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Spouse: Prince Essamain Emna MacBlathachta of IRELAND. Children were: Prince Rogen Ruad MacEssamain of IRELAND.
Princess Magach of IRELAND.
Spouse: 81st Monarch Aengus Tuirbheach Teamhrach of IRELAND. Children were: 84th Monarch Enna Aignech MacAengusa of IRELAND.
71St Monarch Melghe Molbthach of IRELAND died /killed by Maoib unknown in unknown. Melghe (Meig) Molbthach.
Parents: 69th Monarch Cobthach Caol Breagh of IRELAND.
Children were: 74th Monarch Irereo Fathach of IRELAND.
Princess Mew of IRELAND. Parents: 93rd Monarch Eochaidh Feidlech MacFinn of IRELAND and Cruathan CROTHEARG.
Mew of IRELAND. Parents: Prince Smiorgall MacEnboth of IRELAND.
131St Monarch Mortough of IRELAND died in 527. aka: Murdach.
Parents: Muireadhach and Earca ingen LOAIRN.
Children were: King Fergus I of DAL RIATA, Fergus BEE, Loarnd BEE, Mac Nisse BECC, Loarnd MOR, Mac Nisse MOR, High King Muredoch of IRELAND, Mac Decill, Oengus, Enna, Bresal, Fiachra, Dubhthach.
3rd Monarch Muimhne of IRELAND. Parents: 2nd Monarch Heremon of IRELAND and Queen of Ireland, Tamar of JUDAH.
122Nd Monarch Muireadhach Tireach of IRELAND died in 357 in the Battle of Dubhall. aka Muireadhach Tireach - Muireadeach (II) Tirech MacFIACHACH.
Parents: King of Connaught & 120th Monarch Fiachu Sraiptine of IRELAND and Aife of GALL GAEDAL.
Spouse: Muirion. Children were: 124th Monarch Eochaid of IRELAND.
46Th Monarch Murchad Balgrach MacSimon of IRELAND died /killed by the 47th Monarch unknown in unknown. Murchad (Muireadhach; I) Balgrach MacSIMON - aka Muiredach Bolgach.
Three of his grandsons were Monarchs.
Parents: 44th Monarch Simon Breach of IRELAND.
Children were: 55th Monarch Fiacha Tolgrach of IRELAND, Dui TEAMRACH.
High King Muredoch of IRELAND was born before 504 in unknown. He died unknown in unknown. Parents: 131st Monarch Mortough of IRELAND.
126Th Monarch Niall of IRELAND died /killed by the Prince of Leinster about 405 in Boulogne. aka Nial Mor NAOIGHIALLACH `of the Nine Hostages'; 1st King (but reckoned 126th MONARCH) of IRELAND; conquered nine countries (incl. part of France).
Parents: 124th Monarch Eochaid of IRELAND.
Children were: 1st King Eoghan of AILECH, Conall I Cremthainne MACNEILL, Laeghaire, Fiacha MACNEILL, Eogan OWEN, Conall Gulban MACNEILL, Cairpre MACNEILL.
39Th Monarch Nuahhas Fionn Fail of IRELAND died /killed by the 40th Monarch unknown in unknown. Nuahhas (Nuadha) FIONN FAIL - aka Nuadhat I.
Parents: 37th Monarch Giallchadh of IRELAND.
Children were: Prince Aedham Glas of IRELAND, Princess Dubha of IRELAND, Eyvindr of IRELAND.
77Th Monarch Olioll Caisfhiachlach of IRELAND died /killed by Adhamhar (78th Monarch) unknwon in unknown. Olioll (Ailill; III) Caisfhiachlach of IRELAND - CAS-FIACLACH (`Crooked-Toothed'.
Parents: 76th Monarch Connla Cruiaidhchealgach Caem of IRELAND and Princess Sabhdh of IRELAND.
Children were: 79th Monarch Eochaidh Ailtleathair of IRELAND.
Prince Olioll Olchaoin of IRELAND. aka Ailill Oalchlaen (Aolcheoin) MacSIRNA.
Parents: 34th Monarch Siorna Sirsaeglach MacDian of IRELAND.
Children were: 37th Monarch Giallchadh of IRELAND.
Prince Rogen Ruad MacEssamain of IRELAND. Roignen `the Red' Ruadh (Prince) of IRELAND - aka Rogen (Roighnein) Ruad MacESSAMAIN.
Parents: Prince Essamain Emna MacBlathachta of IRELAND and Princess Magach of IRELAND.
Children were: Prince Finnlogha MacRogen of IRELAND.
22Nd Monarch Rothectaid Rigderg MacMoen of IRELAND died /killed by the 23rd Monarch unknown in unknown. Rothectaid Rigderg (Roitheaehtaigh) MacMOEN - aka Rotheachtach.
