Benjamin (II): Sir Richard Arcos

I was talking about the Tribe of Benjamin, and how Dr. Langdon's claim that they were a 'powerful royal tribe' is so much hog-wash. I had noted that Saul's kingship was hardly a high-point in the history of the Israelite people. What is more, the line of Saul was practically ended during David's reign when seven of Saul's sons were put to death. Mephiboshesh (Mephi-baal, in fact), the son of Jonathan, died a poor pensioner of King David, apparently unmarried.
One of Saul's relatives, a charming bloke by the name of Shimei, appears in II Kings 16, among other places, acting like a total beast and cursing David in II Kings 16, and in II Kings 19 the same bloke appears grovelling to King David. Significantly nothing is said about it being a 'royal' line. Anyhow, Shimei got his just deserts, as we read in I Kings 2, where he was executed. Not a very creditable end.
David married Saul's younger daughter, Michal. The marriage was, as the legal types say, 'without issue'.
After the Babylonian exile Israel was never ruled again by a Davidic King, although the descent of the claim was recorded (See Matthew Chapter 1). Benjamin was never regarded as a 'royal' tribe in the way that Judah was, and in fact the line of King Saul was regarded as cursed. Equally, if the tribe of Benjamin had a stake in this 'Royal Line,' how come Paul, of the Tribe of Benjamin, mentions it not at all? Well, I'm waiting...