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Language of the text: Italiano
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There are no families who are able to document their descent from the patriciate of ancient Rome; but if some of them can with some foundation of truth, we certainly find, and in the front line, the great house of the R., whom we already see in the tenth and eleventh centuries, extremely powerful and almost sovereign of Calabria. Such is precisely the opinion of most historians and genealogists, according to whom the R. are derived from the "Gens Rufa". They would have passed first to the East, at the time of Constantine the Great, and then, after preclaiming military undertakings and having given two empresses to Byzantium (Berenice, wife of Emperor Basil II, and Jole or Jolante, wife of Andronic emperor John Comnenus ) would have come to Calabria with a Giovanni Fulconio R., sent there to rule in the name of the emperor of the East. Dei R. ...
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BlazonRuffo
1. Coat of arms of family: Ruffo
Language of the text: Italiano
Troncato, cuneato d'argento e di nero.
Blasone della famiglia Ruffo (ramo di Scaletta). Fonte bibliografica: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia.
Troncato: inchiavato d’argento e di nero, a tre conchiglie di rosso ordinate nel primo .
Blasone della famiglia Ruffo (ramo Ruffo di Calabria). Fonte bibliografica: "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia.
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