuremberg

  • @klausgerken1905

    @klausgerken1905

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dillbill7152 Jakob Fugger was prety open about the part were he thought, he commited the sin of ursury, and wanted people to pray for his soul to be rescuted.

  • @chrisjohnson7872

    @chrisjohnson7872

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Google User you could say that again.

  • @fenris1168
    @fenris11683 жыл бұрын

    Interesting fact: "Fukar" in Hungarian means "money-grabbing". The origin of the word is traced back to Fugger.

  • @reginald8623

    @reginald8623

    3 жыл бұрын

    deleted in 911...910...909.....

  • @Thomaas551

    @Thomaas551

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@reginald8623 why do you saying the comment is going to be deleted?

  • @reginald8623

    @reginald8623

    3 жыл бұрын

    BTW before this gets nuked the Charlamagne documentary speaks nothing about how King Charles made it illegal for christians to commit usury. Therefore logically only the Amish could be bankers due to being the only other religious group in europe when he decided to make a few families rich. makes me think how many of your type comment get deleted so that it seems like im the crazy one lol.

  • @andrewsuryali8540

    @andrewsuryali8540

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Thomaas551 YT dislikes the F word and its many variations. That said, this comment won't suffer that fate.

  • @Thomaas551

    @Thomaas551

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewsuryali8540 makes more sense than what that other guy was implying

  • @woodchuckcider1
    @woodchuckcider13 жыл бұрын

    Fugger is like a merchant you have in Medieval 2 Total War with experience stats maxed out.

  • @johndanes2294

    @johndanes2294

    3 жыл бұрын

    The one that you hope to God doesn't get assassinated.

  • @leeboy26

    @leeboy26

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or the one enemy merchant that won't move his ass off your silver.

  • @phil0934

    @phil0934

    3 жыл бұрын

    More like 5 maxed out merchants - on the best goods. Fugger was too extraordinary to be just one.

  • @R3GARnator

    @R3GARnator

    3 жыл бұрын

    The one you park on Timbuktu ivory.

  • @TheMcgreary

    @TheMcgreary

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@maximvsdread1610 wait the fort thing works?? I just kind of assumed it doesn't let you

  • @CollinBuckman
    @CollinBuckman3 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: in the first written records regarding the Fugger family (a 1367 tax register) spells the family name as "Fucker"

  • @andredeketeleastutecomplex

    @andredeketeleastutecomplex

    3 жыл бұрын

    totally appropriate

  • @HVLLOWS1999

    @HVLLOWS1999

    3 жыл бұрын

    How did you find that out

  • @maxmustermann369

    @maxmustermann369

    3 жыл бұрын

    theese two pronounciations sound more similiar in german than in english.

  • @ozansimitciler5781

    @ozansimitciler5781

    3 жыл бұрын

    well there was a town in austria called fuc*ing. they recently changed it to fugging i think.

  • @danielblom391

    @danielblom391

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe that's where the town of Fucking got its name in Austria

  • @Oxtocoatl13
    @Oxtocoatl133 жыл бұрын

    Imagine being the literal emperor and still having such a bad credit score that people won't sell you clothes for a wedding.

  • @juliannasreddin5226

    @juliannasreddin5226

    3 жыл бұрын

    When capitalism came in the nobles became poor. Not commoner like poor. A different kind of poor. The kings were still powerful but nobles were replaced by merchants.

  • @Oxtocoatl13

    @Oxtocoatl13

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juliannasreddin5226 eventually, yes. As the economy transformed into a monetary one, the landholdings of the traditional aristocracy became less valuable than the global trade networks of merchants. But I think this instance is rather an example of literally having bad credibility. Monarchs could and often would default on their debts, because hey, what are you gonna do? Go to the king and complain? And because warfare was getting more expensive, kings would often find themselves lacking money. Giving credit to a king was a risky move.

  • @huitzilfromsouftex8774

    @huitzilfromsouftex8774

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Oxtocoatl13 right on , that's how money influenced today's nation's. I mean like, before the oligarchs consistent of king-prince- archdukes-advisors and more nobles overall. Now those same nation's governance dynamic has totally change, they can't do much with out a treasury department and other sectors of govt. They have to do paperwork & follow procedure. So you could just pay off ppl to skip those procedures &trials . .thus corruption is born🤯

  • @tomfu6210

    @tomfu6210

    3 жыл бұрын

    That was perfectly normal throughout European history. Todays image of kings and emperors is closer to fairytales than reality.

