Home
Surname List
Name Index
Email Us
Medan. Parents: Abraham of GENESIS and Keturah.


Meinhard was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in Unknown(died young). Parents: King Albert I of GERMANY and Elisabeth.


Melka.

Spouse: King Serug of UR and Agade. Children were: King Nahor of UR and Agade, De UR.


Mencia died in 1106. Parents: King Garcia V of NAVARRE and Estefanía DE FOIX.


Meshullam. Parents: Heir of the Davidic Dynasty, Zorobabel HA-DAVID and Princess Esther HA-DAVID.


Methusaleh was born 3317 B.C. in unknown. He died 2348 B.C. in unknown. Methuselah or Metushélach ("Man of the dart", or alternatively "when he dies, it shall be sent") was the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He reportedly reached the age of 969 years. According to the Book of Genesis 5:27: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Methuselah in Genesis
He is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech (father of Noah), whom he fathered at the age of 187. His name has become a general synonym for any living creature of great age. A close reading of the dates in the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah is said to have died in the year of the Great Flood, but the Bible does not indicate if the cause of his death was by drowning. Some have interpreted his name as a prophecy: when he dies, the Flood will come. In that case, the long life has an allegorical dimension, showing that God withheld judgment on mankind for a very long time.

Parents: Enoch and Edna.

Spouse: Edna. Children were: Lamech(Lemekh), Eliakim, Rake'el.


Michael was born in 955 in Esztergom. He died about 978 in unknown. Parents: Ruling Prince Taksony of HUNGARY.

Children were: Vazul.


Michal. Michal was a daughter of King Saul in the Old Testament, who loved and married David. Their story is recorded in the Book of Samuel. In I Samuel chapter 19, she chooses the welfare of her husband over the wishes of her father. When Saul's messengers are searching for David in order to kill him, Michal secretly sends David away while pretending he is ill and laid up in bed. Whilst David is hiding for his life, Saul gives Michal as a wife to Phaltiel (also called Phalti) son of Laish, who gives her five sons, and David takes several other wives including Abigail.

Despite an apparent prohibition in Deuteronomy 24:1-4 on re-establishing a marriage with a previous spouse who has subsequently remarried, David does however ask for Michal after he is crowned in Judah following Saul's death. Phaltiel follows her weeping but is powerless to prevent her from leaving him.

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, 'Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.'
And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, 'Go, return.' and he returned.
(II Samuel 3:14-16, King James Version)
In II Samuel 6, Michal comes to despise David because he dances, partially unclothed in public, before the Lord in a religious procession. While the entire house of Israel was involved in the event of bringing the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem, Michal watched from the window. The story implies that Michal thinks this activity is beneath a king, and would cause him to lose the respect of his subjects. The account is linked in the narrative with her inability to have any more children for the rest of her life.

David would be succeeded by Solomon, a son of Bathsheba.


Spouse: King David of JUDAH and Israel. Children were: Nathan HA-DAVID, Shephatiah, Crown Prince Abishalom of JUDAH and Israel.


Milchah. Parents: Haran.

Spouse: Nahor the ARAMEAN. Children were: Bethuel.


Mstislav. Parents: Grand Prince Vladimir I of KIEV and Rogneda of POLOTSK.


Mu'ak.

Spouse: King Shelah of Chaldea of BABYLON. Children were: King Eber ign Shelah of BABYLON.


Mualeleth. Parents: Enosh and Noam.

Spouse: Cainan. Children were: Mahalalel, Rashujal.


Muireadhach. 2nd husband of Erca.

Parents: 1st King Eoghan of AILECH.

Spouse: Earca ingen LOAIRN. Children were: 131st Monarch Mortough of IRELAND, Olchu.


Muirion.

Spouse: 122nd Monarch Muireadhach Tireach of IRELAND. Children were: 124th Monarch Eochaid of IRELAND.


Munia. Parents: King Sancho I of PAMPLONA and Toda of NAVARRE.


Muriel. Parents: Count Roger I of SICILY and Eremburga of MORTAIN.


Muriel was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Tancred of HAUTEVILLE. Tancred of HAUTEVILLE and Muriel were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Count William Iron Arm of APULIA, Count Drogo of APULIA, Count Humphrey of APULIA, Count Geoffrey of LORITELLO, Lord Serlo of HAUTEVILLE.


Nathan. Parents: King David of JUDAH and Israel and Bathsheba.


