Kalonymus "Maestro Calo" ben Meir ben Kalonymus - What Am I Missing?

Started by Private User on Monday, December 20, 2021
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Private User
12/20/2021 at 7:50 PM

How can Kalonymus ben Meir ben Kalonymus be the son of Shmuel ben Avraham ben Shmuel?

12/20/2021 at 10:41 PM

Good question. I have no idea.

Private User
12/21/2021 at 8:41 AM

Thanks for the reference. The Yehuda described there dies in 1196, which means he could not be the son of Maestro Calo (1286-1328). I don't know what may have caused the confusion, perhaps the notion that all Kalonymuses, which is just a common given name, must be descendants of the Meshulam HaGadol Kalonymus. I don't see any reason to preserve the connection between Maestro Calo and Shmuel ben Abraham BTW allow me to thank you for the thankless job of patrolling so many profiles.

12/23/2021 at 3:31 PM

If you wan to help me clean up the mess, I could use your help. We need to have some reasonable source (not a fantasy tree) for each profile.

Private User
12/24/2021 at 8:50 AM

I'd be glad to help. I don't have any sources for these profiles apart from what is generally available online: https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9173-kalonymus-ben-kalo... and https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transc.... I don't know whether his father was Kalonymos(?!) ben Meir. I have seen no sources for a Shmuel ben Abraham. Considering the non-matching patronymic and the absence of source for Shmuel ben Avraham, and the distance in time and geography between Shmuel bca 1215 in Regensburg and Maestro Calo bca 1286 in Arles, I have simply detached Maestro Calo from Shmuel on my offline tree. I think that would be a reasonable and non-complicated thing to do here. If later on someone comes up with evidence to the contrary it would be a snap to re-connect them.

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