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•Somerled is the central figure in the novel Summer Warrior by Regan Walker that tells the story of how the Norse-Gael forged the Kingdom of the Isles. •Somerled is the protagonist in the novel Lord of the Isles by Nigel Tranter. •Somerled is the protagonist in the novel The Winter Isles by Antonia Senior.
The newly powerful Somerled was seen as a serious threat by King Malcolm IV of Scotland, and in 1160 the two met in indecisive battle in Argyll. After an uneasy peace, conflict was resumed in early 1164. Somerled landed an army of 15,000 men from 164 galleys at Greenock.
Somerled, lord of the Isles (d.1164). Somerled claimed descent from Gofraid mac Fherghusa, son of the founder of the kingdom of Dalriada. He established his position in Argyll and Kintyre at the expense of the Norse and fought for David I at the battle of the Standard in 1138.
edit. history. Somerled, a Celtic chief, acquired the Western Isles in the mid-1100s and assumed the title “King of the Isles”. His son Reginald was the first whose title "Lord of the Isles" is attested in a contemporary document.
One of them, Somerled, really the first Lord of the Isles, was killed near Renfrew in 1164 on an expedition against the Scottish king, but his descendants held the lordship of the Isles until 1493, when King James IV deprived John, the last MacDonald Lord of the Isles,…
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The origins and ancestry of Somerled In 1164 Somerled king of Innse Gall1 and regulus of Argyll was defeated and killed at Renfrew at the head of an invading army of Islesmen and Scandinavians from Dublin. As the founder of a new dynasty of Hebridean sea-kings and ancestor of the MacDonalds, kings and lords of the Isles for many centuries, he is