  • @genghiskhan5701

    @genghiskhan5701

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juliannasreddin5226 Its for the better

  • @StonerDeLaLuna
    @StonerDeLaLuna3 жыл бұрын

    ..."who married a succesion of wealthy women". I think just that deserves already a video!

  • @bobholly3843

    @bobholly3843

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@justevil100 the idle of trophy husbands everywhere

  • @ozansimitciler5781

    @ozansimitciler5781

    3 жыл бұрын

    maybe hypergamy wasn't a thing back then.

  • @Kurus-pq7xw

    @Kurus-pq7xw

    3 жыл бұрын

    @IRA simp okay zoomer.

  • @Kurus-pq7xw

    @Kurus-pq7xw

    3 жыл бұрын

    @IRA simp something only a true zoomer would say lmfao.

  • @Kurus-pq7xw

    @Kurus-pq7xw

    3 жыл бұрын

    @IRA simp whatever helps ya sleep at night young man 😂

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions3 жыл бұрын

    "Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame" Arthur Schopenhauer

  • @jab5498

    @jab5498

    3 жыл бұрын

    Drinking seawater makes my head feel funny

  • @strange_gaming9190

    @strange_gaming9190

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jab5498 why did u drink sea water

  • @apalahartisebuahnama7684

    @apalahartisebuahnama7684

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@impaugjuldivmax same goes with thirst for wealth, the more you obsessed with it the more inhumane you will be and society wouldn't like that much.

  • @ShidaiTaino

    @ShidaiTaino

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@impaugjuldivmax it’s not about health. It’s about being addicted to making more money

  • @somethinglikethat2176

    @somethinglikethat2176

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@impaugjuldivmax wait. You're a cat. You literally can drink sea water. You're kidneys are that good, human ones on the other hand...

  • @robtoe10
    @robtoe103 жыл бұрын

    "Fugger" is what people called him when they couldn't pay him back lol

  • @giovannidipierfrancescodim3058

    @giovannidipierfrancescodim3058

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kek

  • @fathfez7991

    @fathfez7991

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bring the Spanish Inquisition.

  • @ancientnumbat4631

    @ancientnumbat4631

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fathfez7991 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @weldonwin

    @weldonwin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gavin4848 No, the Mother Fuggers would be the Hapsburgs... or was that Sister Fuggers, I never get that right

  • @podemosurss8316

    @podemosurss8316

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fathfez7991 King Philip II tried that, but failed.

  • @1teneris
    @1teneris3 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Jakob Fugger, Maximilian von Habsburg and Franz von Taxis who created the postal service in the HRE were all born in 1459.

  • @khansahb8

    @khansahb8

    3 жыл бұрын

    Meh, not that fun.

  • @Gematrinator

    @Gematrinator

    3 жыл бұрын

    More like gematria. Nothing fun about it, just planned events by the numbers

  • @Gematrinator

    @Gematrinator

    3 жыл бұрын

    Freemasons

  • @jackmackenzie6721

    @jackmackenzie6721

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good fact mate. Ignore the other folks, they're just eejits.

  • @Robin-sf3gk

    @Robin-sf3gk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Gematrinator freemansons in the 15th century? In this time period there were still some powerful orders of knights. No need for some guilds which want to taste might

  • @Krirnov
    @Krirnov3 жыл бұрын

    Im living in Augsburg and worked in the Fuggerei his social Housing complex. Happy to see a video about him here. I know the Fugger family their Daughter works as a pastry chef and she allways made sweets that we sold at the restaurant.

  • @itzikashemtov6045

    @itzikashemtov6045

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh his line still exists? That's pretty amazing.

  • @benjamindavidovichwaals2899

    @benjamindavidovichwaals2899

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@itzikashemtov6045 not as a nobility i believe, they survived the as a commoner

  • @Krirnov

    @Krirnov

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@benjamindavidovichwaals2899 No theyre still nobility they own a Lot of Historic property around Here and Run the fuggerei and charitys and foundations. And theyre still Fugger von der Lilie. Theres a Second Branch called Fugger vom Reh.

  • @utubrGaming

    @utubrGaming

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Krirnov Are they still excellent with accounting? I can do with a few dozen thousand florins.

  • @mohabatkhanmalak1161

    @mohabatkhanmalak1161

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Krirnov So they still have the old coat of arms and the 'von' in their name?

  • @andreiduduman4220
    @andreiduduman42203 жыл бұрын

    I am a bit dissipointed: not one word about The Fuggerei, which was founded by Jakob in 1521 and is the world's oldest social housing complex still in use.

  • @maxmustermann369

    @maxmustermann369

    3 жыл бұрын

    i thought it to be a bit strange too, but i guess its not related enough to the topic.

