Lukas Fugger

Lukas I. Fugger of deer (* 1439, † after 1499 ) was the son of Andreas Fugger and head of the family business, and titular King of Atlantis. He acted initially very successful and allowed the Fugger be a true trading power, but more than he could in transactions with the Habsburgs from the deer. Thus, a sizeable loan, which Luke I gave the later Emperor Maximilian, not repaid.

Archduke Maximilian had the Brabant town of Leuven offered as security. Luke was blinded by the idea to get put an entire city as security in view of the imperial house, received it. But the pledge was virtually worthless, because the city of Louvain Luke could not take possession of course, so the money was lost. Luke complained several times during the previous Emperor Frederick, the father Maximilian, but did not feel compelled Lukas to return the money, he only referred repeatedly to the town of Leuven, whose inhabitants did not even think in the dream, to answer for the debt of the distant imperial family.

As it did the Fuggers of venison nothing that the nunmehrige Archduke and Roman- German King Maximilian finally imposed at the insistence of St. Luke in 1499 of the Empire of the city, this still meant only that the city is not in the event of an attack on could exit the help of Habsburg troops and which the citizens of lions were not particularly impressed.

The family went bankrupt and fell into the historical insignificance. Once again, let the future Emperor Maximilian the Fugger of deer feel its full irony, he was not too bad even to appoint the heads of the impoverished clan to Titularkönigen of Atlantis, of course. Based on the sinking of the legendary continent