He was the great-grandfather of Abraham Yehoshua Heschel of Cracow, and the ancestor of the Noda B'Yehuda Rabbi Yechezkel Landau of Prague. His parents were R' Shmuel Judah Katzenellenbogen and Abigail. His son was the MaHaRaSH, Rabbi Meir Wahl Katzenellenbogen. Shaul died in 1617, Brest Litovsk.


*AN INTERESTING NOTE: One day during the summer of 2000, a Rabbinical leader in the United States stood at a ground breaking ceremony for a yeshiva to be built in New York. He opened a very old and rare siddur. This siddur once belonged to R' Shaul Wahl Katzenellenbogen.
(This fascinating piece of information was published by the Jewish Press in an article titled: Machberes)

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CHILDREN:

1) R' MEIR WAHL KATZENELLENBOGEN - He was the direct ancestor of the Noda B'Yehuda, Rabbi Yechezkel Landau. Meir was known as the MaHaRash. An interesting note: Meir was the grandfather of the famous Abraham Yehoshua Heschel, and his brother Juda Wahl was the grandfather of the wife (Dina Wahl) of Abraham Yehoshua Heschel. This meant that the two second cousins married. Meir married in 1585 to Heinda Horowitz of Cracow. The following information concerns Heinda's distinguished lineage: She was the niece of the REMA, Rabbi Moshe Isserlis. Heinda's father was Rabbi Pinchus Horowitz (1535 Prague - 1618), and her mother was Miriam Baila Isserlis (died 1617) a sister of the Rema, and the daughter of R' Yisorel Isserlin (spelled this way for some reason) of Cracow. Heinda's paternal grandparents were R' Yisroel Horowitz (1500- 1572 Prague), and Ortilla Stern (1507 - 1572 Prague). Heinda's paternal great-grandparents were R' Aaron Meshulim Zalman Horowitz (1470 - 1545 Prague), and Necham Munk (1486 - 1536). Heinda's paternal great-great-grandparents were R' Isiah HaLevi Horowitz (1465 Horowice, Czech - 1517 Prague), and Rivka Yomtov Heller (died 1515 Prague).

2) R' ABRAHAM - Rabbi in Lwow.


Sources:
Book titled: "MOFOS HADOR" by Yekusiel A. Kamelhar, 1803.
Book titled: "UNBROKEN CHAIN"
Book titled: "ZION HAMITZUYENET" published in Prague in 1993 in commemmoration of 200th Yarzeit of the Noda B'Yehuda. The book cites numerous sources including data acquired through letters of Noda B'Yehuda and his children.
Internet sites or databases: Jewish Gen; Ancestry; Family History Center;