  • @andredeketeleastutecomplex

    @andredeketeleastutecomplex

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jerkoff families pretending to be humanists = lol

  • @battleb0ng420

    @battleb0ng420

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Google User are you high

  • @ZiraRisasi

    @ZiraRisasi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andredeketeleastutecomplex how they pretending, they're acting

  • @Apokalypse456

    @Apokalypse456

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ZiraRisasi now are you confused or bewildered?

  • @thewanderingrey8830
    @thewanderingrey88303 жыл бұрын

    Imagine for a fact that the Fugger family is still alive today and one of Jakob's descendant may be well watching this video and gave it a thumbs up.

  • @vishwanathasharma1409

    @vishwanathasharma1409

    3 жыл бұрын

    Plot twist : what if it is you

  • @thewanderingrey8830

    @thewanderingrey8830

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@vishwanathasharma1409 nah I am not related to the Fuggers though I wish I am. They now hold princely titles and largely held on to their riches though they were not as influential as back in the day.

  • @Kai555100

    @Kai555100

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thewanderingrey8830 their wealth today though comes mostly from having a vast estates and renting their Chateaus for weddings or refusing them as Hotels

  • @gracefulcubix4730

    @gracefulcubix4730

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kai555100 refusing or reusing?

  • @Kai555100

    @Kai555100

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gracefulcubix4730 reuising, auto correction struck again it seems or I was just stupid

  • @hans-rudi-der-letzte
    @hans-rudi-der-letzte3 жыл бұрын

    Can you make a video about the Hanseatic League?

  • @Char444

    @Char444

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes please

  • @Emperor_Atlantis

    @Emperor_Atlantis

    3 жыл бұрын

    Make the Hanza great again. Dutchies approve

  • @stephenhansen3672

    @stephenhansen3672

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is an excellent idea

  • @varangianguard4726

    @varangianguard4726

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope so

  • @calebroberts5422

    @calebroberts5422

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or one about Brexit!;)

  • @TOFKAS01
    @TOFKAS013 жыл бұрын

    The great one: Jakob Fugger. Still known as Augsburgs most famous citizen today. And one of the most influential buisinessmen in history. His financial transactions with the Habsburgs influenced worlds history for the next centuries.

  • @johannesmaximilian848
    @johannesmaximilian8483 жыл бұрын

    Glorious to see an episode on this tremendously important and vital chapter of renaissance age commerce and industry particularly in the rise of the house of Habsburg on which the centres of power of the early modern period are based on.

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M.3 жыл бұрын

    13:00 "Bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube!"

  • @oscarscribner7702
    @oscarscribner77023 жыл бұрын

    I always wondered who Jakob fugger was (mostly because of his name)

  • @varana

    @varana

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@janzanssen9660 *head->desk Obviously not.

  • @ottovonbismarck2443

    @ottovonbismarck2443

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Fuggers under the leadership of Jakob were an early international corporation. Banking, weaving industry, mining (gold, silver, copper) weapons industry (mainly cannons); having branches (banking) in every major European city and in the New World. Take the word "industry" with a grain of salt though; this was way before the industrial age. The Fugger Empire span across the globe. Through their connection to the house Habsburg/Karl V. - who controlled the first empire where the sun never set - they were at some point made governors of Venezuela as a form of debt repayments (I'm not 100% sure about this, look it up yourself, if you wish). Of course they had their hands in any military conflict and through their branches they were able to finance every side. The bank always wins ... (Rothschild did the same in the Napoleonic era). Mostly unknown, Jakob Fugger spent a lot of money (well, not for him) on poor people, like widows, orphans and old people. He invented social housing where these poor people could live for free as long as they were good catholics AND they were to include him in their prayers. The man was terrified of not getting into heaven. Btw, some of these houses are still standing in Augsburg, if I'm correct. In short terms, the man was one of the most influential people of his time, though almost forgotten as it seems. Generally, the 15th and 16th century don't get the attention they deserve.

  • @nielsatoyab6065

    @nielsatoyab6065

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just say it out loud. - Rotschild.

  • @varana

    @varana

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@janzanssen9660 He was not? Jakob is a very common Christian name, because of Jesus' brother. (Who was named after the original one, obviously.) Just like not everyone named James (the English version of Jacob) is Jewish.

  • @nonnayerbusiness7704

    @nonnayerbusiness7704

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@janzanssen9660 If you watched the video, you would see him described as a "staunch catholic" whose mother put him in a seminary at a young age to train to be a priest. So obviously not Jewish.

