Exhibit 406

Die Fugger in Rom, 1495-1523, mit Studien zur Geschichte des kirchlichen Finanzwesens jener Zeit

Exhibit 406 · Scholarly monograph with document appendix

Die Fugger in Rom, 1495-1523, mit Studien zur Geschichte des kirchlichen Finanzwesens jener Zeit

Archival study of the Fugger bank's papal business. Shows from Vatican and Magdeburg records that the indulgence proposal came through the papal Datary, not from Albert; gives the 10,000-ducat composition, the half-and-half division, the Fugger loan and the Fugger's role as papal remitter; finds that the preachers could not have enriched themselves under the instruction; and judges the venture a poor business for Albert.

Source: Aloys Schulte (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot)
Date: 1904
Grade: Peer-reviewed
Document: https://archive.org/details/diefuggerinrom1400schuuoft
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding REL-1.4: Reported Schulte reports that the commissioners' order of 28 May 1517 gave Jakob Fugger one of the keys to the indulgence chests and directed that, after costs, one half of the contents go to the Fugger as the papal share and the other half to the Fugger in payment of Albert's debt.
Finding REL-1.9: Peer-reviewed Schulte's 1904 archival study concluded that the proposal for the St. Peter's indulgence reached Albert's envoys through the papal Datary and did not originate with Albert, that the procedure of chests opened under a notary with Fugger's key left the preachers no opportunity to enrich themselves, and that the venture was a poor business for Albert.