Nepheg was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown. Parents: King David of JUDAH and Israel.


Nethnal. Parents: Jesse ben OBED and Abala.


Niall died on 17 Oct 1346 in The Battle of Durham. Parents: King Robert I of SCOTLAND.


Ninoslav. Parents: Bosnian Ban, Stephen I KOTROMAN and Jelisaveta.


Noah was born abt 2948 B.C. in unknown. He died abt 1998 B.C. in unknown. Noah or Noach ("Rest"), was the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs, best known for the Deluge which came in his time. His story is contained in the Hebrew Bible's book of Genesis, chapters 5-9.

While the Deluge and Noah's Ark are the best-known element of the story of Noah, he is also mentioned as the "first husbandman" and the inventor of wine, as well as in connection with the somewhat mysterious episode of his drunkenness and the subsequent Curse of Ham. Some analyses of the text of the story have suggested that its present form combines two originally separate sources, possibly relating to two separate stories, and that it contains elements of earlier Mesopotamian mythology, although both of these points are disputed and controversial.

The story of Noah was the subject of much elaboration in the later Abrahamic traditions, and was immensely influential in Western culture.

This is the story of Noah according to chapters 5-9 of the book of Genesis.

Noah was the son of Lamech, and the tenth generation after Adam. "And [Lamech] called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground which the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands." From Noah's sons, Shem, Japheth and Ham, all the peoples of the world would be descended.[1]

When Noah was six hundred years old, God decided to send a great flood to destroy all life, for He was angered at the wickedness of man. But He saw that Noah was a righteous man, and warned him to build a vessel for himself and his family, "and of every living thing of all flesh ... so that life might yet be saved."[2] And so the Flood came, and all life was extinguished, except for those who were with Noah, "and the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days."[3] "But God remembered Noah," the waters receded, and the Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Noah's first burnt offering after the Flood - relief in Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc.There Noah built an altar to God (the first altar mentioned in the Bible) and made an offering. "And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odour, the Lord said in his heart, 'I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease'."[4]

Then God made a covenant: Noah and his descendants would henceforth be free to eat meat ("every moving thing that lives shall be food for you, and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything"), and the animals would fear man; and in return, man would be forbidden to eat "flesh with its life, that is, its blood." And God forbade murder, and gave a commandment: "Be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it." And as a sign of His covenant, He set the rainbow in the sky, "the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."[5]

The story of Noah concludes: "Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard; and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent." Noah's son Ham saw his father naked and informed his brothers, who covered Noah while averting their eyes. Noah awoke and cursed Ham's son Canaan with eternal slavery, while giving his blessing to Shem and Japheth: "Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."[6]

Noah died 350 years after the Flood, at the age of 950,[7] the last of the immensely long-lived antediluvian Patriarchs.

In Christian tradition

The Drunkenness of Noah, Michelangelo Buonarroti, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican, Rome, 1509. Michelangelo shows Noah drunk before his sons, and simultaneously, in the background, Noah planting his vineyard.The New Testament treats Noah as a righteous man in the same category as Abraham and Jacob, one who had absolute faith in God. The Gospel of Matthew, for example, reads: "For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah; for as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, they were marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark" (Matt 24:37-38). According to the First Epistle of Peter 3:18?20 and the Second Epistle of Peter 2:5, an interval of 120 years elapsed while the ark was being built, during which Noah tried to convince the people to repent so they could avoid the wrath of God. In later Christian thought, the Ark came to be equated with the Church: salvation was to be found only within its walls. (See, for example, St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), who demonstrated in The City of God that the dimensions of the Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which is the body of Christ, which is the Church. The equation of Ark and Church is still found in the Anglican rite of baptism, which asks God, "who of thy great mercy didst save Noah," to receive into the Church the infant about to be baptised).

Noah's three sons were generally interpreted in medieval Christianity as the founders of the populations of the three known continents, Japheth/Europe, Shem/Asia, and Ham/Africa, although a rarer variation held that they represented the three classes of medieval society - the priests (Shem), the warriors (Japheth), and the peasants (Ham). At the same time, some European thinkers proposed that Ham's sons in general had been literally "blackened" by sin. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this view merged with the Protestant interpretation of the curse of Ham to provide a quasi-religious justification for slavery. As late as 1964, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia read the text of the Noah story into the Congressional Record as part of a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying, "Noah saw fit to discriminate against Ham's descendants."

