Johann Fugger the Elder

Johann Fugger the Elder or Hans Fugger (1 June 1583 - 28 April 1633, Telfs) was a German businessman, landowner and noble of the Fugger family.^[1][2] He was Lord of Schloss Babenhausen and Boos.

Johann Fugger the Elder in Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum imagines by Dominicus Custos

His wife Maria von Hohenzollern

He was one of the sons of Jakob III. Fugger and his wife Anna Ilsung.^[3] After his father's death in 1598, he managed the lordships of Babenhausen and Boos among others. The Fugger lordships were divided up in 1620 and exchanged among the family shortly afterwards. Johann became lord of Boos whilst his brother Maximilian (1587–1629) became lord of Babenhausen, Johann Herr zu Boos.^[4]

Marriage and issue

In 1605, he married Marie Eleonore, Countess of Hohenzollern (1586-1668), daughter of Charles II, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen by his first wife. Johann and Marie Eleonore had the following children:

• Jakob, count Fugger (1606–1632)
• Maria Eleonore, freiin Fugger (1607–1607)
• Maria Anna, countess Fugger (1608–1649)
• Maria Katharina, countess Fugger (1609–1685)
• Maria Euphrosina, countess Fugger, nun at the Kloster Holzen (1610–1630)
• Maria Jakobäa, countess Fugger, prioress at the Katharinenkloster Augsburg (ca. 1611–1693)
• Maria Sibylla, countess Fugger, nun at the Katharinenkloster Augsburg (1612–1632)
• Johann Franz, count Fugger, Herr zu Babenhausen (1613–1668)
• Maria Margareta, countess Fugger, nun in Holzen then at Inzigkofen (1614–1656)
• Karl, freiherr Fugger (1615–1615)
• Maria Maximilliana, countess Fugger, sub-prioress at Holzen (1616–1687)
• Johann Graf Fugger, lord of Boos, Heimertingen, Pless and Leder (1618–1663)

References

1. (in German) Götz von Pölnitz: Die Fugger. 6. Auflage. Mohr, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147013-3.
2. Häberlein, Mark (2012). The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursuing Wealth and Honor in Renaissance Germany. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-3244-6.
3. (in German) Heinz Wember: The Fugger Line
4. (in German) Franz Herre: Die Fugger in ihrer Zeit. 12. Auflage. Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2005, ISBN 3-89639-490-8.