  • @examensexamen
    @examensexamen3 жыл бұрын

    Please do one on Cosimo de Medici’s rise as a banker as well, or the Medici family’s banking era

  • @ajones3038

    @ajones3038

    2 жыл бұрын

    this

  • @mattc9998
    @mattc99982 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing how many decisions made by rulers there are explained by money, when, in wishy-washy documentaries and school history classes, they were always explained as being due to faith, personality or random actions.

  • @BunkerFox
    @BunkerFox3 жыл бұрын

    I really like your episodes that don't focus on war

  • @erictko85

    @erictko85

    3 жыл бұрын

    I second this

  • @b3ygghsas
    @b3ygghsas3 жыл бұрын

    You know, you guys should make a punic wars series, we have lots of documentaries from the 2nd punic war but barely know what happened in the 1st and 3rd with details like you guys always do with your documentaries

  • @b3ygghsas

    @b3ygghsas

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Beauty Queen I know history marche but I prefer kings and generals

  • @Sebastian_Gecko

    @Sebastian_Gecko

    3 жыл бұрын

    Invicta got you covored, at least for the first punic war :)

  • @illerac84

    @illerac84

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Sebastian_Gecko Ha! Sure enough I post the link to Invicta just before I see your commeint!

  • @PauloGarcia-sp5ws

    @PauloGarcia-sp5ws

    3 жыл бұрын

    I mean the 3rd was just Romte stomping Carthage thou, I don't feel like there would be much to talk about there.

  • @illerac84

    @illerac84

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PauloGarcia-sp5ws The more interesting story is Rome's intentional provocation to make Carthage violate the terms.

  • @MichaelSmith-ij2ut
    @MichaelSmith-ij2ut3 жыл бұрын

    1:13 The Habsburgs so nice, they sponsored them twice

  • @Bardockfan150

    @Bardockfan150

    3 жыл бұрын

    See, we've got to make sure to cover both the Habsburgs and the Hapsburgs.

  • @dumolollen7676
    @dumolollen76763 жыл бұрын

    Love this episode I would look forward videos on Medici, Rothschild, Warburg n Baring families

  • @laistvan2

    @laistvan2

    3 жыл бұрын

    And Gritti's in Venice and Constantinapoly(Ottoman times).

  • @mrsullied

    @mrsullied

    2 жыл бұрын

    Rothschild, Warburg, Fugger and others still being in business is nuts.

  • @fireem
    @fireem3 жыл бұрын

    I remember Fugger from colonization game way back. You could pick him as a founding father. He would make all boycotted goods tradeable again without having to pay fines for them.

  • @vladvah77

    @vladvah77

    3 жыл бұрын

    What game?

  • @fireem

    @fireem

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@vladvah77 Sid Meiers colonization ,the first one. This was a dos game. I think you can find it free on the net or on steam.

  • @theoutlook55
    @theoutlook553 жыл бұрын

    Extraordinary. Fascinating topic, I'm so glad that you chose to discuss his life despite your title being Kings and Generals, those pesky Bankers assuredly make a huge impact. You should do a video on the Medici, or perhaps a three-part series on the Medici given how they were in power for so long in different ways.

  • @RoboticDragon
    @RoboticDragon3 жыл бұрын

    You guys have shared some pretty unique things about the past I have never even come close to hearing about. I am so glad I back this channel, and I always look forward to more of your videos.

  • @thedirty530
    @thedirty5303 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate these type of stories so much... This is one of those moments in time that is almost incomplete just by learning each individual countries history... The interconnection of this man's contributions is more valuable than anyone of their leaders at the time. Amazing Video!!!

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea3 жыл бұрын

    I learned about him in the German made series about a young Maximilian, simply titled after the Hapsberg Emperor's name. It mainly covered his marriage to Mary of Austria and struggle to hold onto her duchy of Burgundy. He agreed to finance Maximilian's misadventures, who put his family's silver mines in Austria as collateral for the loan. It was an interesting from a very good historical drama.

  • @delta1404

    @delta1404

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've heard of the show. Is it worth watching?

  • @barbiquearea

    @barbiquearea

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@delta1404 Yes the show was really good. KZreadr Lili1127 was clips of the show on her channel along with other historical dramas. I was lucky enough to get the series with subtitles because a friend of mine had downloaded them with subs.

  • @boomerix

    @boomerix

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sadly their depiction of King Matthias was pretty bad. He was a relatively young, cultured Renaissance man. In the series he was turned into an old barbarian villain.

