Jose Maria: But his own children and children children have been keenly aware of their parentage. Jose founded Portugal most powerful banking dynasty, and started one of Europe great family fortunes. His heirs would come to control companies with investments in real estate, agriculture and industry as well as finance, on several continents, according to Deutsche Welle. Masters of networking Jose Maria do Espirito Santo e Silva, born in Lisbon on May 13, 1850, didn't know who his father was. His baptismal certificate recorded his paternity as "unknown." Jose began with a modest "caza de cambio" on a small street in Lisbon, exchanging foreign currencies and selling lottery tickets, retail bonds and other financial instruments. By the time he died in 1915, he owned a good deal of real estate in Lisbon as well as companies invested in sugar production in Mozambique, cotton in Angola, and - central to his growing empire - a bank, which in 1920 was renamed Banco Espirito Santo.
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