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The Patricians: Galamh mac Bile "Míl Espáine" (1853 - 1806 BC) - King of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile and Portugal, Primogenitor of High Kings of Ireland and British-European Royalty, Father of the Irish Race - Author's 101st Great Grandfather

Shield of Milesius as adopted by King Henry I Beauclerc (1068 - 1135) after his marriage to Milesian heiress Princess Matilda of Scotland (1080 - 1118)

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Spanish-born descendant of Niul Nemnach of Egypt, Milesius realized legendary status in Spain and Egypt during his lifetime. Beginning with his killing three lions one morning during a sojourn through north Africa in his youth, his herculean success as a military leader thereafter gave him an almost godlike reputation with the Spanish people of his era. After he expelled barbarians and other undesirables from Iberia and Egypt, Egyptians and Spaniards alike simply referred to him as Míl Espáine (Hero of Spain). He was so beloved by Egyptian Pharaoh Nechonibus that he gave Mil his daughter's hand in marriage.

But there was not to be a happy ending for Mil. In his final days, the age-old prophesy handed down to him from his ancestors drew him to a spiritual quest to seek out and conquer the Isle of Destiny (present-day Ireland). After his wife Tea Tephi and his brother claimed to have espied the isle from the top of Tower of Breogan (now called the Tower of Hercules), he ordered them and his sons to sail there to reconnoiter the surroundings. Initially well-received upon arrival after first landing on Scottish shores, his brother was later slain by Tuatha Dé Danann rulers after they rightly suspected their motive for being there in the first place.

Scota returned to Spain with the body of her brother-in-law to find her husband had died. She returned to Ireland with her sons to exact revenge. Scota (eponym of Scotland) perished during the ensuing battle in which the Milesians defeated and eventually conquered the Tuatha Dé Danan. Her son Eber Finn was the first High King of Ireland. Her son Ir, who perished during the initial stages of the battle, is the eponym of Ireland.

A World Heritage Site since 2009, the Tower of Hercules is an official National Monument of Spain. There's a legend that it was the place where Hercules slew the giant Geryon in a titanic hand-to-hand battle that lasted for three days. Afterward, he buried the giant's skull and bones there. Centuries later Breogan, Mil's grandfather, erected a tower over the grave to provide him with a view of the great expanse of the ocean toward the fabled Isle of Desinty. The Romans rebuilt (or built a facsimile thereof) tower during the first century A.D. during the time of Roman Emperor Trajan.

The Milesian coat of arms represents the three lions Mil slew one morning during a sojourn through northern Africa in his youth. This is perhaps the oldest extant royal coat of arms in human history. The British Sovereign's coat of arms is quartered by two Shields of Míl Espáine, one Harp of David, and one Shield of Scotland (which represents one of the lions).

Mil was a direct descendant of Scythian King Fóenius Farsaid mac Glúnfhind. He created the first Gaelic alphabet and language (also credited with founding Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages by modern scholars). One of the builders of Nimrod's Tower of Babel, he studied languages there until its collapse. His son Niul spoke 72 languages. Niul utilized the expertise to gain a ministerial position as a language interpreter and adviser to Egyptian Pharaoh Cinqueris. He was so favored the pharaoh later gave him his daughter's hand in marriage. He later named the Nile River after him, according to traditional Irish mythology.

Mil was a contemporary of Solomon ben David.

One of Mil's most famous descendants was Niall Mor Noígíallach of the Nine Hostages (380 - 454), the 126th High King of Ireland. Niall conquered most of Britain and western France. During one of his campaigns, he captured and enslaved a boy who was destined to become the patron saint of Ireland - viz. St Patrick.

According to Irish mythology, Scythian Nemedius Machta, Galamh's and Niul's distant cousin, reached the shores of Ireland nearly 700 years before Galamh's wife Scota and their sons sailed there. He and 3,000 of his clan perished from the plague nine years later. Those remaining of the clan members spent most of the next two centuries enslaved by Fomorians, a semi-divine race whom the Nemedians encountered and battled against from the time their arrival in Ireland. Most of the Nemedians perished by a tidal wave during their uprising against the Formorians. Most of the survivors of the calamity left Ireland, according to the myth, to resettle as separate groups in either Wales or Greece. According to Nemed's FAB PEDIGREE, a number of Nemedians that remained mated with Formorians, whose offspring later mated with Tuatha Dé Danann. Their offspring would later procreate with Galamh's Irish High King descendants. Given this plausible mythological genealogy, Nemed may well be considered the very first High King of Ireland.

Galamh mac Bile "Míl Espáine"
Birth 1773 in Brigantia, Corunna, Galicia, Spain
Death 1699 in Braganza, Iberia, Spain

DIRECT DESCENDANTS THROUGH Niall Noígíallach of the Nine Hostages

31st cousin 54x removed DARDANI-ASGARD-WESSEX-MERCIA-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

41st cousin 67x removed JUDAH-DARDANI-COELING-BRETAGNE-COURNOUAILLE-PORHOET-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

42nd cousin 87x removed JUDAH-DARDANI-TROIS-SICAMBRI-EAST FRANKS-MEROVING-FERREOLI-PERRACY-VEXIN-CHAUMONT-SINCLAIR-PAINE-TRIPP-OUTWATER-COLLINS http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

50th great grandfather of husband of 1st cousin 53x removed SAXONS-WESSEX-MERCIA-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

46th great grandfather of husband of 57th great grand aunt COELING-STRATHCLYDE-PICTS-VERE-WARREN-HOLLAND-SIMMONS-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE http://fabpedigree.com/s028/f146145.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADl...