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Fugger family
The Fugger family was a merchant and banking dynasty of Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire. Grown wealthy from textiles, mining and finance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they lent heavily to the Habsburgs, notably financing Charles V's election as emperor in 1519.
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