Parents: Prince Maen MacAengusa of IRELAND and Princess Hvarfiad of IRELAND.
Children were: Prince Deman MacRothectaid of IRELAND, Feargusa of IRELAND.
Princess Sabhdh of IRELAND.
Spouse: 76th Monarch Connla Cruiaidhchealgach Caem of IRELAND. Children were: 77th Monarch Olioll Caisfhiachlach of IRELAND.
Princess Sabilla of IRELAND.
Spouse: King Lavra Labhra of IRELAND. Children were: Blathachtach(Blatact).
44Th Monarch Simon Breach of IRELAND died /killed by the 45th Monarch abt 903 B.C. in unknown. Simon (Simeon Siomon) BREACH.
He killed the 43rd Monarch.
Parents: Prince Aedham Glas of IRELAND.
Children were: 46th Monarch Murchad Balgrach MacSimon of IRELAND.
Princess Sinusa of IRELAND.
Spouse: 13th Monarch Tighearnmhas MacFollach of IRELAND. Children were: Prince Eanbothadh MacTigernmas of IRELAND.
34Th Monarch Siorna Sirsaeglach MacDian of IRELAND died /killed by the 35th Monarch unknown in unknown. Sirna (Siorna) Sirsaeglach `the Long Lived' MacDIAN.
Parents: Prince Deman MacRothectaid of IRELAND.
Children were: Prince Olioll Olchaoin of IRELAND.
Prince Smiorgall MacEnboth of IRELAND. Parents: Prince Eanbothadh MacTigernmas of IRELAND.
Children were: 18th Monarch Fiachu Labrainn MacSmirgoll of IRELAND, Mew of IRELAND.
13Th Monarch Tighearnmhas MacFollach of IRELAND died bet abt 692 and 1543 B.C. in unknown. Parents: Prince Follagh MacEthrel of IRELAND.
Spouse: Princess Sinusa of IRELAND. Children were: Prince Eanbothadh MacTigernmas of IRELAND.
106Th Monarch Tuathal Techtmar of IRELAND was born before 106 in Scotland. He died /slain by Mal (107th Monarch) about 106 in unknown. Tuathal (I) Techtmar (TEACHTMAR) (MacFIACHACH).
106th (& first certainly historical) MONARCH of IRELAND; fought numerous battles to conquer Ireland; established capital district in Meath.
Parents: 104th Monarch Fiache Fionnolaidh MacFeredaig of IRELAND and Eithne of ALBA.
Spouse: Baine ingen SCAL. Children were: 108th Monarch Felim Rachtmar MacTuathal of IRELAND, Fedelm Derg ingen TUATHAIL.
King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC was born abt 1892 B.C. in Haran. He died abt 1745 B.C. in Egypt. Jacob or Ya'akov, also called Israel is the third Biblical patriarch. His father is Isaac, and his grandfather is Abraham. He plays a major part in some of the later events in the Book of Genesis.
Jacob described in the Hebrew Bible
Jacob was born 20 years after Isaac and Rebekah were married, at which time his father was 60 (Genesis. 25:26), and Abraham was 160 years old. He and his twin brother, Esau, were markedly different in appearance and behavior. Esau was a ruddy hunter, while Jacob was a gentle man who "dwelled in tents," interpreted by many biblical commentators as a mark of his studiousness and reserved personality.
During Rebekah's pregnancy, "the children struggled together within her" (Genesis 25:22). According to Rashi, whenever Rebekah passed a house of learning, Jacob would struggle to get out; whenever she passed a house of idolatry, Esau would struggle to get out. Fearing that she was carrying one rather schizophrenic child, Rebekah questioned God about the tumult and learned that two children were in her womb, who would become two very different nations. They would always be in competition, and eventually, the elder would serve the younger. She did not tell her husband Isaac about this prophecy, but remembered it later when she told Jacob to go to his father in place of Esau to receive the paternal blessing.
Esau was born first. Right behind was his brother Jacob, who was grasping onto Esau's heel. Thus he was named Yaakov, from the Hebrew root "heel." The commentators explain that Jacob was trying to hold Esau back from being the firstborn and claiming the Abrahamic legacy for himself.
According to the text, Jacob was favored by his mother, while Esau was favored by his father.
Buying the birthright
Until the age of 15, the twins were raised in the same environment and exposed to the same teachings of their father Isaac and grandfather Abraham. On the day Abraham died, however, Esau went out to the field (according to Rashi, he abandoned the Torah path that day and committed the three cardinal sins(murder, idol worship, and adultery), and returned famished. He saw Jacob preparing a pot of lentils (the traditional dish prepared for a mourner)in this case, Isaac, who was mourning the death of his father) and asked Jacob for some of that "red, red stuff." For this reason, Esau was also called Edom - "red." Jacob demanded that Esau sell him his birthright in exchange. Noting that the birthright was useless to him if he died, Esau agreed, and the exchange was made. In the words of the Bible, Esau "despised" his birthright.
