Rabbeinu Gershom ben Yehudah Me'Or Hagolah - Identity of Rabbenu Gershom's father

Also, most sources place R Gershom's birth in Mainz.

Some minor biographical details can be found here: https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transc...

Does not correspond to the genealogy listed here.

Correct, Jeremy. The pedigree is made up. I hope admins will fix this.

That's a polite way of saying it. :)

To be more blunt, it was fabricated by someone who's been fabricating Geni profiles and medieval/ancient Jewish pedigrees on Wikipedia for years and passing himself off as an expert.

I'm not sure all of his mess was fabricated by him.

I think he copied a lot of material out of Arthur J. Zuckerman's largely discredited book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Jewish_Princedom_in_Feudal_France

Ugh. The rot has spread to the wikipedia article on R Gershom as well now.

The sources I'm looking at all say that there's very little biographical detail of his life at all.

* https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transc...

* https://biography.yourdictionary.com/gershom-ben-judah

* http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6615-gershom-ben-judah

Private User Joshua Lipson I agree with you both. Isaac the Jew's, ancestry is incredibly dubious at best. I fixed several Wikipedia pages and the Geni profile for his father, see [Rabbi Judah of Narbonne Judah of Narbonne]

Yasher Koach, Private User!