Jean-Bernard Knepper (1638 – 14 November 1698) was a Luxembourg advocat and

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, who from 1693 to 1698 was the Mayor (Buergermeeschter) of the City of

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. Knepper was the son of Dominique Knepper, and went to the University of Dole in

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, Burgundy. He studied for law, and was admitted to the Luxembourg bar on 23 May 1660. He became a judge by appointment of

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in 1687. In 1661 he married Anna-Marguerite Trippel, the daughter of a shepherd from

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