Rothschild Family Network

Nathan Rothschild during settlement in the UK was a member of the Jewish oligarchy. This is a belonging that its importance in the development of Rothschild financial empire never should be considered insignificant. The relationship between the members of the oligarchy was strengthened via family ties, thus creating single and associated organization.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild had five sons and five daughters. His sons included Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773-1855), Salomon Mayer Rothschild (1774-1855), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), Karl Mayer Rothschild (1788-1855) and James (Jacob) Mayer Rothschild (1792-1868).
The older daughter of Mayer Amschel Rothschild married Benedict Moses Worms (d. 1824) in 1795. Since then, Mayer Amschel and Worms were a partner and assistant. Benedict Worms is grandson of Rabbi Aaron (Harun) Worms. Aaron Worms (1754-1836) is one of the prominent Rabbis stationed in France. He joined "National Guard" in the French Revolution and in the years 1806-1807 he became member of the "Council of the Elders of Zion" (Sanhedrin), which was formed to address the demands of Napoleon.
In the following years, other sons of Mayer Amschel Rothschild also married wealthy Jewish families in Europe. Thus, in the early nineteenth century members of the families of Worms, Hanau, Stern, Cohen, Seychelles, Beyfus, Hertz and Monte Fiore were daughter-in-laws or son-in-law of Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Among ten children of Mayer Amschel Rothschild only the youngest one, James (Jacob) Rothschild, married with a member of his family: in 1824 he married to Betty (1805-1886), the daughter of his older brother, Salomon Mayer Rothschild. This is the only example of marrying relatives that is known in Rothschild family. The result of this union is Rothschild's Paris branch. Betty Rothschild's mother was from Stern plutocracy family who will speak about her later.
In the third generation (grandchildren of the Moses Mayer Amschel the founder), of the Rothschild, 14 cases married their cousins and in 4 cases with non-Rothschild. Of these, one case married to Monte Fiore family, one case married to the house of Cohen and one case married to family of Anspach. Philip Anspach (1800-1875) participated the French Revolution in 1830 and since the time of Louis Philippe, he became influential among politicians and the judiciary of France. In 1859, Gustave de Rothschild, the second son of James de Rothschild of France, married with Cecil Anspach. The first marriage with Christians was performed in this generation: in 1839, the daughter of Nathan Mayer London married Henry Fitzroy, who was from the British political figures.
In the fourth generation of Rothschild, who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, 13 marriages with Rothschild members and 18 cases of marriages with non-Rothschild family members have been reported. In this generation, the Rothschild’s married with families of Jewish plutocracy or aristocratic families of Britain and Europe: Baron Raymondo von Franchetti (1858), Eliot York (1873), Lord Battersea the first (1877), Earl Rosebery (1878), Duc Gramont (1878), Max Goldschmidt (1878), Maria Perugia (1881), Prince Wagram (1882), Baron Leon Lambert (1882), Maurice Ephrussi (?), Sir Edward Sassoon (1887), Alice Halphen (1905), Baron Emmanuel Leonino(?), Nellie Bear (1907) Baron Zuylen Nyevelt (?),Naomi Halphen(1909), Albert Max Gldashmyt(1910) and Dorothy Pinto (1913).
In the fifth generation of Rothschild (late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century), 22 cases of marriage with non-Rothschild hast are recorded. In the sixth and seventh generations, and in the eighth generation (today), generally they marry with non-Rothschild, but marriages are within the contemporary cosmopolitan plutocracy oligarchy.
Nathan Rothschild married to the daughter of Levi Barnert Cohen in 1806 (1740-1808) from descendant of plutocracy Cohen.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the house of Cohen's branch in the Netherlands was one of the richest money changers and merchants of Amsterdam and most famous of them was the Benjamin Cohen (1726-1800). He possessed big cultivation Plants and production of tobacco in the Netherlands and its colonies and exported his products mainly to the Baltic States. Benjamin Cohen had an important role in global trade of diamonds. He signed a contract in 1788 in which his institution was required to enter the annual forty thousand carats of diamonds from Brazil. He was Europe's first dealers and gave huge loans to the government. For example, twice he gave enormous loans (by the sum of 5 and 3 million guilders) to the Prussian state. Benjamin Cohen is cited as financial adviser of William V, prince of Netherlands from the House of Orange. Jonas Daniel Meyer, grandson of Benjamin Cohen and a prominent Jewish scholar and historian was also friend and adviser of William V of Orange and William I, King of the Netherlands. Goldschmidts of London were close relatives and partner of Benjamin Cohen and probably it was due to the fact that Levi Barnet Cohen also was based in London.
