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Oberon

King of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature

A life on the record,
dated by its sources.

Roles, not beliefs

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Life

One office on record

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

  1. Dates unrecorded king

Family

The family of Oberon

Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.

Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.

As the accounts tell it
The family as a list · 1

Kinship in an account 1

What this means

Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.

Does not imply marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Texts

In the texts

Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.

Later works

Later works that name Oberon

Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not sources for the life.

What this means

Sorted out of the texts by each work’s own recorded date on the source clock, and by its record not marking it as a religious text: the split is worked out here, not stated by any source. A religious text of any date stays among the texts.

Computed

Connections

How Oberon connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Identification 2

What this means

One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.

Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

8 statements on this record

  • 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

After Lysippos · Public domain

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