Johann Baptista Ruffini

Johann Baptista Ruffini (* 1672 in Merano; ? June 16, 1749 in Munich) was an important salt trader in Bavaria.

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1672 - Merano - June 16 - 1749 - Munich - Salt trader - Bavaria

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He was married to Maria Johann Unertl (1689-1768), a sister of the Privy Council Chancellor and Conference Minister Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von Unertl and niece of the Traunstein salt administrative officer Johann Zacharias von Mezger, Edler von Meggenhoven.

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Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von Unertl - Traunstein

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Ruffini was elevated Electoral Bavarian Court Chamber Councillor and Imperial Privy Councillor. In 1720, he was nobilitated in Vienna.

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Ruffini is still remembered through the so-called Ruffini house at Munich's Rindermarkt he bought in 1708 and through his tomb stone at the Outer Wall of St. Peter's Church of Munich.

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His son-in-law was Lieutenant field marshal, war council director and Privy councillor Jean-Gaspard Reichsgraf Basselet von La Rosée, his grandson the President of the Electoral Bavarian Upper Court of Appellation Aloys Reichsgraf Basselet von La Rosée.

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Jean-Gaspard Reichsgraf Basselet von La Rosée - Aloys Reichsgraf Basselet von La Rosée

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The present-day head of the family, Enno Freiherr von Ruffin, is married to Greece-born singer Vicky Leandros.

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NAME=Ruffini, Johann Baptista

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