Levi Barnert Cohen was also one of wealthy businessmen and bankers of Amsterdam. He immigrated to England in the 1770s and was one of the prominent money changers and merchants of London. Levi Cohen was one of prominent figures of the British Jewish community and was in charge of the Central Synagogue in London. After the marriage, the sons of Levi Cohen, especially Solomon Cohen (1776-1864) and Benjamin Cohen (1789-1867), became the main partners of Nathan Rothschild.
Levi Barnert Cohen had four sons and two daughters that founded numerous branch of the Cohen family in the UK. The younger daughter of Levi Barnert Cohen married with the Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) in 1812. Union of Nathan Rothschild and Moses Montefiore, two brothers-in-law, played an important role in the development of their activities, and Nathan took a great advantage of ability and political and commercial instincts of Montefiore. Abraham Montefiore (1788-1824), the younger brother of the Moses Montefiore, after the death of his first wife, married to younger sister of Nathan Rothschild in 1815 and one of the sisters of Moses and Abraham Montefiore also married to Benjamin Cohen.
Montefiore family is originally from the Iberian Peninsula Jewish immigrants. Resources of their backgrounds in Spain and their name during staying in the land do not give us any information. The first person known from the family is Judah who lived in the Italian Legorn port in the first half of the seventeenth century and his wife was from Olioti Jewish family. Today Olioti family is known as big capitalists of Italy. In 1960s about 25 thousand people were employed in their institutions.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, a descendant of Judah, in the name of Moses Vita Montefiore (1712-1789), together with his two brothers, David and Joseph, immigrated to England from Italy and started importing straw hats. Mother of Moses Vita was daughter of David Medina, and thus she was relative of Sir Solomon Medina, military contractor in British court in the first half of the eighteenth century. In the second half of the eighteenth century, Medina family had business with the British and they obtained great wealth in the land. Moses Vita was one of the great businesses that in 1760 he went to George III and kissed the British Kin's hand.
Moses Vita Montefiore had 17 children. His children and grandchildren in addition to Cohen and Rothschild, married to the Jewish families Barrow, Mocatta, Samuel, Goldsmid and Sebag and they or their children became influential figures in Great Britain's empire. One of the sons of Moses Vita, Joseph Elias Montefiore (1759-1804), married to the daughter of Abraham Mukata, London Jewish plutocracy. Sir Moses Montefiore and Abraham Monte Fiore were the children of this marriage.
The Jewish Encyclopedia remembers Moses Monte Fiore as "the most famous British Jew in the nineteenth century".
Moses Montefiore educated as a child with his uncle, Rabbi Moses Mukata, and in youth he started working in wholesale institution of tea and herbs. He was busy exchanging from 1803, and in the field he had reputation, and in December 1815, along with his uncle Rabbi Moses Mukata, Joseph Cohen (brother of Nathan Rothschild's wife and Moses Monte Fiore) and members of the Rothschild family and Goldschmidt and Ellis and others became so of the 12 official Jewish bankers in London's stock market. Later, Moses and his brother, Abraham, founded their own company. After a kinship with the Rothschild family, Monte Fiore men worked as dealer of Rothschild Foundation and found fame and wealth.
Moses Montefiore bought property in the UK, including his vast property on the banks of Rams gate. Montefiore was sheriff of London in the years 1837-1838.He was the first Jew who was appointed in the position and at the same time, Queen Victoria awarded him "knight of the empire of Great Britain" (knighthood). In 1846, Sir Moses Montefiore became "Baronet". He was chairman of the "council of representatives of the Jewish community in Great Britain" in the years 1835-1847.
Moses Montefiore had multiple sea trips to the Orient. Jewish sources say that purpose of the trips was finance and business issues and dealing with Jewish affairs. These trips were made by merchant ships belonging to him.
In 1827, he had his first visit to East including Egypt and Palestine. Throughout his life he went to Palestine seven times, that the recent one was in 1874. In the 1830s Montefiore attempted to buy Palestinian agricultural lands from Mohammad Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, and he also reached an agreement with him. However, due to the shortening of MA of Palestine (1841), the deal was not done.
Moses Montefiore also traveled to Russia and met Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia. Montefiore was very tall (190 cm height), and this gave him a dignified and respectable appearance. This matter in addition to being a good speaker made Queen Victoria interested in him and attracted support of Great Britain's government, so he paved all the way.
Montefiore lived 101 years. Jews around the world celebrated the centenary of his birth and declared the day a public holiday. Sir Moses Montefiore did not have any child and could not leave any generation after his death.
The Moses Montefiore was not the only one in the family who obtained power and wealth in Great Britain imperial units. Many members of this family were in such a situation. For example, two other grandsons of the Moses Vita, named Joseph Barrow Montefiore (1803-1893) and Jacob Montefiore (1801-1895), were prominent political and economic figures in Australia in the nineteenth century.