10 Most Expensive Purchases of The Rothschild Family

the most expensive purchases of the Rothschild family in case you're not familiar the Rothschilds are the wealthiest family in the world they descended from a rich German banking family in the 1700s and they've only continued to grow their portfolio since then today their interests cover a diverse range of fields including financial services real estate mining energy mixed farming winemaking and non profits the family is at the core of numerous conspiracy theories most of them anti-semitic in nature as the Rothschilds were one of the first families to advocate Versailles on estate but while they probably don't control the world from the shadows they certainly have more power than any clan on earth given their long history of lavish living today we're looking at the most expensive purchases of the Rothschild family the Rothschild family in total is worth more than 400 billion dollars that's more than four times the next richest individual Jeff Bezos so unsurprisingly the Rothschilds have a pretty impressive real estate portfolio and the majority of the family's assets lie in the United Kingdom despite their German roots when Nathan Mayer Rothschild first arrived in London in the early 19th century his priority was to establish his business and to acquire influence by the time of his death in 1836 he was able to pass on a fast-growing business to his eldest son Lionel Rothschild gunness burry Park in Middlesex was the first Rothschild country house to be purchased marking the start of a move north and west words towards Hertfordshire and the Vale of Aylesbury Janis Murray Park was an incredible foothold in Britain it was owned by the Bishop of London until the 14th century and then was passed through various aristocratic hands over the centuries the Rothschilds extended galas very further acquiring most of old Brentford common field to the west as well as land to the north an old clay pit in the southwest Cole's whole was landscaped to become the Potomac Lake and the tile kiln decided modified to become a boathouse disguised as a gothic folly in 1925 following the death of Nathan's grandson leupold de Rothschild repulse wife Maria and son Lionel sold the 200 acre Gunnar's Berea State adjusted into modern value experts estimate the house was sold for a hundred million dollars but it was actually worth much more the family sold it at a pittance in order to give money back to surrounding taxpayers the estate is now used as a museum the Rothschilds began to acquire large estates in Buckinghamshire in the 1840s when an estate was purchased near meant more for hunting and a stud farm and kennels were established the Buckinghamshire properties included now-famous estates such as ether rope flint house and Waterston manor of these only ether rope is still in the Rothschild family it was originally owned by Alice Rothschild one of the second generation of land owning British Rothschilds Alice chose one of the Rothschild family's favorite architects George Devi who had worked at a nearby escort house Aston Clinton house and meant more towers ether rope was something of a deviation from his usual approach it is constructed in red brick with stone dressings with it's twisted chimneys turrets and Gables it is a mixture of Debbie's usual Jacobean style and French Renaissance architecture of Waterston mana this is especially noticeable on the concave roof to the round lower and the gable on the Cardin visage which are particularly reminiscent of water still because of its small size the house was christened the pavilion or the water pavilion as in other Rothschild homes it as French paneling and furniture dressing rooms Alice also collected Renaissance sculptures paintings and majolica where around the house Alice developed 30 hectares of highly ornamental and innovative gardens that rivaled the splendor of Waterston honour she also created a large kitchen garden and added the old english teahouse to the historic parkland a large long stable block built in stone and half timber with reference to Waterston mana as well as three picturesque lodges house parties from Waterston manor were derived the four miles 40 taking a steam launch up the river to the tea house since then the family has given surrounding us aids-like Waterston mana to the National Trust conservative estimates indicate they have given almost a billion dollars in real estate assets away to charity in England alone but this also indicates just how much real estate they own throughout the massive family tree the family is believed to have several billion dollars worth of real estate in England and ranging from twenty to twenty-five billion dollars worth of real estate around the world this includes significant holdings in France Germany Austria Switzerland and Italy the family made a splash when they sold off a piece of land in Austria the size of Manhattan for a cool a hundred and twelve million dollars also fueling conspiracy theories related to the Rothschilds and the founding of Israeli state the family owned more than ninety thousand acres in the Jezreel Valley in Palestine having purchased it from Ottoman authorities in their dealings with the Empire Edmond de Rothschild began investing in Palestine at the age of 37 in 1882 Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1923 founded the Palestine Jewish colonisation Association which carried on his work under his son James Armand de Rothschild by 1930 bi CA had amassed 5,200 hectares in various parts of the country on which it established 50 settlements both houses and property are just the beginning of the Rothschilds impressive assets they're also behind a massive trust fund called Rothschild Investment Corp top holdings this includes millions of dollars worth of some of the world's biggest companies such as Apple Boeing JPMorgan Chase Microsoft Johnson & Johnson Costco and Berkshire Hathaway though this is only worth about 800 million dollars a tiny fraction of their total net worth it still represents a considerable chunk of the stock market and of course the family has some pretty extravagant personal purchases as well gnat Rothschild one of the most recent generation as a net worth of just over a billion dollars his a hundred million dollar super yacht Planet nine turned heads for its opulent design and massive size the planet nine yacht can accommodate sixteen guests the crew of 26 it is powered by two caterpillar engines which can bring it to a top speed of 16 knots it's an explorer yacht