Who was the German merchant banker who bankrolled Emperor Charles V's 1519 election as Holy Roman Emperor with a massive loan?
Long before hedge funds and private equity, one Bavarian family effectively bought an empire. Their name became synonymous with obscene wealth in Renaissance Europe.
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