#Augsburg Fotos II: Luxus Zimtschneckenladen, das Volk steht auf gegen #Merz, Kirche #StMarkus in der #Fuggerei, #Fugger himself.

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Fours years later, in 1577, Meuting travelled to #Spain, again. This time, he had a bunch of smaller commissions to negotiate: debt claims of the descendants of the late Hans Jakob #Fugger, Ferdinand of Bavaria's Spanish pension, the support of king Philip II for the Bavarian bishopric policy, in particular for the election of Duke Ernst of #Bavaria as coadjutor of the bishopric of #Liège, as well as the possibility of the Spanish #Netherlands joining the #Landsberg Confederation.

During his last journey to Spain in 1590, Meuting did not act as an official representative for the duke of Bavaria, but acted as an informant who collected and provided information on the events and developments in #Madrid on a regular basis until he died there in 1591. (5/6)

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Anton Meuting was son of Lukas Meuting, a merchant from #Augsburg who worked for the famous House of #Fugger. His brother-in-law did not only establish the branch of the trading company of the House of #Welser, the second famous Augsburg based merchant and banking family, at the Spanish #court but also provided an excellent and exceptional education abroad for Anton, including the acquisition of language skills in Spanish, the practising of a ‘courtly’ habitus and building up a network of contacts. Thus, Anton Meuting was well connected to the two most important European merchant families of his time.

By the way, did you know that these competing merchant families are now united in their very own museum?

https://www.fugger-und-welser-museum.de

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