NOT Maharal's Gt.gt.gd.father? יהודה בן בצלאל {או בן יצחק} Loew, The Elder

According to old literature, Yehuda LOEW (Liwa) ben Bezalel (Hazaken or Hamephursam) died 1440 in Worms or in 1439 in Prague. New research on the grave in Prague states the year to be 1539 and not 1439, as previously documented by Rabbi Meir Perels. As such - he could not have been an ancestor of the Maharal. Chaim (Keith) Freedman published an article claiming the same. http://chfreedman.blogspot.com/2007/06/maharal-of-pragues-descent-f...

His tombstone in Prague reads (as quoted below):

Yehudah was known as: "Liva The Elder of Prague" and was the head of a Yeshiva in Worms.

Alternatively according to some manuscripts, Yehuda Lev Hazaken is the son of Isaac son of Bezalel Hazaken.

Chaim (Keith) Freedman published an article claiming that according to his research, http://chfreedman.blogspot.com/search/label/Maharal%20of%20Prague%2... Yehuda Hazaken was not an ancestor of the Maharal

The name Liwa, which frequently appeared in the Worms area, is generally pronounced "Liwa" although originally it either stood for the German "Loewe" (lion), the heraldic sign of the tribe of Yehudah, or for the German-Jewish "Loew". Yehuda had a son Bezalel ben Yehuda LOEW.

מוהר״ר יהודא ליוואי. וזאת ליהודה, לתורה ולתעודה. חכם הרזים, עוקר הרים וארזים. בקי בש״ס התלמוד. ולא נמצא כמותו בכל חעולם בחריפות ובקיאות. ובזכרון. והוא מגזע הגאונים חמיוחסים לאדונינו דוד בן ישי. ושאר התוארים הכתובים עליו לא רציתי להעתיק. ונתבקש בישיבה של מעלת שנת חמשת אלפים ומאתים ליצירה. ועד היום המצבה הנ״ל בק״ק פראג בבה״ח