eponymous ancestor in a sentence

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1. He is seen as an eponymous ancestor of the Ingvaeones / Ingaevones, a people mentioned by Tacitus in his " Germania " as one of the three divisions of the Germanic tribes.
2. There are other lineages, such as the Agnivanshi, in which an eponymous ancestor rises out of Agni ( fire ), and Nagavanshi ( snake-born ), claiming descent from the N
   
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3. .. . that according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of "'Clan McCorquodale "'was awarded lands for recovering the Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?
4. The eponymous ancestor of the Scottish Clann Lachlainn, traditionally regarded as yet another branch of the U?N�ill, was a much later man who bore a form of the name " Lachlan ".
5. They had a son, Go�del Glas, the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels, who created the Gaelic language by combining the best features of the 72 languages then in existence ( see also Geoffrey Keating ).
6. The U?Chr�t�in, a clerical dynasty who claimed collateral descent from L�egaire, ruled his house between the mid-9th century and 978, and asserted that their eponymous ancestor Cr�t�n was R�n�n's grandfather.
7. As the eponymous ancestor of the U?Failge he may be associated with Rus Failge, the son of the high king of Ireland, Cathair M�r, said to have lived in the early 2 cd century.
8. "' Gillean of the Battle Axe "', or "'Gilleain na Tuaighe "'in Scottish Gaelic, was the eponymous ancestor of Clan Maclean and Clan Maclaine of Lochbuie.
9. It was Ruaidhr?s generation & mdash; the second generation in descent from Ruaidhr?mac Raghnaill & mdash; that members of Clann Ruaidhr?are first identified with a family name derived from this eponymous ancestor.
10. Creoda is recorded by the Mercian pedigree in the " Anglian collection " as having been the son of Cynewald and the great-grandson of Icel, the eponymous ancestor of his family, the Iclingas.