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The Rothschild family (/ ˈ r ɒ θ (s) tʃ aɪ l d / ROTH(S)-chylde German: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt.The family's documented history starts in 16th-century Frankfurt; its name is derived from the family house, Rothschild, built by Isaak Elchanan Bacharach in Frankfurt in 1567.
The Rothschild family of bankers became the richest family in the mid-19th century. [58] The family's accumulated wealth has been divided among many descendants, only one of which (Benjamin de Rothschild) was officially recognized as a billionaire.
Though dollar for dollar the Rothschild family is considered to be the richest family in modern history by some, due to the dilution of wealth generationally across the entire family, they no ...
Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker, who established his family, the Medici dynasty, as effective rulers of Florence Jakob Fugger, of the Fugger family Bindo Altoviti, famous patron of the arts, papal banker and grandnephew of Pope Innocent VIII Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–90), of the Berenberg-Gossler family Philippine Welser, a member of the patrician Welser banking family, and the wife ...
The Rothschild family has an estimated fortune of about 825 million pounds ($1 billion), according to last year’s Sunday Times Rich List. It reportedly gives away millions of pounds to Jewish ...
His family wealth ranked 22nd on Challenges ' 2019 list of French fortunes, [42] 43rd on Bilan 's 2019 list of Swiss fortunes, [43] and 1349th on Forbes ' 2019 list of world billionaires. [44] He was considered one of the richest members of the Rothschild family. [27] He was the owner of a hôtel particulier on rue de l'Élysée in Paris. [45]
The family was known as "the Rothschilds of the East" due to the immense wealth they accumulated in Asia. [1] The family's businesses in China, India, and Hong Kong especially, were built to capitalise on the opium trade. As more family members gravitated toward London, they became prominent in England and were ennobled by Queen Victoria.
The coat of arms of Nathaniel Rothschild, current head of this branch. The Rothschild banking family of England is the British branch of the Rothschild family.It was founded in 1798 by Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), who first settled in Manchester before moving to London, Kingdom of Great Britain (in present-day United Kingdom).