  • @illyrian9976
    @illyrian99763 жыл бұрын

    Fugger was responsible for the first social housing project in the world, the so called "Fuggerei" in Augsburg. It still exists today and can be visited by tourists (even though people still live there).

  • @mediocreman6323
    @mediocreman63233 жыл бұрын

    What I personally find especially intriguing about Jakob Fugger is his picture. In your mind, remove the hat, change the clothing for a modern suit, and you have a modern CEO with all the fervor and methods of a modern CEO. I think if you put him into our time, maybe gave him a year or two to make himself familiar with current technology, I think the man would do just fine even now.

  • @furinkazan9066

    @furinkazan9066

    2 жыл бұрын

    They are doing fine until today, you mean.

  • @mediocreman6323

    @mediocreman6323

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@furinkazan9066 - I mean him, Jakob Fugger, as a person. He had keen instincts was a highly proficient businessman, he, Jakob Fugger, would easily be a top dog even today. That his family does well half a millenium (!) later does in no way contradict that.

  • @furinkazan9066

    @furinkazan9066

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mediocreman6323 I mean bankers in general. The big ones. Of course his family would be doing well, they're rich.

  • @chrisedrev9519
    @chrisedrev95193 жыл бұрын

    This was an amazing production guys, thank you so much. Great pleasure in watching it.

  • @noblesavage2261
    @noblesavage22612 жыл бұрын

    This was a great switch! I recently watched the TV Period Piece 'Maximilian" and this really shed some light on that era! Thank you K&G.

  • @Itachi951000
    @Itachi9510003 жыл бұрын

    This channel truly is a goldmine. Thanks for everything you guys do!

  • @argiberico

    @argiberico

    2 жыл бұрын

    Florian from Florence who would only trade in florints.

  • @reimaginedpictures
    @reimaginedpictures3 жыл бұрын

    16:05 That shadow just perfectly sits on Fugger’s hat

  • @KH-fz1dp
    @KH-fz1dp3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for covering this guy! A while ago I randomly came across a book on him and thought it very interesting. As I learned more about history in the area I wanted to revisit this character a couple times The problem was I kept thinking his name was Fucher, and it wasn't bringing up any results haha. Now I know and I can go back to check out the book if I want to. Thanks again!

  • @matrixmash9907
    @matrixmash99073 жыл бұрын

    I love when you guys do videos on historical characters. Always well done and excellent. You guys should do others on people like this, like Carnegie himself or Stanford and Oils' Rockefeller. Their contributions fundamentally changed the way the American economy worked at the time and arguably led to the rise of the global American Federation.

  • @AvatarMarxon90
    @AvatarMarxon90 Жыл бұрын

    Most interestingly is that his descendants are still in business (I saw a documentary regarding German aristocratic families - and his descendant came up as the head of a private investment bank). Fabulous video. Keep up the good work.

  • @dimitribagatelas1714
    @dimitribagatelas17143 жыл бұрын

    Love this video, please do more videos on successful merchants and bankers through history!

  • @amac3145
    @amac31453 жыл бұрын

    Amazing work! You guys continously outdo yourselves. Thank you!

  • @ironwolf2244
    @ironwolf22443 жыл бұрын

    Historical economics is always a fascinating topic. Much appreciated!

  • @nApucco
    @nApucco3 жыл бұрын

    Kings and Generals and Commoners.

  • @highroller6244

    @highroller6244

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kings and Generals and Commoners. 😀 I love that!

  • @MCMLXXXVICCXII
    @MCMLXXXVICCXII3 жыл бұрын

    Great team work guys. Thanks for the effort you put up.

  • @arthegor
    @arthegor3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this wonderful documentary on my Birthday this is a wonderful gift of knowledge.

  • @jeffm3283
    @jeffm32833 жыл бұрын

    Great job on the art this episode

  • @utkarshanand9706

    @utkarshanand9706

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank Lala Qasim.

  • @Krirnov
    @Krirnov3 жыл бұрын

    Love the backgrounds. On minute 20 that background looks a lot like the Augsburg Cathedral.

  • @jasonsteckey8884
    @jasonsteckey88843 жыл бұрын

    I love this video! We need more about people who changed the world without a single sword stroke or command in battle. This is a fascinating piece of history.

  • @shiammm
    @shiammm3 жыл бұрын

    Amazing content as always, this video is definitely one my favorites

  • @60437GANGSTER
    @60437GANGSTER3 жыл бұрын

    About his wealth: I don't understand how you arrive at the figure of 130 million euros (in today's money). Every article I find puts his fortune at 300-400 billion US dollars (in today's money). That would be something between 250-330 billion euros (in today's money).

