Johann Baptista Ruffini

Johann Baptist Imperial Knight of Ruffini, originally Johann Baptist Ruffini to Tiefental, (* 1672 in Merano, † June 16, 1749 in Munich) was descended from an old Tyrolean noble family with Italian roots who rose to a significant salt merchant in the Electorate of Bavaria.

Biography

Ruffini, Land of Tyrol and the Nonsberg home, was taken 1693-1695 to Bavaria and settled first in Unterdießen.

From ancient times, the city of Memmingen led the intermediate trade with Bavarian salt to Swabia and Switzerland. 1706 switched to the imperial administration in Bavaria, two years later, the partnership took on the Bavarian side Johann Baptist Ruffini, Munich AC Lord, which in the same year joined the Augsburg merchant and banker Johann Thomas Rauner ( 1659-1735 ). 1713 had the two salt storage in Memmingen, Lindau and Kempten. The town of Landsberg am Lech 80 000 barrels should remove them within four years of salt to the value of 960 000 fl.

As a result, he became the Bavarian Hofkammerrat in Munich and the Imperial Council and obtained the real Bavarian nobleman freedom. He was the only Munich, which benefited from the salt monopoly and acquired with the assets acquired goods Weyhern, Eisolzried with the castle, and Nannhofen Planegg and made ​​several foundations. In 1720 he was elevated to Vienna in the imperial knighthood.

Thanks to a generous donation of the Hofkammerats and bankers could be ordered on January 6, 1737 at Quirin Asam Egid ( 1692-1750 ), a new Sebastian altar of the monastery Fürstenfeld.

At Ruffini today still remembers the 1708 acquired by him Ruffinihaus the cattle market Ranked # 12 in Munich. It now houses the tourist office of the city. On the ground floor you will find traditional Munich stores. His grave stone can be seen on the outside wall of the Munich Peter Church.

Family

Ruffini was married to Agnes, daughter of Carl Albert of Vacchiery, royal real Privy Council and Hofgerichtskanzler († 1808). This marriage came from Franz Xaver Florian († 1815), ex post kurbayerischer chamberlain and privy councilor, who was charged with diploma on August 7, 1769 in the kingdom baron.

Johann Baptist was in second marriage with Maria Johanna (1689-1768), a sister of the Privy Council and Chancellor's Conference Minister Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von Unertl and niece of Traunstein salt administrator Johann Zacharias of Mezger, Edler von Meggen Hoven, married.

His son was the kurbayerische Privy Council, Field Marshal - Lieutenant and Hofkriegsratsdirektor Jean- Gaspard Reichsgraf Basselet of La Rosee, grandson of the Upper Court of Appeal President Aloys Reichsgraf Basselet of La Rosee.