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Margareta Fugger Von Nondendorf 1592–1652

The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market.
Artist: Lucus Kilain 1579-1637
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Josias II, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen 1636-1669

Count Josias II of Waldeck-Wildungen, German: Josias II. Graf von Waldeck-Wildungen, official titles: Graf zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, Herr zu Tonna, was since 1660 Count of Waldeck-Wildungen . However, he was primarily a military man.
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf 1663-1732

Christoph VII Fürer von Haimendorf auf Wolkersdorf (born July 11, 1663 in Haimendorf; † May 3, 1732 in Nuremberg), imperial councilor, councilor of the imperial city of Nuremberg, was a poet in the transitional period between the Baroque and Enlightenment. He translated, among other things, Works by Pierre Corneille and Torquato Tasso into German, was president of the Pegnesian Order of Flowers, a linguistic and literary society with a bucolic background, from 1709 under the pseudonym Lilidor I (the lily bearer, after the coat of arms of the Fürer von Haimendorf family).
Artist: Ulrich
Date:
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2602

Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur 1558-1602

Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercoeur was born on 9 September 1558 in Nomeny, France, the eldest surviving son of Nicholas, Count of Vaudémont and Jeanne de Savoie-Nemours. In 1575, Mercoeur married Marie de Luxembourg, daughter of Sébastien de Luxembourg, which, together with the title of Duc de Penthièvre, also brought him rights to the crown of the Duchy of Brittany. He was made a knight of the Order of Saint Esprit in 1578.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Karl von Mansfeld 1543-1595

Karl von Mansfeld was a German general during the Cologne War and the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. Von Mansfeld was the son of Count Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, born in present-day Luxembourg, and was educated in France.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Cardinal Infante Don Ferdinand of Austria, 1609-1641.

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; May 1609 or 1610[1] – 9 November 1641) was a Spanish and Portuguese prince (Infante of Spain, Infante of Portugal (until 1640)), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619–41), and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2596

Matthias, 1557-1619 Holy Roman Emperor

Matthias was Holy Roman Emperor from 1612 to 1619, Archduke of Austria from 1608 to 1619, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 to 1618 and King of Bohemia from 1611 to 1617. His personal motto was Concordia lumine maior (“Unity is stronger in the light”)
Size 22 x 25 cms
Price £28.00

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Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg 1673-1742

Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg was Holy Roman Empress, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary, Queen of Bohemia, Archduchess consort of Austria etc. as the spouse of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
Artist: JOHANN MARTIN BERNIGEROTH (1713-67)
Date: c.1735
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £16.00

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