Welser

Welser, Philippine, (Augsburg, 1527-80, Schloß Ambras, Innsbruck), the beautiful daughter of the Augsburg patrician Bartholomäus Welser (see Welser), married in 1557 the Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol. Her father-in-law, the Emperor Ferdinand I, denied rights of succession to her children, who became Margraves of Burgau. Her story has been treated in a play by Emanuel Schikaneder (Philippine Welser, die schöne Herzogin von Tirol, 1792) and in a novel by Georg Hesekiel (Lux et umbra, 1861), as well as by other writers.

This article is about the merchant family of Augsburg. For other uses of the term, see Welser (disambiguation).

Welser is the surname of an important German banking and merchant family, originally from Augsburg. Along with the Fugger family, the Welser family controlled various sectors of the European economy, and accumulated enormous wealth through trade and the German colonization of the Americas.

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