  • @Aschraffff

    @Aschraffff

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Kelvin Higgs How do you things these estimates work? It's usually either by comparing it to gdp, or through inflation. In any case €130m is a joke

  • @laistvan2

    @laistvan2

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think there is an absolute value and relative value. Because nowadays much more money(gold, silver, people, etc) exist than that time absolute value would be only 300 million $, but if we compare relatively in our world that money should be billions

  • @rzuid7350

    @rzuid7350

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol 130m but paying for wars and elections xD seems like a spellingmistake

  • @ramenslushie

    @ramenslushie

    3 жыл бұрын

    In truth it's impossible to say just how much he would have been worth in today's money because his wealth didn't exist in today's money or in today's economy, it existed in a different era. All you can really say is how rich he was relative to his peers.

  • @bartelvandervelden9894

    @bartelvandervelden9894

    3 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps his net worth should be calculated on the basis of the ventures he owned/operated and the worth of those ventures right now, of which you then correct for the worth of similar ventures back then. There are probably sources that allow historians to do this kind of calculations quite well (I'm quite sure)

  • @BazzBrother
    @BazzBrother3 жыл бұрын

    I find these bits of history much more interesting than wars and battles

  • @chadiabdelsater4952
    @chadiabdelsater49523 жыл бұрын

    Great information 👍🏻 Good Work, a big Thanks for your efforts which bring us extremely important history documentaries.

  • @chrissimiyu5484
    @chrissimiyu54843 жыл бұрын

    Great video guys. Can you do one on the history of usury and its effects?

  • @ishxyzaak

    @ishxyzaak

    3 жыл бұрын

    You must be Muslim or a very good christian

  • @chrissimiyu5484

    @chrissimiyu5484

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ishxyzaak Christian, actually

  • @bakr6405

    @bakr6405

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@esotericretard6530 lmao

  • @ishxyzaak

    @ishxyzaak

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@donaldseigel4101 the idea of food money sounds like typical investment. If the food doesn't grow, there should be no interest correct? Otherwise, that's unfair. Anyway second, Abraham was not a jew nor a Christian, Judaism started with Moses and the laws that were given to him.

  • @ishxyzaak

    @ishxyzaak

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@donaldseigel4101 isn't a jew someone who follows the laws of the torah? how can abraham be a jew when those laws were not yet revealed?

  • @hangoluanbisuk4299
    @hangoluanbisuk42993 жыл бұрын

    That's why the finale of Game of Thrones need an explanation about Cersei's loan from Iron Bank 😀

  • @Jayako12
    @Jayako123 жыл бұрын

    17:00 you forgot to update the map since Granada and Navarra had already been integrated into Castile by the grandparents of Charles V, the Catholic Kings (who I must say, deserve more than a video on them). Charles V himself spent his honeymoon in the Alhambra.

  • @hoboronin
    @hoboronin3 жыл бұрын

    Your videos always a pleasure.. I think you have a great voice for narration a genuine passion for history and a brilliant mind

  • @octodaddy4494
    @octodaddy44943 жыл бұрын

    Kings and Generals we need a part 2 of the Germanic people as you said in the first video back in October last year. That video got 1M views.

  • @ulfeliasson5413
    @ulfeliasson54133 жыл бұрын

    One of those people I have never heard of before. Thanks!! Interesting.

  • @gregorylittle1461
    @gregorylittle14613 жыл бұрын

    Great presentation. It sounded as if he was greedy and, considering the goal of his life was to make money, I can understand that. But if you come to Augsburg, you can visit the "Fuggerei," which is the second oldest social housing complex in Europe and founded by Jakob Fugger. To this day, if you are Catholic, you live in a small but comfortable apartment for .88 euro cents A YEAR, and a daily prayer for the souls of the Fugger family. The presentation informed me a lot about a man I have heard about often during my 22 years here in Augsburg. He is buried in Saint Anna's Lutheran church in a very modest crypt in an area of the church which, by agreement, has remained Catholic. Thanks again for yet another great Kings and Generals documentary!

  • @jonny-b4954
    @jonny-b49542 жыл бұрын

    You've got to admire a guy taking advantage of a situation and rolling the dice, putting everything they're worth into hoping to strike it BIG time.

  • @stefanlinzmaier8702
    @stefanlinzmaier87023 жыл бұрын

    Very nice video! The German Peasants War would be a very good video series that is almost not covered in documentaries. In my eyes it was the most significant revolution of lower class citizens before the french revolution in Europe.

