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Rothschild family

Every case in the archive that involves the Rothschild family, best-known first.

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The cases

Under each headline: who in the family is in the case. Each card opens the full cited case.

Cases
5
Years
1812 to 2015
Countries
Germany, United Kingdom, France, Jamaica
Subjects
European families, Jewish law and estates, Great houses
Updated
30 October 2026
AI illustration: Furniture and paintings laid out for auction inside Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, 19771974 · Mentmore Towers, BuckinghamshireThe government refused Mentmore for £2 million, and Sotheby's sold its contents for more than £6 million in 1977Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, grandson of Baron Mayer de Rothschild, who built Mentmore, died there in 1974; his heirs sold its contents.Mentmore Towers was built in the 1850s for Baron Mayer de Rothschild and passed to the Earls of Rosebery by marriage. Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, bred the Derby winner Blue Peter at its stud.Internet Archive and 8 moreMayer Amschel Rothschild: Mayer Amschel Rothschild1812 · Frankfurt am MainMayer Amschel Rothschild's 1812 will shut his daughters and sons-in-law out of the bank; the Frankfurt house closed in 1901 for lack of a male heirMayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the bank, willed the business to his five sons and barred his five daughters and their husbands from any share.Mayer Amschel Rothschild built a banking business from the Frankfurt Jewish quarter. He had five sons and five daughters: Jeanette, Isabella, Babette, Julie and Henrietta.rothschildarchive.org and 5 moreChâteau Mouton Rothschild, where the story took place1945 · Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac, Gironde, France; RavensVichy expropriated the Rothschild vineyards at Pauillac, and Philippe de Rothschild's wife died at Ravensbrück before Mouton came back to the familyPhilippe de Rothschild, great-grandson of Nathaniel, who bought Mouton, lost the estate to Vichy in 1942; his wife Lili died at Ravensbrück in 1945.Nathaniel de Rothschild bought the Brane-Mouton vineyard in Pauillac in 1853 and renamed it Mouton Rothschild. The 1855 Bordeaux classification left it out of the first growths.The New York Times and 4 moreGrabstein Mayer Amschel Rothschild: Tombstone for Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) at the old Jewish cemetery (Battonnstraße Cemetery) in Frankfurt am Main The text is translat2015 · Geneva, Switzerland, and Paris, FranceTwo Rothschild banks went to law over who could use the family name alone, and settled in 2018 that neither mayBenjamin de Rothschild, son of Edmond, led the Geneva group that sued Alexandre de Rothschild's Rothschild & Co over the name; they settled in 2018.The Rothschild banks descend from Mayer Amschel Rothschild of Frankfurt. In 2012 Baron David de Rothschild united Rothschild & Cie of Paris with N M Rothschild of London.swissinfo.ch and 3 moreAI illustration: The Hotel Metropole in Vienna under armed guard, 1938, where Louis de Rothschild was held1955 · Montego Bay, JamaicaThe Nazis held Louis de Rothschild hostage in Vienna in 1938 and released him for the family's assetsLouis de Rothschild, head of the Vienna bank, was held by the Nazis in 1938 and released in exchange for the family's assets.Louis de Rothschild ran the Vienna bank S M von Rothschild, the Creditanstalt and the family's Austrian industries, including the Vitkovice ironworks in Moravia.jta.org and 6 more

Rothschild: Wellington's army pay to a 2023 buyout

One fortune, step by step. Every fortune followed through time

from 1811Nathan Rothschild moves pay to Wellington's troops
1835Nathan Rothschild lends £15m for the payments to slave owners
1875British government buys Suez Canal shares with £4m from Rothschild
from c. 1882Edmond de Rothschild funds Jewish settlement in Palestine and buys more than 125,000 acres
1938Louis Rothschild ransomed from the Nazis in Vienna
1981France nationalises the Paris bank; the family rebuilds from 1983
2023Rothschild & Co taken private for €3.7bn