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Ruffo Di Scilla
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Non esistono famiglie che siano in grado di documentare la loro discendenza dal patriziato dell'antica Roma; ma se alcune di esse possono con qualche fondamento di verità, trovasi certamente, ed in prima linea, la grande casata dei Ruffo, che vediamo già nei secoli X e XI potentissima e quasi sovrana delle Calabria. Tale è appunto l'opinione di gran parte degli storici e dei genealogisti, secondo i quali i Ruffo sarebbero derivati dalla "Gens Rufa". Sarebbero passati dapprima in Oriente, ai tempi di Costantino il Grande, e quindi, dopo preclare imprese militari e dopo aver dato due imperatrici a Bisanzio (Berenice, moglie dell'imperatore Basilio II, e Jole o Jolante, moglie dell'imperatore Andronico Giovanni Comneno) sarebbero venuti in Calabria con un Giovanni Fulconio R., ivi inviato a governare in nome dell'imperatore d'Oriente. Dei R. trovansi chiare notizie in Calabria verso il 1000, rilevandosi dalla cronaca Cassinese di Leone ...
When you buy a heraldic document a new accurate analysis of the heraldic research will be performed by an expert heraldist and the document will be written in Italian or English.
The coat of arms will be checked and, if necessary, redesigned in strict compliance with the heraldic rules by our experts.
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The Heraldic Traces are dossiers made by an A.I. useful as a starting point for researchers and passionate heraldists and confirm that there is information to work on and it is possible to order a heraldic document.
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
