When Jerusalem fell to Babylon, the direct male line of David's royal house was cut off. The prophet Jeremiah, fleeing to Egypt, was entrusted with King Zedekiah's daughters. Their story reveals the healing of the ancient breach between the two sons of Judah, Pharez and Zerah. In 569 BC, Jeremiah arrived in Ireland with an Eastern king's daughter named Tea Tephi, a daughter of King Zedekiah. Accompanying them was a prince, the son of the King of Ireland, who had married Tea Tephi shortly after Jerusalem's fall in 585 BC. Their young son, about 12 years old, also journeyed with them. Upon ascending his father's throne, this prince took the name Herremon. As Zedekiah's daughter, Tea Tephi was heir to David's throne, and through her marriage to Herremon, a descendant of Zerah, the breach between Pharez and Zerah was mended when their son ruled as king over Israelites. This dynasty continued unbroken through the kings of Ireland, was later transplanted to Scotland in c. AD 487 with King Fergus I, and then to England in AD 1603 with James VI of Scotland crowned as James I of England, a line that persists to this day.