  • @reginald8623

    @reginald8623

    3 жыл бұрын

    what about the peasant's crusade?

  • @Oxtocoatl13

    @Oxtocoatl13

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@reginald8623 i don't know if you can call the peasant's crusade a revolution, as they were marching not against the ruling class but a foreign enemy.

  • @martinn.6082

    @martinn.6082

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, definitely very interesting and tragic.

  • @ZoobieDoodie
    @ZoobieDoodie3 жыл бұрын

    Another masterclass from K&G

  • @okramronan
    @okramronan2 жыл бұрын

    This channel never stops to amaze me. Great work sir..

  • @yolakin8210
    @yolakin82103 жыл бұрын

    Great video!!! This shows the real power behind the thrown.

  • @TriumvirSajaki
    @TriumvirSajaki3 жыл бұрын

    Patrick Wyman did a good episode (an hour long if I remember) on Jakob Fugger on his Tides of History podcast.

  • @lhotakfpv4113
    @lhotakfpv41133 жыл бұрын

    Me:"Gets an Ad" "ugh" Also me:"He deserves it tho"

  • @mario_1683
    @mario_16833 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are so interesting. You are the best history channel in youtube. Well done.

  • @christophergreenfield2785
    @christophergreenfield27853 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this video a lot thank you very much again great video keep up the great work you just made my weekend come early

  • @denniscleary7580
    @denniscleary75803 жыл бұрын

    Just got done finishing your Celtic documentary and loved it guys

  • @ahmedshaharyarejaz9886
    @ahmedshaharyarejaz98863 жыл бұрын

    Financial and Political Strategists should also have series made about them like those of Military strategists.

  • @Durandalite
    @Durandalite3 жыл бұрын

    Btw if you're willing to do a video on Fugger I'd recommend tackling in general the Price Revolution, as it provides context for a lot of events in early modern Europe.

  • @induspherix
    @induspherix3 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating topic. Thank you for this insightful presentation. It is my highest hope to learn a great deal more about the larger topic of how renaissance and late medieval economic systems operated for a more complete understanding of the pre-industrial evolution for political economy, soft power, and the uncommonly explored consequences, severity, and serendipity of specific mutations in the course of these dynamic transformations. This theme of political-economic transformations is arguably one of the most tremendous considerations in understanding how our lives are shaped today along with how they will change tomorrow. It strikes me as though the early origins of modern free-market and globalized productivity relationships is a topic that is left conspicuously unexamined, likely reinforced by popular assumptions and uninformed over-simplifications of the chains of events that led to the present. To me, this has left a lot of unanswered questions and mysteries about what particular events really shaped the prevailing patterns and how those events really affected the changing fortunes in all social castes as well as the effects within the scope of hegemony, nascent nationalism, and the power balances between states.

  • @jimmyjohnjuan
    @jimmyjohnjuan3 жыл бұрын

    I want to here more about this princess eloping. What happened? I need to know. You can't add lose end like that.

  • @deteon1418
    @deteon14183 жыл бұрын

    Great video! These topics are very interesting!

  • @lotsofspoons
    @lotsofspoons3 жыл бұрын

    That total war music towards the end triggered flashbacks of sleepless nights ... One more turn!

  • @olivernell3230
    @olivernell323026 күн бұрын

    As always, great work guys!

  • @wisp6826
    @wisp68263 жыл бұрын

    Those graphics are so good, I feel guilty for listening to this as a podcast.

  • @varangianguard4726
    @varangianguard47263 жыл бұрын

    I want to see more video's about trade and traders

  • @lilblondeboy4142
    @lilblondeboy41423 жыл бұрын

    Tysm I was waiting for a Jacob fugger video

  • @johnnyc613
    @johnnyc6133 жыл бұрын

    Great story!! It’s always cool to hear the people behind the scenes.... can you do more like this on men who in history made their riches by keen and savy moves...!?!?

  • @Zantides
    @Zantides3 жыл бұрын

    Nice video, i enjoy stories like this.

  • @gajxo
    @gajxo3 жыл бұрын

    What's the source for his wealth being 130 million? Wikipedia says it was 400 billion - 3000x more. Those are some wildly different numbers.

  • @kesler171717
    @kesler1717173 жыл бұрын

    Great video thank you kings and generals!

