 Emanuel Giani Ruset is the son of a Greek pope named Ioannis Giannis or Tzanis and Euphrosine Ruset, great-granddaughter of Prince Antonie Ruset.The Italianization of the name seems to be a fantasy of a cleric in various documents; in any case the phanariots, as dragogists (interpreter-translators of the "Sublime Porte") were all polyglot and sometimes italianized or Frenchified their names.He owes his ascension to the influence of his maternal family related to the Phanariot princes Mavrocordato, Caradja and Soutzo and whose name, deemed prestigious, he associates with his.