Otto Heinrich Fugger, Graf von Kirchberg

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About Otto Heinrich Fugger, Graf von Kirchberg

Otto Heinrich Fugger, Count of Kirchberg (1592–1644) was promoted to be a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1628. He was the son of Christoffe Fugger, deceased 1615, the grandson of Johann Fugger, deceased 1598, the great grandson of very wealthy Augsburg city International businessman and banker Anton Fugger (1493–1560). The 16th century Fugger's, descendents of a German businessmen family tracked down to the 14th century, were the Imperial bankers with King Charles I of Imperial Spain, also Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V (1500–1558), and his brother, also Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand I of Habsburg (1503–1564), king of Hungary and Bohemia from 1526, emperor from 1556 by abdication of his brother Charles.

He was one of the most active of the Catholic Bavarian generals during the Thirty Years War, and acted as governor of Augsburg, afterwards a member of a big network of cities and places related to the Holy Roman Empire, led by Austria, where his rule aroused much discontent. The Kirchheim branch of the family died out in 1672. There are however, even today, other branches of the Fugger family in Europe and the United States.

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Otto Heinrich Fugger, Graf von Kirchberg's Timeline

1592
January 12, 1592
Augsburg, Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany
1619
June 30, 1619
1620
December 7, 1620
1622
January 9, 1622
1623
June 9, 1623
1624
September 16, 1624
1626
May 3, 1626
1627
August 6, 1627