This birthright included not only the traditional Biblical birthright, which granted superior rank in the family (Gen. 49:3), a double portion of the paternal inheritance (Deut. 21:17), and the priestly office in the family (Num. 8:17-19), but the Abrahamic blessing as well, which promised the seed in which all the nations of the earth were to be blessed. However, Esau well knew the prophecy which Abraham had received from God (Genesis 15:13-14) that his seed would first be enslaved for 400 years before returning to their own land. This prophecy referred to the enslavement of the Jewish people in Egypt. Esau wanted none of that, so he agreed to forfeit the right to be God's chosen people.
The paternal blessing
When Isaac grew old and was blind, he decided to bless his eldest son before he died. He sent Esau out in the fields to hunt down some meat and prepare him a meal, after which he would receive his blessing. (According to the Jewish commentators, since the blessing would be prophetic, and prophecy only rests on one who is in a joyful state of mind, Isaac desired to first eat meat and drink wine to arouse himself to happiness.)
Rebekah overheard this exchange. As Esau went out to the hunt, she instructed Jacob to fetch her two goats so that she could prepare a tasty meal for his father, and commanded him to bring the meal to Isaac to receive the blessing in his brother's stead. Jacob protested that his father might notice the substitution through touch, since Esau was hairy and he was smooth. Rebekah told him not to worry, and placed hairy goatskins over his neck and arms.
Thus disguised, Jacob went into his father's tent. Isaac was surprised that he had returned so soon from the "hunt." "Who are you, my son?" Isaac asked suspiciously. "I am Esau your firstborn," Jacob replied (the Hebrew words, however, can be divided into two statements: "I" and "Esau is your firstborn"). Isaac was still suspicious and asked to feel him, since Esau was hairy. The goatskins seemed to fool him, though he maintained, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Nevertheless, Isaac blessed him.
As soon as Jacob left the tent, Esau arrived and exposed the deception. Isaac was shaken, but affirmed that Jacob would indeed be blessed. To Esau's pathetic entreaties, he agreed to give Esau a lesser blessing. Esau exclaimed, "Is that why he is called Jacob, because he has deceived me these two times?" (Genesis 27:35), another play on Jacob's name. Then Esau swore to himself that he would kill Jacob in revenge as soon as his father was dead.
In the house of Laban
Rebekah prophetically intuited Esau's murderous intentions, and commanded Jacob to flee to the house of her brother, Laban, until Esau's rage subsided. His trip would serve the double purpose of finding a wife, as Laban had two daughters, Leah and Rachel.
En route to Haran, Jacob experienced a vision in which he saw a ladder reaching into heaven with angels going up and down it, a vision that is commonly referred to as Jacob's Ladder. From the top of the ladder he heard the voice of God, who repeated many of the blessings upon him. According to Rashi, this ladder signified the exiles which the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Messiah. The angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia, Persia, and Greece climbed "up" very high before falling "down," but the last exile, that of Rome/Edom (whose guardian angel was Esau himself) kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds. Jacob feared that his children would never be free of Esau's domination, but God assured him that at the End of Days, Edom too would come falling down.
Jacob awoke in the morning and continued on his way to Haran. He stopped by the well where the shepherds were gathering their flocks to water them and met Laban's younger daughter, his cousin Rachel. He loved her immediately, and after spending a month with his relatives, asked for her hand in marriage in return for working seven years for Laban.
These seven years seemed to Jacob "but a few days, for the love he had for her," but when they were complete, Laban deceived Jacob by switching his older daughter, Leah, as the veiled bride. According to the traditional, Midrashic interpretation of the story, both Jacob and Rachel suspected that Laban would pull such a trick, for he was known as the "Aramean" (deceiver), and changed Jacob's wages hundreds of times during his employ. The couple devised a series of signs by which Jacob could identify the veiled bride, but when Rachel saw her sister being taken out to the wedding canopy, her heart went out to her and the public shame she would suffer if she was exposed. Therefore she gave Leah the signs so that Jacob would not realize the switch.
In the morning, when the truth became known, Laban justified himself, saying that in their country it was unheard of to give the younger daughter before the older. However, he agreed to give Rachel in marriage as well if Jacob worked another seven years for him. After the week of wedding celebrations with Leah, Jacob married Rachel, and continued to work for Laban another seven years.
