Yahia Ben Rabbi
Yahia Ben Rabbi, also known as Yahya Ha-Nasi, Yahya Ibn Yaish, Dom Yahia "o Negro" (born c. 1150,[1] died 1222, known as Lord of Aldeia dos Negros, Portugal - English: 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 (born c. 1120 or 1130,[2] died 1196) and grandson of Hiyya al-Daudi (born c. 1080 or 1090,[3] died 1154), who was a prominent Rabbi, composer and poet, and served as Advisor to Portugal's first King Afonso I.
He had five sons by his wife:
- 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 (born c. 1210,[4] died 1264), the father of Shlomo Ha-Zaken (died 1299 [5]), the father of three sons, who were: Yosef (Jucef), Gedaliah (the father of David, Dan(iel) Ha-Rav and Yonah, called Paloma in Spanish, mistress of Fadrique Alfonso, Lord of Haro), and Hiyya
- Yehuda (Judah) "Sar" Ben Yahya, father of Yahya (father of Yakov, father of Hiyya) and Yosef
- Yahia Ben Yahi, father of Shlomo, Joseph and Bakr Ben Yahya
References
- ↑ http://www.mpjh.org/People.html
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/jdischefamilienf1111gese#page/n424/mode/1up
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/jdischefamilienf1111gese#page/n424/mode/1up
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/jdischefamilienf1111gese#page/n424/mode/1up
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/jdischefamilienf1111gese#page/n424/mode/1up