Parents: Lamech(Lemekh) and Betenos.

Spouse: Emzara. Children were: Shem, Japhet, Ham.


Noam. Parents: Seth and Azura.

Spouse: Enosh. Children were: Cainan, Mualeleth, Barakiel.


Nogah. Parents: King David of JUDAH and Israel.


Nunila. Parents: King Inig I of PAMPLONA and Oneca VELAZQUEZ.


Ocem. Parents: Jesse ben OBED and Abala.


Oda was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Duke Boleslaw I the Brave of BOHEMIA. Duke Boleslaw I the Brave of BOHEMIA and Oda were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Matylda.


Oda died on 17 May 913 in unknown. She was born Unknown in unknown. Parents: Frankish Prince Billung and Aeda.

Spouse: Duke Liudolf of SAXONY. Duke Liudolf of SAXONY and Oda were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Duke Otto I of SAXONY, Hathumod, Brun.


Odo was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Duke Herman of SAXONY. Duke Herman of SAXONY and Odo were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Duke Bernard I of SAXONY, Liudger, Suanehild, Abbess Imma of HERFORD.


Oengus. Parents: 131st Monarch Mortough of IRELAND.


Ogyek was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Emese. Ogyek and Emese were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Almos.


Olaf was born in 1450 in unknown. He died in 1451 in unknown. Parents: King Christian I of DENMARK Norway and Sweden and Dorothea of BRANDENBURG.


Olchu. Parents: Muireadhach and Earca ingen LOAIRN.


Olga was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Grand Duke Gediminas of LITHUANIA. Grand Duke Gediminas of LITHUANIA and Olga were married Unknown in unknown.


Olgimunt was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown. Parents: Grand Prince Pukuwer of LITHUANIA.


Onan. Parents: King of Goshen, Judah ibn JACOB and Daughter of the Canaanite SHUAH.

Spouse: Tamar.


Oneca. Parents: King Sancho I of PAMPLONA and Toda of NAVARRE.


Oneca was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Inigo JIMENEZ. Inigo JIMENEZ and Oneca were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: King Inig I of PAMPLONA, García JIMENEZ.

Spouse: Musa ibn Musa ibn FORTÚN. Musa ibn Musa ibn FORTÚN and Oneca were married Unknown in unknown.


Orbita was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown. Parents: King Sancho I of PAMPLONA and Toda of NAVARRE.


Oria was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: King Garcia I of PAMPLONA. King Garcia I of PAMPLONA and Oria were married in 858 in unknown.


Osburga was born in 810 in unknown. She died in 855 in unknown. Osburga (810 - 855) was the first wife of Aethelwulf of Wessex. Her father was Oslac of the Isle of Wight, Grand Butler Of England.

She was mother to four English Kings, Ethelbald of Wessex, Ethelbert of Wessex, Ethelred of Wessex and Alfred the Great.


Parents: Grand Butler Oslac of ENGLAND.

Spouse: King Ethelwulf of WESSEX. King Ethelwulf of WESSEX and Osburga were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: King Alfred the Great of ENGLAND, King Ethelbald of WESSEX, Ethelbert of WESSEX, King Ethelred of WESSEX.


Othelindis died on 9 Mar 1044. Parents: Duke Bernard I of SAXONY and Hildegard.


Othilde was born Unknown in unknown. She died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Count Dirk V of HOLLAND. Count Dirk V of HOLLAND and Othilde were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Count Floris II of HOLLAND.


Otto was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown. Parents: Duke of Franks and Count of Paris Hugh the GREAT and Hedwige of SAXONY.


Otto was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown. Parents: Henry and Daughter of Ernest of SAXONY.


Otto died in 1047. Parents: Count Palatine Ezzo of LOTHARINGIA and Mathilde of SAXONY.


Otto died before 1215 in unknown. He was born Unknown in unknown. Parents: Margrave Dietrich of MEISSEN and Jutta of THURINGIA.


Otto was born on 23 Jul 1301 in Vienna. He died on 26 Feb 1339 in Vienna. Parents: King Albert I of GERMANY and Elisabeth.


Otto Henry was born Unknown in unknown. He died Unknown in unknown.

Spouse: Matilda of CHALON. Otto Henry and Matilda of CHALON were married Unknown in unknown. Children were: Duke Otto William of BURGUNDY.

Back       Next