The Bible states that Jacob loved Rachel more than anything in the world, and Leah felt hated. God opened Leah's womb and she gave birth to four sons in succession: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. Rachel, however, was barren, and gave Jacob her handmaid Bilhah in marriage so she could raise children through her. Bilhah gave birth to Dan and Naphtali. Seeing that she had left off childbearing temporarily, Leah then gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob in marriage so she could raise more children through her. Zilpah gave birth to Gad and Asher. (According to some opinions, Bilhah and Zilpah were younger daughters of Laban). Afterwards, Leah became fertile again and gave birth to Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. At this point, God remembered Rachel, who gave birth to Joseph. Various interpretations of biblical passages suggest that Jacob's favoritism of Rachel over Leah passed over to their children; some commentators feel that this plays an important role in the later attempt on Joseph's life by his half-brothers.
Around the time that Joseph was born, Jacob desired to return home to his parents, but Laban was reluctant to release him. God had blessed his flock on account of Jacob. Now Laban offered to pay Jacob, and Jacob proposed an unusual deal. He suggested that Laban remove all the spotted, speckled and brown goats and sheep from the flock; whichever ones would be born after that would be Jacob's wages. Left alone, Jacob planted rods of poplar, hazel, and chestnut in front of the flocks' watering holes, and when the animals saw them, they gave birth to spotted, speckled and brown foals. Thus Jacob became quite wealthy.
As time passed, Laban's sons noticed that Jacob was taking the better part of their flocks, and Laban's friendly attitude towards Jacob began to change. God told Jacob he should now leave, and he and his wives and children did so without informing Laban. Before they left, Rachel stole all the religious icons from Laban's house.
Laban, in a rage, pursued Jacob for seven days. The night before he caught up to him, God spoke to him in a dream and warned him not to say anything good or bad to Jacob. When the two met, Laban played the part of the injured father-in-law and also demanded his religious icons back. Knowing nothing about Rachel's theft of the icons, Jacob told Laban that whoever stole them should die, and offered to let him search. When Laban reached Rachel's tent, she hid the icons by sitting on them. Jacob and Laban parted from each other in peace, Laban returning home and Jacob continuing on his way.
Return to Canaan
Jacob struggles with the angel, by RembrandtAs Jacob neared the land of Canaan, he sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau. They returned with the news that Esau was coming to meet Jacob with an army of 400 men. In great apprehension, Jacob prepared for the worst. He felt that he must now depend only on God, and he betook himself to Him in earnest prayer, then sent on before him a munificent present to Esau, "a present to my lord Esau from thy servant Jacob."
Jacob then transported his family and flocks back across the ford Jabbok, then crossed over towards the direction from which Esau would come, spending the night alone, in communion with God. There, a mysterious being ("a man", according to Genesis 32:24, or "the angel", according to Hosea 12:4) appeared and wrestled with Jacob until daybreak. When he saw he could not defeat Jacob, he touched him on the sinew of his thigh (the gid hanasheh). As a result, the Israelites would not consume that part of an animal's thigh from that point on (Genesis 32:33). This incident still has an impact on many Jews today, as Orthodox Jews will not eat the area containing the gid hanasheh (commonly identified as the sciatic nerve) on an otherwise kosher animal.
Jacob then demanded a blessing, and the mysterious being said that from now on, Jacob would be called Israel (Hebrew Yisra'el, meaning "one who has struggled with God"). Jacob then asked the being's name, but the being refused to answer. Afterwords Jacob named the place Pnei-el (Penuel, meaning "face of God"), saying "I have seen God face to face and lived."
Because of the ambiguous and varying terminology, and because the being refused to reveal its name, there are varying views as to whether this mysterious being was a man, an angel, or God Himself. According to Rashi, he was the guardian angel of Esau himself, sent to destroy Jacob before he could return to the land of Canaan. Trachtenberg theorizes that the being refused to identify itself for fear that if its secret name was known, it would have been conjurable by incantations (Trachtenberg 1939, p. 80). Some commentators, however, argue that the stranger was God Himself, citing Jacob's own words and the name he assumed thereafter ("One who has struggled with God"). They point out that although later holy scriptures maintain that God does not manifest as a mortal, several instances of it arguably occurs in Genesis, for example, in 18:1, with Abraham.
In the morning Jacob assembled his wives and 11 sons, placing Rachel and her children in the rear and Leah and her children in the front. Some commentators cite this placement as proof that Jacob continued to favor Rachel's children over Leah's, as presumably the rear position would be safer from a frontal assault by Esau, which Jacob feared. Jacob himself took the foremost position. Esau's spirit of revenge, however, had by this time been appeased by Jacob's bounteous gift of camels, goats and flocks. Their reunion was an emotional one. Esau offered to accompany them on their way back to Israel, but Jacob protested that his children were still young and tender; they would eventually catch up with Esau at Mount Seir. According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants would come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia (Obadiah 1:21).
