Rothschild family

The Rothschild family (known as The House of Rothschild,^[1] or more simply as the Rothschilds) is a European dynasty of German Jewish origin that established international banking and finance houses from the late 1700s. Five brothers of the Austrian branch of the family were given hereditary baronies of the Habsburg Empire by Emperor Francis II in 1816. The British branch of the family was elevated into the nobility by Queen Victoria.^[2] Although family financial records have not been preserved, at its height in the mid-19th century, the total family worth spread across Europe would, in today's terms, have been at least in the many hundreds of billions ($US), if not in the trillions.