- ruler.
Somerled was
asked by
Thorfinn Ottarson, a Manx chief, to
allow Somerled's son, Dugall, to be
appointed king of Man and the Isles.
Somerled agreed...
-
isles began plotting with an
emerging and
forceful figure –
Somerled, Lord of Argyll.
Somerled's parental origins are obscure, but it is
known that he had...
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historical roots that go back
beyond the
Kingdom of Scotland. It
began with
Somerled in the 12th
century and
thereafter the
title was held by a
series of his...
-
which had been
ruled by
various Scottish clans following the
death of
Somerled in 1164.: 48–49 In 1266,
Scotland fought the
short but
consequential Scottish-Norwegian...
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Sorley and
Somerled are
masculine given names in the
English language,
Anglicizations of
Scottish Gaelic Somhairle and
Norse Sumarlidi.
Sorley is an Anglicised...
- MacPhee,
Kathleen M. (2004).
Somerled:
Hammer of the Norse. Glasgow: NWP. ISBN 1-903238-24-2. Marsden, John (2000).
Somerled and the
emergence of Gaelic...
-
possibly an
unknown "relation of theirs,
called Somerled, [who] was then also a King in the Sudreys". This
Somerled, who died in 1230, may have been a brother...
- from
Somerled back to
Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, King of the Isles, but this has
received little attention. The
Orkneyinga saga
refers to
Somerled having...
-
Randal John
Somerled McDonnell, 8th Earl of
Antrim KBE (1911–1977) was a diplomat, activist,
soldier and administrator. He
became chairman of the National...
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MacDougall takes its name from
Dubgall (Dougall), the son of
Somerled.
After Somerled's death at the
Battle of
Renfrew in 1164,
Dougall held most of Argyll...
