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In the year 1500, Jakob Fugger loaned the Vatican the money necessary to build the new St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, as well as other buildings within the Vatican.
This sentence conflates different Vatican building projects and dates. The Sistine Chapel had already been built and decorated decades before 1500, and construction of the new St. Peter’s Basilica did not begin until 18 April 1506.
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Official Vatican sources contradict the timeline in this sentence.
- The Vatican's own page for the Sistine Chapel says the chapel was restored between 1477 and 1480, with its first phase of decoration carried out between 1481 and 1483. That means it was already built and functioning well before the year 1500.
- The official page for St. Peter's Basilica says Pope Julius II laid the first stone of the new basilica on 18 April 1506. So it is inaccurate to describe a loan "in the year 1500" as money necessary to build the new St. Peter's Basilica.
Because the sentence specifically says Fugger loaned money in 1500 for both the new St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, it collapses projects separated by decades and assigns the Sistine Chapel to the wrong building phase entirely.
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- Sistine Chapel
Sistine chapel: 1477-1480 ... A first phase of decoration was carried out between 1481 and 1483.
- The Basilica
On 18 April 1506 ... Pope Julius II ... laid the first stone of the new Saint Peter's Basilica.
which ultimately resulted in the unanimous election of Charles Holy Roman Emperor on 28 July 1519.
The election date is wrong by a month. Charles was elected on 28 June 1519, not 28 July 1519.
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The date in this sentence is incorrect.
The Deutsches Historisches Museum's account of the 1519 imperial election states that the electoral contest in Frankfurt ended on 28 June 1519, when Charles V was chosen. Standard historical references likewise place Charles's election on 28 June 1519.
So the article's statement that Charles was elected on 28 July 1519 is a clear dating error.
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- Frankfurt EN
On 28th June 1519, a month-long electoral contest finally ended in the Electoral Chapel ... Charles V presented himself as the Habsburg candidate for the Roman-German imperial throne.
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Emperor Charles V
Charles was elected (28 June, 1519), and everywhere received the title of 'Emperor Elect'.
When St. Anne's Church became Protestant in 1548, the Fugger Chapel remained Catholic because the Fugger Foundation continued to look after it and contributed to the upkeep of the church.
St. Anna in Augsburg did not 'become Protestant' in 1548. It had already become a center of Protestant worship in the 1520s and was officially part of Augsburg’s Reformation by 1534; in 1548 it was reopened for services.
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The date and event are mixed up here.
According to the official history page of St. Anna Augsburg, the first Evangelical communion service there took place on 25 December 1525. The same page says Augsburg's city council officially introduced the Reformation in 1534. It then explains that in 1548 St. Anna was reopened for services because the Protestant population again needed it after the political changes following the Schmalkaldic War.
So 1548 was not the year St. Anne's Church became Protestant; it was already a Protestant site much earlier. The 1548 date refers to its reopening for worship, not its confessional change.
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- St. Anna und die Reformation | St. Anna Augsburg
Am 25. Dezember 1525 fand die erste evangelische Abendmahlsfeier ... in St. Anna statt. ... 1534 führte der Rat der Stadt die Reformation in Augsburg offiziell ein. ... So wurde St. Anna als Gemeindekirche wieder gebraucht und 1548 für Gottesdienste erneut geöffnet.
The descendants of Jakob Fugger have remained Catholic to this day.
Jakob Fugger had no children, so he had no descendants. Reference works describe his marriage as childless and note that his holdings passed to his nephews.
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This statement is literally incorrect because Jakob Fugger had no descendants.
Multiple biographical references state that his marriage to Sibylle Arzt remained childless. The House of Bavarian History says explicitly, "die Ehe blieb kinderlos" (the marriage remained childless). Encyclopedia.com likewise states that "Jacob was childless" and that he left his holdings to his nephews Raymund and Anton.
So while the article may have intended to refer to the wider Fugger family, the specific wording "The descendants of Jakob Fugger" is wrong: Jakob Fugger himself left no direct descendants.
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- Biografien :: Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
seit 1498 verheiratet mit Sibylle Arzt; die Ehe blieb kinderlos.
- Fugger | Encyclopedia.com
Jacob was childless and willed his holdings to his brother Georg's sons, Raymund (d. 1535) and Anton (d. 1560).