Court Jew - Examples of Court Jews

Examples of Court Jews

  • Don Isaac Abrabanel (1437–1508), financier for Portuguese and Spanish courts
  • Abraham Zacuto (c. 1450 – c. 1510)
  • Aron Beer of Frankfurt
  • Aaron of Lincoln (1125–1186), believed to be the wealthiest man of 12th century England, banker to Henry II of England
  • Sir Edward Brampton (c. 1440–1508), a godson of King Edward IV, he was made the Governor of Guernsey
  • Baron Peter Shafirov (1670–1739), vice-chancellor of Russia, under Peter the Great
  • Moises Isaac of Bamberg
  • Josce of Gloucester, the Jewish financier who funded Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke's conquest of Ireland in the 11th century.
  • Josel of Rosheim; de (1476–1554)
  • Mordecai Meisel (Miška Marek Meisel) (1528–1601)
  • Jacob Bassevi von Treuenberg (a noble) (1580–1634)
  • Chajim Fürst, (1592–1653), court agent in Hamburg, elder of the Jewish community in Hamburg, richest Jew in Hamburg.
  • Daniel Itzig (1723–1799), a court Jew of Frederick II the Great and Frederick William II of Prussia.
  • Bernhard von Eskeles (1753–1839), a court Jew of Joseph II and Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire and I of Austria
  • Moses and Rachel Fishel of Krakow, court Jews during the reign of John I Albert of Poland; Rachel was lady-in-waiting of the Queen Mother Elizabeth
  • Moses Israel Fürst, (1617–1692), court agent in Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Leffmann Behrends (Liepmann Cohen) of Hanover (c. 1630–1714)
  • Samuel Oppenheimer (1635–1703), military supplier for the Holy Roman Emperor.
  • Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724), Austrian financier, chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt
  • Issachar Berend Lehmann; de (1661–1730)
  • Joseph Suss Oppenheimer (1698–1738), financier for Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
  • Loew Sinzheim a.k.a. Löb Sinzheim (? – 1744?), court purveyor of Mainz
  • Raphael Kaulla and "Madame Kaulla"
  • Joachim Edler von Popper (1720–1795), court agent and lessee of the tobacco monopoly from the Habsburgs. Second Austrian Jew to be ennobled without needing to be converted (1790).
  • Israel Edler von Hönigsberg, (1724–1789), court agent and lessee of the tobacco monopoly from the Habsburgs. "Bankaldirektor" for Joseph II. First Austrian Jew to be ennobled without converting to Christianity (1789).
  • Israel Jacobson (1768–1828), philanthropist and reformer, court agent of Brunswick.
  • Wolf Breidenbach (1751–1829), factor to the Elector of Hesse, father of Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach

In fiction, Isaac the Jew in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe serves this purpose to Prince John and other nobles.

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