Ancestral Trails 2016 » Valentina DORIA (± 1300-????)

Personal data Valentina DORIA 

• She was born about 1300 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy.

Household of Valentina DORIA

She is married to Stefano VISCONTI.

They got married in the year 1318.

Child(ren):

1. Galeazzo Ii VISCONTI  ± 1320-1378 
2. Bernabò VISCONTI  1323-1385 

Notes about Valentina DORIA

Doria, originally de Auria (from de filiis Auriae), meaning "the sons of Auria", and then de Oria or d'Oria, is the name of an old and extremely wealthy Genoese family who played a major role in the history of the Republic of Genoa and in Italy, from the 12th century to the 16th century.

According to legend, a noble Genoese lady named Auria or Oria della Volta fell in love with a noble pilgrim who was going to Jerusalem for the First Crusade; his name was Arduino di Narbonne but their children were named after the mother-de Oria, the children of Oria. Arduino was a typical name of the Arduinici family of the Piemonte, some of whose members bore the title of Counts of Auriate; one might then speculate that one of the Arduinici of Auriate gave origin to this family, which suddenly appears in history as a local major power in Liguria in the late 11th century.

Documentary evidence refers to two members of that family, Martino and Genuardo, in 1110; they are called filii Auriae (the sons or children of Oria). The Doria had fiefs in Sardinia from the 12th century to the 15th century, and also in Dolceacqua, Oneglia and Portofino, in the Riviera to the west of Genoa. Although uncommon, Doria is also known as a female first name.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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