Jacob arrived in Shechem, where he bought a parcel of land that would eventually house Joseph's Tomb. In Shechem, his daughter through Leah, Dinah, was raped by the prince's son, who desired to marry the girl. Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, offered to go ahead with the match as long as all the men of Shechem first performed the mitzvah of circumcision upon themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in familial harmony. On the third day after the circumcision, when all the men of Shechem were most weak, Simeon and Levi put all the residents to death by the sword and escaped with their sister, Dinah. Jacob remained silent about the episode, but later rebuked his two sons for their anger in his deathbed blessing (Genesis 49:5-7).
As Jacob and his entourage neared the border of Canaan, Rachel went into labor and died as she gave birth to her second,and Jacob's twelfth son, Benjamin. Jacob buried her and erected a monument over her grave, which is located just outside Bethlehem. Rachel's Tomb remains a popular site for pilgrimages and prayers to this day.
Jacob was finally reunited with his father Isaac in Mamre (outside Hebron). When Isaac died at the age of 180, Jacob and Esau buried him together in the Cave of Machpelah which Abraham had purchased as a family burial plot.
Jacob and Joseph
The Bible next relates the story of Joseph, who was separated from his father Jacob at the age of 17 and sent down to Egypt as a slave by his brothers, who were jealous of his dreams of kingship over them. Jacob was deeply grieved by the loss of his favorite son, and refused to be comforted. Christian commentators have speculated that this was a punishment from God due to Jacob's earlier sins, which included impersonation of Esau (a form of lying or deception) and polygamy.
Thirteen years after the sale of Joseph, Pharaoh had two troubling dreams which could not be interpreted to his satisfaction. Joseph, who was in the king's prison, was recommended to Pharaoh as an interpreter of dreams, and he explained the dreams as relating to seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Pharaoh was so impressed that he made Joseph viceroy over Egypt and the manager of Egypt's grain stores. Joseph artfully managed first the storage and then the distribution of Egypt's grain, making Pharaoh quite wealthy.
When the famine struck, the sons of Jacob went down to Egypt to procure grain for their starving families in Canaan. Joseph recognized them, and demanded to see the twelfth brother of whom they spoke, his own full-brother, Benjamin. He took Simeon as a hostage until they returned with Benjamin. Jacob was distraught when he heard this news, for Benjamin was all that was left to him of his beloved wife Rachel's children, and he refused to release him lest something happen to Benjamin, too. But when their food stores ran out and the famine worsened, Jacob agreed to Judah's promise to protect Benjamin from harm. The brothers returned to Joseph, and when Joseph saw Benjamin he was overcome with emotion, and revealed himself to his brothers. He invited them to bring their families and their father, Jacob, down to Egypt to live near him, and gave them a place to live in the Egyptian province of Goshen.
Jacob's last seventeen years were spent in tranquility in Egypt, knowing that all his 12 sons were righteous people, and he died at the age of 147. Before he died, he made Joseph promise that Joseph would bury him in the Cave of Machpelah, even though Jacob had buried Joseph's mother, Rachel, by the side of the road and not in the Cave (Leah was buried there, instead). With Pharaoh's permission, Joseph led a huge state funeral back to the land of Canaan, with the 12 sons carrying their father's coffin and many Egyptian officials accompanying them.
Before he died, Jacob also elevated Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, to the status of full tribes. He also blessed each of his sons. According to the Midrash, he desired to tell them the exact date when the Messiah would arrive, but the prophecy failed him. He feared lest one of his sons was not righteous, but they responded, "Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad" - "Hear O Israel [Israel being another name of Jacob], the Lord Our God, the Lord is One!" Satisfied that his sons were united in the service of God, Jacob proclaimed, "Baruch Shem Kavod Malchuso Le'Olam Va'Ed" - "Blessed is the Name of His glorious Kingdom for ever and ever". Today these two verses are said together, the first one aloud and the second one quietly, in the morning and evening Jewish prayer services.
Other references to Jacob
Jacob is the only person in Scripture whom God said He "loved". (Malachi 1:2?3, "...I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau...", also quoted in Romans).
Jacob had twelve sons by his four wives, as follows:
By Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun.
By Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.
By Zilpah: Gad and Asher.
By Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
These 12 sons comprise the twelve Tribes of Israel. These tribes were recorded on the vestments of the Kohen Gadol (high priest). However, when the land of Israel was apportioned among the tribes in the days of Joshua, the Tribe of Levi, being priests, did not receive land. Therefore, when the tribes are listed in reference to their receipt of land, as well as to their encampments during the 40 years of wandering in the desert, the Tribe of Joseph is replaced by the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh (the two sons of Joseph by his Egyptian wife Asenath, whom Jacob elevated to the status of full tribes).
Parents: Isaac ibn ABRAHAM and Rebekah bint BETHEUL.
