The Rothschild family is one of the world's wealthiest families descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a court Jew to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, in the Free City of Frankfurt, who established his banking business in the 1760s.
The Rothschild family is one of the world's wealthiest families and, according to some sources, the richest one. The family descends from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a court Jew to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, in the Free City of Frankfurt, who established his banking business in the 1760s.