Anna Fugger (née Anna Rehlinger von Horgau; 3 November 1505 - 25 March 1548) was a German patrician woman and wife of Anton Fugger (1493–1560), son of Georg Fugger (1453–1506).
Life
She was born in Augsburg to Johann Rehlinger von Horgau (1483–1552) and Anna Dietenheim. Gedenkdaten der Stadt Augsburg: Die Biographie von Anna Rehlinger The Rehlingers were among the most influential patrician families in Augsburg.Strieder, J.: Zur Genesis des modernen Kapitalismus. München/Leipzig; 1935. Europäische Stammtafeln Neue Folge Band 9. Marburg; 1987, Tafel 34. On 25 February or 25 December 1527 von Pölnitz, Götz: Jakob Fugger, Band 2. Tübingen; 1951, S. 273. ISBN 978-3-16-814572-1 she entered into a marriage contract with Fugger, with the wedding occurring on 3 March the same year. This made her the first patrician woman in the Fugger family and the matriarch of the so-called Antonius Line of the family. She died giving birth to her eleventh child aged 43 in Schwarz in Tirol and was buried in Babenhausen, Bavaria.
In art In 1523 her namesake Anna Rehlinger von Haltenberg was shown in Albrecht Dürer's Portrait of a Young Woman. Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur: Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg: Bildnis einer jungen Frau (Anna Rehlinger) – Retrieved 7 January 2012. Anna Rehlinger von Horgau herself is shown in a sledge bearing the Rehlinger coat of arms in the October–December work in the Augsburg Month Paintings series. Deutsches Historisches Museum: Heinrich Dormeier: Kurzweil und Selbstdarstellung – Die „Wirklichkeit" der Augsburger Monatsbilder – Retrieved 7 January 2012.
Descendants She and Fugger had four sons and six daughters: Marx (Markus) (1529–1597) ⚭ countess Sibylla von Eberstein (1531–1589) Anna (1530–1549) Hans (Johannes) (1531–1598) ⚭ Elisabeth Freiin Notthalfft von Weißenstein Catharina (1532–1585) ⚭ Jakob Count of Montfort Jeronimus (1533–1573) Regina (1537–1584) ⚭ Wolfgang Dietrich, Count zu Hardegg Susanna (1539–1588) ⚭ Balthasar Trautson, Freiherr of Matrai Jakob (1542–1598) ⚭ Anna Ilsung von Tratzberg Maria (1543–1583) ⚭ Michael von Eitzing Veronika (1545–1590) ⚭ Gaudenz zu Spaur
Bibliography Martha Schad: Die Frauen des Hauses Fugger. 5. Auflage. Piper, München 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-23818-2
Reinhard Hildebrandt (ed.): Quellen und Regesten zu den Augsburger Handelshäusern Paler und Rehlinger. Stuttgart; 1996. ISBN 978-3-51-506736-2.
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