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"Isumbras" is of French and [[Anglo-Saxon]] origin and means "iron-arm". It comes from the French ''bras'' meaning "arm", and the Anglo-Saxon and Middle High German word ''isen'' which means "iron" (c.f. [[Isengard]] and the modern German word, ''Eisen''). | "Isumbras" is of French and [[Old English|Anglo-Saxon]] origin and means "iron-arm". It comes from the French ''bras'' meaning "arm", and the Anglo-Saxon and Middle High German word ''isen'' which means "iron" (c.f. [[Isengard]] and the modern German word, ''Eisen''). | ||
[[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] undoubtedly got the name from Sir Isumbras, an English medieval romance about a man who suffers a lifetime of hardship but who finds happiness in his latter years. The name may a nod towards the fact Isumbras IV didn't become [[Thain]] until he was ninety-two, although internally he may have been named after one of the earllier Isumbrases. | [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] undoubtedly got the name from Sir Isumbras, an English medieval romance about a man who suffers a lifetime of hardship but who finds happiness in his latter years. The name may a nod towards the fact Isumbras IV didn't become [[Thain]] until he was ninety-two, although internally he may have been named after one of the earllier Isumbrases. |
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Isumbras Took IV | |
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Hobbit | |
Biographical Information | |
Location | Great Smials, Tuckborough |
Birth | S.R. 1238 |
Death | S.R. 1339 |
Family | |
Parentage | Gerontius Took Adamanta Chubb |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Isumbras Took IV (born in S.R. 1238) was the third child of Gerontius, the Old Took and Adamanta Chubb and he succeeded to the Thainship at the age of ninety-two in S.R. 1330 after the death of his eldest brother, Isengrim III.
The Old Took lived to an old age of 130, a record in Hobbit history, and was Thain for seventy-two of those years. Because of this, Isengrim III didn't inherit the title until he was eighty-eight in S.R. 1320 and reigned for only ten years.
Isengrim III left no heir - and as far as we know, never married - so the Thainship passed to Isumbras IV who became the 28th Thain of The Shire and 16th in the Took line. Due to Isumbras's old age he only reigned for nine years, dying at the age of 101 in S.R. 1339; he was succeeded by his son, Fortinbras.
Genealogy
Fortinbras I 1145 - 1248 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Old Took 1190 - 1320 | Adamanta Chubb unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Isengrim III 1232 - 1330 | Hildigard (died young) | ISUMBRAS IV 1238 - 1339 | 9 children | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lalia Clayhanger 1283 - 1402 | Fortinbras II 1278 - 1380 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ferumbras III 1316 - 1415 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Etymology
"Isumbras" is of French and Anglo-Saxon origin and means "iron-arm". It comes from the French bras meaning "arm", and the Anglo-Saxon and Middle High German word isen which means "iron" (c.f. Isengard and the modern German word, Eisen).
Tolkien undoubtedly got the name from Sir Isumbras, an English medieval romance about a man who suffers a lifetime of hardship but who finds happiness in his latter years. The name may a nod towards the fact Isumbras IV didn't become Thain until he was ninety-two, although internally he may have been named after one of the earllier Isumbrases.
Titles
Preceded by: Isengrim Took III |
28th Thain of The Shire S.R. 1330 - 1339 |
Followed by: Fortinbras Took II |