Spouse: Leah bint LABAN. King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC and Leah bint LABAN were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: King of Goshen, Judah ibn JACOB, Levi ibn JACOB, Simeon ibn JACOB, Dinah, Zebulum ibn JACOB, Issachar ibn JACOB, Reuben ibn JACOB.
Spouse: Rachel bint LABAN. King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC and Rachel bint LABAN were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Benjamin ibn JACOB, Joseph ben JACOB.
Spouse: Zilpah ibn JACOB. King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC and Zilpah ibn JACOB were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Asher ibn JACOB, Gad ibn JACOB.
Spouse: Bilhah. King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC and Bilhah were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Dan ibn JACOB, Naphtali ibn JACOB.
Gerlach I of ISENBURG was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown.
Spouse: Imagina of BLIESKASTEL. Gerlach I of ISENBURG and Imagina of BLIESKASTEL were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Imagina.
Heiress Abijah of ISRAEL was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.
Spouse: King Achaz of JUDAH. King Achaz of JUDAH and Heiress Abijah of ISRAEL were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: King Ezechias of JUDAH, Maaseiah.
Prince Aram of ISRAEL was born abt 1589 B.C. in Egypt. He died aft 1464 B.C. in unknown. Parents: Hezron and Jephunneh.
Spouse: Kiya-Tasherit. Children were: Amminadab.
King Solomon ben David of ISRAEL was born before 100 in unknown. He died abt 926 B. C. in unknown. Parents: King David of JUDAH and Israel and Bathsheba.
Spouse: Queen Bilqis of ARABIA.
Spouse: Nicaule of EGYPT.
Spouse: Princess Naamah of AMMONITES.
Spouse: Queen Makeda of SHEBA.
Spouse: Abishag of SHUNEM. Children were: King Roboam of JUDAH and Israel, 1st King Menelik of ETHIOPIA, Basemath, Taphath.
Adelaide of ITALY was born in 922 in Burgundy, France. She died on 16 Dec 999 in Selta, Alsace. Saint Adelaide of Italy (931-December 16, 999), perhaps the most prominent European woman of the tenth century, was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia. Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothar II of Arles, the nominal King of Italy; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father, Rudolf II, and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothar, who married her widowed mother himself.
The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como. She escaped to the protection at Canossa of Azzo, count of Modena-Reggio, where she was besieged by Berengar. She managed to send an emissary to threw herself on the mercy of Otto I the Great. His brothers were equally willing to save the heiress of Italy, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951; he was crowned Emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 and, most unusually, she was crowned Empress at the same ceremony. Among their children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952; Bruno, born 953; Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954; and Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor, born 955.
In Germany, the crushing of a revolt in 953 by Ludolf, Otto's son by his first marriage, cemented the position of Adelaide, who retained all her dower lands. She accompanied Otto in 966 on his third expedition to Italy, where she remained with him for six years.
When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court. Later, however, her daughter-in-law, the Byzantine princess Theophano, turned her husband against his mother, and she was driven from court in 978; she lived partly in Italy, and partly with her brother Conrad, king of Burgundy, by whose mediation she was ultimately reconciled to her son; in 983 Otto appointed her his viceroy in Italy. However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her. When Theophano died in 991, Adelaide was restored to the regency of her grandson. She was assisted by Willigis, bishop of Mainz. In 995 Otto III came of age, and Adelaide was free to devote herself exclusively to works of charity, notably the foundation or restoration of religious houses.
Adelaide had long entertained close relations with Cluny, then the center of the movement for ecclesiastical reform, and in particular with its abbots Majolus and Odilo. She retired to the convent of Seltz near Cologne. Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer. On her way to Burgundy to support her nephew Rudolf III against a rebellion, she died at a monastery she had founded, Seltz in Alsace, on December 16, 999, days short of the millennium she thought would bring the Second Coming of Christ. She had constantly devoted herself to the service of the church and peace, and to the empire as guardian of both; she also interested herself in the conversion of the Slavs. She was thus a principal agent?almost an embodiment?of the work of the Roman Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.
Her feast day, December 16 is still kept in many German dioceses.
Born c.931,Burgundy, France
Died 999, Selta, Alsace
Canonized 1097 by Pope Urban II
Feast December 16
Attributes empress dispensing alms and food to the poor, often beside a ship
Patronage abuse victims; brides; empresses; exiles; in-law problems; parenthood; parents of large families; people in exile; princesses; prisoners; second marriages; step-parents; victims of abuse; widows.
Parents: King Rudolph II of BURGUNDY and Italy and Bertha of SWABIA.
Spouse: Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. Holy Roman Emperor Otto I and Adelaide of ITALY were married in 951 in unknown. Children were: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, Henry, Bruno, Abbess Matilda of QUEDLINBURG.
