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'Jakob Fugger 1459-1525'.1934. Jakob Fugger of the Lily (1459-1525), also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or sometimes Jakob II, was a major merchant, mining entrepreneur and banker of Europe. He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in May 1511 and created Imperial Count of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn in 1514. From "Die Großen der Weltgeschichte". [Eckstein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]