with a helicopter hangar on the upper deck the odds name refers to a hypothetical dwarf planet the planet is orbiting the Sun in the outer region of the solar system it's gravity could explain the unlikely clustering of bodies that orbit beyond Neptune but this boat and more were thrown into jeopardy however when that worth child's company experienced serious financial trouble it turns out even a wealthy Scion can face bankruptcy as well apparently he created a shell company called Bumi in order to construct his yacht and a deluxe private jet he is the owner of a bombardier global 6000 a bombardier global 6000 has a list price of more than 60 million dollars it can accommodate 14 passengers as used to shuttle him his family all over the world and unsurprisingly for such an elite family the Rothschilds own a whole series of wineries the first perhaps most famous is the Chateau Mouton Rothschild located in the city of Bordeaux France originally known as Chateau branmer Torn it's red wine was renamed Nathanael de Rothschild in 1853 to Chateau Mouton Rothschild in the 1920s it began the practice of bottling the harvest at the estate itself rather than shipping the wine to motives for bottling elsewhere Chateau Mouton Rothschild has its vineyards on the slopes leading down to the Gironda estuary in the Bordeaux region mainly producing grapes of the Cabernet Sauvignon variety today Chateau Mouton Rothschild has 222 acres of grapevines made up of Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Cabernet France and Petit Verdot their wine is fermented in oak vats and then matured in new oak casks the grande ven Chateau Mouton Rothschild is one of the world's most expensive and highly rated wines with the average price of a 750 milliliter bottle which in 604 dollars and then there's gold Jacob Rothschild a British investment banker and a man the prominent Rothschild banking family recently announced his plans to buy vast amounts of gold as a warning to bankers that the world is now in uncharted waters Lord Rothschild sees trouble on the horizon for the west and is reacted by replacing dollars with gold Rothschild is signaled that he is shifting from sterling and the US dollar to gold and other currencies by the end of June Rothschilds company had increased its gold and precious metal assets to 8% while 8% may seem like a small portion that means that a single washed child has holdings that represent more than a hundred million dollars in gold but beyond extravagant purchases the Rothschild family had many eccentric items as well perhaps most notably Walter Rothschild had a passion for zoology in the late 1800s there are three things that people tend to know about Walter Rothschild that he trained three zebras to pull a carriage that he was obsessed with the classification of cassowaries and that he was once photographed sitting upon a giant tortoise these were eccentric acts which capture interest as much now as they did back then and yet they are some of the least interesting acts when the extent of Walter's involvement in the late 19th century early 20th century Natural History is considered it had been expected that Walter would follow in his father's footsteps and become a partner in nm Rothschild & Sons however banking was not to prove his forte instead Walter became an outstanding naturalist who established the largest private collection of Natural History specimens the world had ever seen and together with his curators Ernst heart--it and Carl Jordan contributed significantly to the study of animal species and distribution and publishing some 1,200 books and articles based on taxonomic work however Walter was operating at a time when professional scientists were merging as a dominant force in the field of science and wealthy amateur private collectors like Walter were less commonplace than they had once been by the time he died in 1937 Rothschild had already sold his bird collection to the American Museum of Natural History in New York but his egg collection Retief bird specimens in library were gifted to the Natural History Museum the museum also received his intima logical collections which have since been amalgamated with the main entomological collections of its South Kensington site beyond this the family owns a huge house - fine art much of which they have donated over the years for instance the 4th century LaCava scup was donated to the British Museum by Lord Rothschild though it was worth at least $40,000 and many of the family's artworks that were seized by the Nazis during World War 2 have since been recovered and are on display the Nazi regime confiscated nearly 3,500 works of art from the Rothschild collection many of the objects were selected for the Fuhrer Museum the art museum Adolf Hitler planned for the Austrian city of Linz after World War 2 Allied forces uncovered the Nazi looted artwork in the Austrian salt mines of Altaussee and began the process of its restitution or return to its rightful owners since then many of these artworks have been donated to major museums around the world despite having the most incredible fortune in the world the money is evenly divided among thousands of Rothschild descendants at this point there is an old rumor about the Rothschild families unimaginable accumulated global wealth it states that the Rothschilds are worth 500 trillion dollars and hold more than 80 percent of the world's total wealth while the Rothschilds are indeed very wealthy claims about their net worth grossly exaggerated conspiracy theories concerning the Rothschild family date back to the 18th century and the family's wealth was largely responsible for the anti-semitic belief that Jews control the world's money supply the Rothschilds are frequently associated with theories about the Illuminati the New World Order and other dark money groups that supposedly pull the strings of the world governments and the Rothschilds have been blamed for everything from starting wars for personal gain to funding the Holocaust to assassinating the United States presidents in reality the Rothschilds are a family of aristocrats sitting back and enjoying the lavish lifestyle we've grown accustomed to thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed make sure to leave a like and subscribe if you'd like to see more content about money in the luxury side of life make sure to check out my channel and the link at the top of the description as always I'm mr. luxury pip pip - 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Published: Thu Mar 14 2019