Rav Abba Family Tree

Thanks to David H. KELLEY and Alisa SHARON alisa_Sharon at yahoo.com for information on this page.

Jehuda from Lombardy (b. 635) had a son Kolonimus (b. 685).

Kolonimus from Italy had a son Mushulam (b. 720).

Mushulam the great from Luka, Italy had a son also called Kolonimus (b. 765).

This Kolonimus, Gaon from Luka, Italy had a son Moshe HAZAKEN (b. 810).

Moshe the Elder of Luka had a son called Kononimus of Luka (b. 855).

This Kolonimus of Luka had a son Meshulam (b. 900).

R. Mushulam the great had a son Abun (b. 935).

Rabana Abun (Abba), the Great Prince of Le Mans, Prince of the House of David had children:

R. Joshua
- R. Isaac
  - R. Eleazar the Great
    - Isaac
      - Kalonymos, from Mainz to Speyer (b. 1096, d. 1127)
R. Isaac the great, b. 955 (at the time of Seadya Gaon)
- Shimon b. 975 a great poet
  - Joseph (b. 995 France)
    - R. Simeon the Great of Mainz. (According to David H. Kelley, R. Simeon was the son of R. Isaac.)
    - daughter (b. 1015) married Isaac, parents of RASHI
  - Elchanan, according to the legend was kidnapped to Christianity and was a pope.

R. Abun described above, may be one and the same person as R. Abun, Head of the Yeshiva of Narbonne, whose son was:

R. Moses (Narbonne)
- R. Jacob, Prophet, Gaon
  - R. Moses, ha Darshan.
    - R. Judah, ha-Darshan.
  - R. LEVI