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In the 19th century members of the English Rothschild family bought and built many country houses in the home counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of the Vale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known as "Rothchildshire". In the 20th century many of these properties were sold off with ...
The Rothschild family originated from Frankfurt. The family rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who established his banking business in the 1760s. [1] Rothschild was able to establish an international banking family through his five sons, [2] who established businesses in Paris, Frankfurt, London, Vienna, and Naples.
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.
Palais Albert Rothschild; Palais Nathaniel Rothschild; Palais Rothschild; Palais Rothschild (Metternichgasse) Palais Rothschild (Prinz-Eugen-Straße) Palais Rothschild (Renngasse) Château de Pregny; Princes Risborough Manor House
Baron Mayer de Rothschild began purchasing land in the area in 1846. [7] Later, other members of the family built houses at Tring in Hertfordshire, Ascott, Aston Clinton, Waddesdon and Halton. [8] The Grand Hall at Mentmore. Aged just five months, Hannah de Rothschild helped lay the foundation stone for the great mansion on 31 December 1851 ...
Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England.Owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation, it is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 463,000 visitors in 2019.
Rothschild (German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]) is a name derived from the German zum rothen Schild (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "to the red shield", in ...
The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty a book by Frederic Morton, telling of the rise of the Rothschild family from humble beginnings in Germany; The Rothschilds, a 1970 musical with a book by Sherman Yellen, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock; The House of Rothschild, a 1934 American film directed by Alfred L. Werker