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    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...
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    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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    their challenge with the aid of a neighbour, Somerled of Argyll. This threat soon dissipated, because Somerled was beset with more pressing concerns: his...
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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...
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    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...
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  • 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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    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...
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    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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  • Somerled Francesco Vittorio as Young J.J. Somerled Harvey Keitel as The Guardian Luna Lauren Velez as Rosa Sanchez Tina Holmes as Annalisse Somerled Carmen...
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    Islay (section Somerled)
    with Somerled taking control of the southern Hebrides. Two years later Somerled completely ousted Godred Olafsson and re-united the kingdom. Somerled built...
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  • Sumairlid, Dubhgall mac Somhairle, Dubhgall mac Somhairlidh, Dugald mac Somerled, and Dugald MacSorley. The Gaelic personal name Dubgall is derived from...
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    isles, and the whole of Kintyre and Knapdale. In the mid 12th century, Somerled, the husband of Godred Crovan's granddaughter, led a successful revolt...
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    These are conventionally rendered in English as Sorley (or, historically, Somerled), Norman, Ronald or Ranald, Torquil and Iver (or Evander). Some Scottish...
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    Retrieved 6 November 2022. Somerled the Great Sea Lord, http://cunninghamh.tripod.com/somerled/somerled.html "Somerled". "Rooted in history ... idyllic...
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  • a Wolfskin, Eyvind voyages to the Isles of Light with Somerled, his brother Eirek, Somerled's brother Ulf (the leader of the expedition), and many others...
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  • Iain Somerled MacDonald MacCormick (28 September 1939 – 19 September 2014) was a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. MacCormick was born in Glasgow...
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  • a time among loose soil from a newly opened grave. – Bygone Lochaber, Somerled MacMillan (1971) Many generations of these MacMillans served the Camerons...
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    to the formal acknowledgement of Norwegian control of Argyll, in 1098. Somerled, the brother-in-law of Norway's governor of the region (the King of the...
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    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...
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  • from Somerled back to Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, King of the Isles, but this has received little attention. The Orkneyinga saga refers to Somerled having...
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    the Isles, ruled over by Somerled in the 12th century. On his death the MacDougalls became Lords of Lorne. Dougall, Somerled's son, held most of Argyll...
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    Man and the Isles", but the Inner Hebrides came under the influence of Somerled, a Gaelic speaker, who was styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was...
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    1265, son of Olaf In Magnus's lifetime, Ewan MacDougall, a descendant of Somerled, was appointed king of the Hebrides by Haakon, the Norwegian king. Magnus...
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  • Harry Lindsay Somerled MacDonald (2 August 1861 – 15 August 1936) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1896. He was born in Westminster, London and...
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    "King of the Isles" and "Lord of Argyll and Kintyre". Ranald's father, Somerled was styled "King of the Hebrides", and was killed campaigning against Malcolm...
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    Eilean Tirim (SM955)". Retrieved 24 February 2019. MacPhee, Kathleen, Somerled, Hammer of the Norse, at p.62 Petre (2014) p. 266. Tabraham (2005) pp....
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    nearby Benedictine monastery in 1203 by Ranald, son of Somerled. Bethóc, daughter of Somerled, and sister of Ranald, was first prioress. The ruins of...
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  • University led to the conclusion that Somerled has possibly 500,000 living descendants. Sykes deduced that despite Somerled's reputation for having driven out...
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    married Diana Mary Chamberlayne-Macdonald, a granddaughter of Sir Alexander Somerled Angus Bosville Macdonald of Sleat, 16th Baronet; the two have five children:...
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    Norse-Gael named Somerled, detached the whole of the Suðreyjar from Norway and transformed it into an independent kingdom. After Somerled's death in 1164...
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