The family was elevated to noble rank in the Holy Roman Empire and the United Kingdom. Unlike most previous court factors, Rothschild managed to bequeath his wealth and established an international banking family through his five sons, who established businesses in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. The Rothschild family ( / ˈ r ɒ θ( s) tʃ aɪ l d/ ROTH(S)-chylde, German: ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Marriage portrait of Charlotte de Rothschild, 1836
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