The Rothschild family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Unlike most previous court factors, Rothschild managed to bequeath his wealth and established an international banking family through his five sons, who established businesses in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. The family was elevated to noble rank in the Holy Roman Empire and the United Kingdom. The family's documented history starts in 16th century Frankfurt; its name is derived from the family house, Rothschild, built by Isaak Elchanan Bacharach in Frankfurt in 1567.
Rothschild is a name derived from the German zum rothen Schild, meaning "to the red shield", in reference to the houses where these family members lived or had lived. At the time, houses were designated by signs with different symbols or colors, not numbers. The name Rothschild in Yiddish means "red coat". The Rothschild banking family's coat of arms features in the center of its heraldry a red shield.
Sir James Michael Goldsmith was a French-British financier, tycoon and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild was a German-Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. Referred to as a "founding father of international finance", Rothschild was ranked seventh on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen of All Time" in 2005.
Salomon Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild was a Frankfurt-born banker in the Austrian Empire and the founder of the Austrian branch of the prominent Rothschild family.
Adolphe Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt was co-inheritor of the Goldschmidt family's bank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, generally referred to from 1982 as Paribas, was a French investment bank based in Paris. In May 2000, it merged with the Banque Nationale de Paris to form BNP Paribas.
Anselm Salomon von Schwartz Rothschild, Baron Rothschild was an Austrian banker, founder of the Creditanstalt, and a member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family.
Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim was a Belgian banker, businessman and philanthropist.
Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild was a German-Jewish baroness, composer and patron.
The Rothschild family is a European family of German Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century.
Baron Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild was a banker and financier of the House of Rothschild.
Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild was a German banker and art collector. The son of Benedict Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt, he was the co-inheritor of the Goldschmidt family's bank, along with his brother Adolphe Goldschmidt.
The Bischoffsheim family is a family of German-Belgian Jewish descent known for their success in banking. It can be traced back to Raphaël Nathan Bischoffsheim, an army contractor native of Tauberbischofsheim, in the Electorate of Mainz. The family was particularly interwoven with the Goldschmidt family of Frankfurt am Main; the two families intermarried over the generations and jointly managed Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Cie bank, which they eventually merged into Banque de Crédit et de Dépôt des Pays-Bas in 1863.
Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim was a German Jewish international banker and a member of the prominent Bischoffsheim family.
Ferdinand Raphaël Bischoffsheim was a Belgian banker and politician.
Baron Solomon Benedict de Worms was an Austrian aristocrat, plantation owner in Ceylon, and stockbroker in London.
Raphaël-Louis Bischoffsheim was a French banker and a member of the prominent Bischoffsheim family.
The Stern family is a Jewish French banking family originally from Frankfurt. It traces back to Samuel Hayum Stern (1760–1819), who in the 1780s became a wine merchant in Frankfurt.
The Banque Française pour le Commerce et l'Industrie was a significant bank in France, formed in 1901 from two predecessor entities, the Banque Franco-Égyptienne and the Banque Française d'Afrique du Sud. It was purchased in 1922 by the Banque Nationale de Crédit, a predecessor entity of BNP Paribas.
