Yahia Ben Rabbi

Yahia Ben Rabbi

Yahia Ben Rabbi, also known as Yahya Ha-Nasi, Yahya Ibn Yaish, Dom Yahia "o Negro" or Don Yahia "El Negro" (died 1222), known as Lord of "Aldeia dos Negros", Portugal - _en. Village of the Blacks), and said to be a direct descendent of the Exilarchs of Babylon, was the eponymous ancestor of the "Ibn Yahya" Family. He resided in Lisbon and was held in high esteem among the Jews as well as by King Afonso I of Portugal who honored him for his courage and presented him with an estate that had belonged to the Moors, wherefore he assumed the nickname "Negro". He was the son of Yaish Ibn Yahya (died 1196); grandson of (C)Hiyya Al-Daudi (died 1154), who was a prominent Rabbi, composer and poet, and served as Advisor to Portugal's first King Afonso I; great-grandson of David, the son of Hizkiya, the son of David, the son of Zakkai, the son of Avraham, the son of Nathan, the son of David, a Rabbi, whose father was Hazub. [http://www.angelfire.com/ego/et_deo/davidicdynasty.wps.htm]

By his wife had five sons:
* Yaish Ben (Ibn) Yahya, the father of three sons, namely, Yosef (Jucef), Shlomo (fl 1255), and Moshe (died 1279), had issue
* Yakov Ben Yahya, the father of Hiyya, the father of Eli
* Yosef Ben (Ibn) Yahya (died 1264), the father of Shlomo Ha-Zaken (died 1299), the father of three sons, who were: Yosef (Jucef), Gedaliah (the father of David, Dan(iel) Ha-Rav and Paloma, mistress of Fadrique Alfonso of Castile), and Hiyya
* Yehuda (Judah) "Sar" Ben Yahya, father of Yahya (father of Yakov, father of Hiyya) and Yosef
* Yahya Ben Yahya, father of Shlomo (father of Yosef) and Bakr Ben Yahya

Yahia Ben Rabbi's family tree

References

External links

* [http://www.davidicdynasty.org/ Dedicated to uniting the Jewish descendants of King David]
* [http://www.heymannfamily.com/web/HeymannGed4Web/f_1297.html Genealogy of Yahia Ben Rabbi]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ego/et_deo/davidicdynasty.wps.htm Genealogy of the Davidic Dynasty] or mirror site [http://www.members.aol.com/rdavidh218/davidicdynasty.html Genealogy of the Davidic Dynasty]


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