as the Porrata Doria family in Spain, which rank as marquesses. Role in the great explorations The Doria clan helped finance the Portuguese and Spanish navigations in the late 15th and 16th centuries. Francesco Doria, a banker at Seville, financed Christopher Columbus's expeditions, and his son Aleramo Doria was a banker to King John III of Portugal until 1556. Finally, Aleramo's daughter Clemenza Doria was one of the earliest settlers in the 16th-century Portuguese colonization of Brazil. Clemenza Doria married twice; her second husband was Fernão Vaz da Costa (c. 1520–1567), son of Portuguese Chief Justice Cristóvão da Costa and a great-grandson of the legendary navigator Soeiro da Costa; they originated the Costa Doria family which is still thriving today as one of their members, José Carlos Aleluia [da Costa Doria], is a representative in the Brazilian congress, and businessman João Doria Jr. or João Agripino da Costa Doria III was the mayor of the city of São Paulo (2017-2018) and the governor of the State of São Paulo (2019-2022). The genoese Lodisio Doria, knight of Christ's Order, settled in the island of Madeira. Their descendants are the Teixeira Doria, lords of Pena d'Aguia, and França Doria families, which also have as direct ancestor the Portuguese navigator Tristão Vaz. The França Doria branch is headed by the Count of Calçada, with a younger branch headed by the Viscount of Torre Bela. In literature The name Doria was used in Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart" series (specifically, the book "Inkdeath") for a semi-main character who eventually fell in love with the teenage heroine. A character in Ada Palmer's near-future sci-fi series "Terra Ignota" is named Julia Doria Pamphili, and is implied to be descended from the historical Doria family. See also Doria Pamphilj Gallery Doria-Pamphili-Landi Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Ambrosio Spinola Doria Doge of Genoa Notes References Teresa Luzzatto Guerrini, I Doria, Novissima Enciclopedia Monografica Illustrata, Florence (1937). Clemente Fusero, I Doria, dall'Oglio (1973). Documentary sources at the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon (Portugal) Roman Catholic families Republic of Genoa families