Isumbras Took IV
Isumbras Took IV | |
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Hobbit | |
Biographical Information | |
Location | Great Smials |
Birth | S.R. 1238 |
Death | S.R. 1339 |
Family | |
Parentage | Gerontius Took Adamanta Chubb |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Isumbras Took III (born in S.R. 1238) was the third child of Gerontius Took (the Old Took) and Adamanta Chubb and succeeded to the Thainship at the age of ninety-two in S.R. 1330 after the death of his brother, Isengrim III.
The Old Took lived to an old age of 130, a record in Hobbit history, and was Thain for seventy-two 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 left no heir - and as far as we know, never married - so the Thainship passed to Isumbras IV. 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 II 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 |