Who is the family Thurn und Taxis?
While I was waiting on the Christmas cards 2021 - I thought about the postal service in the past. Who took care of the royal correspondence? Immediately I came to the family Thurn und Taxis. Who is the family Thurn und Taxis? The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis is a family of German nobility that is part of the Briefadel. It was a key player in the postal services in Europe during the 16th. century until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. It became well known as the owner of breweries and builder of many castles. History? The Tasso family was a Lombard family in the area of Bergamo. Omodeo Tasso organized 32 of his relatives into the Company of Couriers and linked Milan to Venice and Rome. In 1443, Ruggiero de Tassis was named to the court of Emperor Frederick the Peaceful . He organized a post system between Bergamo and Vienna by 1450; from Innsbruck to Italy and Styria around 1460; and Vienna with Brussels by 1480. Ruggiero was knighted and made a gent...