Spouse: King Lothair II of ITALY. King Lothair II of ITALY and Adelaide of ITALY were married on 12 Dec 937 in unknown. Children were: Emma.
King Bernard of ITALY was born before 810 in unknown. He died in 818 in unknown. Bernard (d.818) was the king of Italy from 810 to 817, when he was deposed by his uncle Emperor Louis the Pious, or 818, when he was killed by a traumatic blinding procedure.
Bernard was the illegitimate son of King Pepin, the third son of the Emperor Charlemagne. In 817, Louis the Pious partitioned the empire among his three sons. He gave his eldest Lothair Italy. Bernard rebelled against his uncle with the support of Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, but decided not to fight. He met with the emperor on a safe conduct guarantee, but was convicted before even realising he was on trial. Louis had Bernard blinded and imprisoned. The blinding procedure was so traumatic, he died. His death grieved Louis, and his display of penance to the court in 822 at Attigny reduced his prestige and respect amongst the Frankish nobility.
Family and children
Bernard had a son with Cunigunda, Pepin of Vermandois.
Parents: King Pippin of ITALY.
Spouse: Cunigunda. King Bernard of ITALY and Cunigunda were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Pepin of VERMANDOIS.
King Lothair II of ITALY was born between 926 and 928 in unknown. He died on 22 Nov 950 in unknown. Lothair II (926/928-November 22, 950), often Lothair of Arles, of the noble Frankish lineage descended from Boso of Provence, held the Frankish title King of Italy from 947 to 950, though he never succeeded in exercising power there. He was betrothed in 931 and married, 12 December 937, to the fifteen-year-old Adelaide, the spirited and intelligent daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy, King of Italy, as part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and his. The couple had a daughter, Emma, born as early as 948, who was married in 966 to the Carolingian Lothair of France.
Lothar's power in Italy was nominal. From the time of his successful uprising of the nobles in 945, Berengar of Ivrea, kept all real power and patronage in his hands. Lothar was perhaps poisoned by Berengar, who attempted to cement his usurped political power in Lombardy by forcing Lothar's widow to marry his son. Instead she entreated the protection of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, whom she married.
Lothar figures briefly in the vita of Adelaide written by Hroswitha of Gandersheim.
Spouse: Adelaide of ITALY. King Lothair II of ITALY and Adelaide of ITALY were married on 12 Dec 937 in unknown. Children were: Emma.
King Pippin of ITALY was born in Apr 773 in unknown. He died on 8 Jul 810 in unknown. Pippin of Italy (April, 773 - July 8, 810) was the king of Italy (781-810) as holder of the Iron Crown of Lombardy, won by his father in 774.
Pippin was the third son of Charlemagne, and the second with his wife Hildegard of Savoy. He was born Carloman, but when his brother Pippin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pippin passed to him. He was made king of Italy after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I.
He was active as ruler of Italy and worked to expand the Frankish empire. In 791, he marched a Lombard army into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia, while his father marched along the Danube into Avar territory. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt in 792. Pippin and Duke Eric of Friuli continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds. The great Ring of the Avars, their capital fortress, was taken twice. The booty was sent to Charlemagne in Aachen and redistributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia.
His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pippin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pippin died.
Family and children
He married Bertha, daughter of William of Gellone, count of Toulouse, and had five daughters with her, all of whom but the eldest were born between 800 and Pippin's death and died before their grandfather's death in 814:
Adelaide, married Duke Guy I of Spoleto
Atala
Gundrada
Bertha
Tetrada
He also had an illegitimate son Bernard. Pippin was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased him. The Italian crown passed on to his son Bernard, but the empire went to Pippin's younger brother Louis the Pious.
Parents: Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and Hildegard of SAVOY.
Spouse: Bertha. King Pippin of ITALY and Bertha were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Adelaide, Atala, Gundrada, Bertha, Tetrada.
Children were: King Bernard of ITALY.
Princess Susanne Rosala of ITALY was born in 945 in unknown. She died on 26 Jan 1003 in unknown.
Spouse: King Robert II of FRANCE. King Robert II of FRANCE and Princess Susanne Rosala of ITALY were married in 989 in unknown. They were divorced in 990.
Eystein IVARSSON was born in 788 in Nord Trondelag, Norway. He died Unknown in unknown. Eystein Glumra also called Eystein Ivarsson (born 788 in [Maer]], Nord Trondelag, Norway) was the son of Ivar Halfdan and the father of Ragnvald Eysteinsson. He was married to Ascrida Rognvaldsdatter c. 819.
Parents: Halfdan the OLD.
Spouse: Ascrida ROGNVALDSDATTER. Eystein IVARSSON and Ascrida ROGNVALDSDATTER were married in 819 in unknown. Children were: Ragnvald EYSTEINSSON.
