My Ancestries as the Seed of David through Makhir of Narbonne to Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
Phase 1: The Biblical & Babylonian Exilarch Line King David (King of Israel and Judah) ↳ King Solomon ↳ (Through the Kings of Judah down to the Babylonian Exile) ↳ Jeconiah / Jehoiachin (Last reigning King of Judah, taken to Babylon) ↳ Pedaiah ↳ Zerubbabel (Governor of Judea, c. 520 BCE) Bostanai (c. 618–670), Exilarch of Babylon ↳ Haninai Bar Adai (Exilarch) ↳ Shahrijar (or Solomon) ↳ Natronai ben Habibai (Exilarch) — In legend, he is forced out of Babylon and travels to the West. ↳ Makhir of Narbonne (Theodoric I, Count of Toulouse) — The Core Mythological Bridge. Speculative theories claim Makhir was a Babylonian Exilarch given land by Pepin the Short or Charlemagne. Myth-makers conflate him with the Frankish nobleman Theodoric, creating a hybrid Jewish-Frankish royal line. Phase 2: The House of Toulouse to the Kings of Castile (France to Spain) Once the lineage is attached to the Counts of Toulouse, it follows standard, historically documented European lines—though ...