  • @Daruliable
    @Daruliable3 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel, I've learned a lot cause' of them. thanks K&G's

  • @SavageDragon999
    @SavageDragon9993 жыл бұрын

    I think the estimated networth of Fugger in this video is wrong. Fugger was worth much, much more than 130 million USD in today's dollars. He bought the 3 brothers and other jewelries from Basel for 40,000 florins, which, at that time, was enough to pay 33,000 common laborers for a year. Assuming a German laborer today makes 30,000 USD a year, that 40,000 florins would be the equivalent of 1.2 billion USD. So his 2 million fl networth is more like the equivalence of 60 billion USD. Also if you google 'Jakob Fugger networth', the results will vary anywhere between 120 billion to 400 to 500 billion USD. The 130 'million' USD is laughably low for someone of Fugger's caliber. He was the Emperor Maker, the one that moved nations, the one before whom nations swayed.

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion3 жыл бұрын

    Should it be said that this banker, Jakob Fugger, indirectly created the situation that allow Sultan Suleiman to finally be able to annex Hungary as part of the Ottoman Empire? P.S: Thank you for mentioning Mansa Musa. Hope that the team of this channel will do a video about him and the Mali Empire one day.

  • @Xfire209

    @Xfire209

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Hungarians created that situation just fine without any outside help. Chiefly their nobility

  • @maxmustermann369

    @maxmustermann369

    3 жыл бұрын

    i dont think so, a minor factor at most. its a complex topic, but just look at their empires. on the one hand, you have the ottomans, with juicy provinces and one of the best military in the world at the time. on the other you got poor hungary (at least compared to the ottomans), with no real help besides austria. i think they fought valiantly considering the time it took the ottomans, but i guess the peoples of the balkaan are troublesome foes taking the struggles against wallachia, serbia, albania etc. into account too.

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking783 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating! I hope he felt like it was worth it at the end

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam84382 күн бұрын

    This video whetted my appetite to see more analysis of economic moments viewed as a struggle for power

  • @shivanandapatra5555
    @shivanandapatra55553 жыл бұрын

    Sir, Good Day To You! This is a request to you, in order to make a documentary of Knightnood of The Crusades to Formation of Switzerland & Portugal until the Emergence of the Swiss Banks.

  • @Maxl1409
    @Maxl14093 жыл бұрын

    Another great video from KaG! Greetings from "Fuggerstadt" Augsburg!

  • @inconfusion6611
    @inconfusion66112 жыл бұрын

    I used to live in Augsburg and once saw one of the fuggers at a music event in a church years ago… It’s so interesting that they are still around…

  • @thefulanichad
    @thefulanichad3 жыл бұрын

    👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 great work as usual KG

  • @PYRESATVARANASI
    @PYRESATVARANASI3 жыл бұрын

    I love the animation, great work! The music was fantastic, I recognize a couple of tracks from Medieval II: Total War 😎.

  • @Char444

    @Char444

    3 жыл бұрын

    how did you comment 8 hours ago when the video itself is 11 minutes ago uploader

  • @carbonmonoxide8481

    @carbonmonoxide8481

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Char444 😱😱

  • @AALO101
    @AALO1013 жыл бұрын

    God, I love this channel.

  • @tomflynn8265
    @tomflynn82653 жыл бұрын

    1:16 You guys said "The Hapsburgs" twice in quick succession in your commercial. I had to rewind it to be sure as I thought I was losing it at first, but ya'll DID go parrot on your Magellan read.

  • @Jalenlane93
    @Jalenlane933 жыл бұрын

    This guy should definitely have a series or movie.

  • @Manuel-gu9ls
    @Manuel-gu9ls3 жыл бұрын

    Can you a history of the known Italian families who influenced Italy 🇮🇹

  • @abracadabrablah

    @abracadabrablah

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tony Soprano..

  • @janzanssen9660

    @janzanssen9660

    3 жыл бұрын

    gizulfi medici

  • @Manuel-gu9ls

    @Manuel-gu9ls

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@janzanssen9660 not just them but also it’s original Italian martial arts particularly its swordsmanship like what they done to Swiss army

  • @bakr6405
    @bakr64053 жыл бұрын

    please do some Egyptian history, Mohamed Ali Pasha, Wahhabi war, Ottoman Egyptian wars, 7th crusade, 5th crusade, Fatimid Siljuk wars, Urabi revolt, Battle of Al Alamin, Fatimid Caliphate, Mamluks, Ayyubids

  • @BaltimoresBerzerker
    @BaltimoresBerzerker3 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting! Could you please do more videos on the economies of various civilizations from various time period please!?!

  • @gesuntight
    @gesuntight3 жыл бұрын

    The drawing in the last part of the video is great, I can recognize the place actually! did you have a reference for it?

  • @TheWepwawet
    @TheWepwawet3 жыл бұрын

    Love it... i love the merchant prince era and history