Bathsheba IVORY was born unknown in unknown. She died unknown in unknown. Parents: Benjamin IVORY and Deborah TOBEY.
Spouse: Jonas HOLLAND. Jonas HOLLAND and Bathsheba IVORY were married on 1 Feb 1739 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Benjamin IVORY was born unknown in unknown. He died unknown in unknown.
Spouse: Deborah TOBEY. Benjamin IVORY and Deborah TOBEY were married on 20 Jan 1707 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Children were: Bathsheba IVORY, Deborah IVORY.
Deborah IVORY died on 12 Jun 1766 in unknown. She was born unknown in unknown. Parents: Benjamin IVORY and Deborah TOBEY.
Spouse: Moses PERRY. Moses PERRY and Deborah IVORY were married on 17 Feb 1743 in unknown. Children were: Ivory PERRY.
King of Italy Berengar of IVREA was born before 950 in unknown. He died in 966 in unknown. The Lombard Berengar of Ivrea (?-966), sometimes also referred to as Berengar II of Italy, was marquess of Ivrea, and became the effective King of Italy upon the withdrawal to Provence of Hugh of Arles, who left his young son Lothar as titualar king. At the death of Lothar in 950, Berengar seized the opportunity and declared himself king, with his son as co-king. He tried to legitimize his rule by forcing Adelaide, the respective daughter, daughter-in-law, and widow of the last three kings of Italy, into marriage with his son Adalbert. Adelaide's requests for intervention resulted in Otto I's invasion in 951, where Berengar was forced to pay homage to the Emperor (952). Otto, a widower, subsequently married Adelaide. Berengar was deposed by the Emperor Otto I, and Northern Italy came under direct control of the Holy Roman Empire.
Berengar continued in his position as a vassal of the Empire. Later (from 960) Berengar and his son Adalbert attacked Pope John XII, on whose appeal Otto marched into Rome and was crowned emperor (962). John's subsequent negotiations with Berengar caused Otto to depose the pope and capture and imprison Berengar in Germany (963).
His consort was Willa, the daughter of Boso, count of Arles and Avignon and margrave of Tuscany; she mistreated Adelaide when Berengar held her captive for several months in 951. The chronicler Liutprand of Cremona, raised at his court at Pavia, gives several particularly vivid accounts of Willa's character. She was held captive in a German nunnery.
Spouse: Willa. King of Italy Berengar of IVREA and Willa were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Rozala of LOMBARDY, Adalbert.
Alzetta JACKSON was born on 5 Nov 1870 in Hamilton County, Indiana. She died on 7 Nov 1953 in Elwood, Madison, Indiana.
Spouse: Julius William WOOD. Julius William WOOD and Alzetta JACKSON were married on 17 Mar 1891 in Tipton County, Indiana. Children were: Ruby WOOD, Ralph WOOD, Bonnie WOOD, Bessie WOOD, Robert WOOD, Ina WOOD, Walter WOOD, William Julius WOOD.
J. C. JACKSON was born unknown in unknown. He died unknown in unknown.
Spouse: Jane Ella SHULTZ. J. C. JACKSON and Jane Ella SHULTZ were married on 27 Sep 1891 in Bath County, Kentucky.
Jessie Mae JACKSON was born about 1884 in unknown. She died unknown in unknown.
Spouse: Chester SIGMAN. Chester SIGMAN and Jessie Mae JACKSON were married in 1905 in unknown.
John JACKSON was born unknown in unknown. He died unknown in unknown.
Spouse: Maud TIPTON. John JACKSON and Maud TIPTON were married unknown in unknown.
Joseph V. JACKSON was born about 1914 in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown.
Spouse: Minnie Ellen ACKLEY. Joseph V. JACKSON and Minnie Ellen ACKLEY were married in Feb 1934 in Los Angeles, California. Children were: Living.
Martha JACKSON was born unknown in unknown. She died unknown in unknown.
Spouse: James A. GOODPASTER. James A. GOODPASTER and Martha JACKSON were married after 1879 in unknown. Children were: Mintey GOODPASTER, Rollie GOODPASTER, Corna GOODPASTER, Robert GOODPASTER, Becham GOODPASTER, Isabell GOODPASTER.
Salina JACKSON was born unknown in unknown. She died unknown in unknown.
Spouse: Harry Murval SMITH Sr. Harry Murval SMITH Sr and Salina JACKSON were married in 1926 in unknown. Children were: Living, Living.
Anund JACOB. Parents: King Olof of SWEDEN and Estrid.
Asher ibn JACOB. Parents: King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC and Zilpah ibn JACOB.
Benjamin ibn JACOB. Parents: King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC and Rachel bint LABAN.
Dan ibn JACOB. Parents: King of Goshen, Jacob ibn ISAAC and Bilhah.
