Godred II Olafsson
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 78 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5110-4952-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Godred Olafsson (Gaelic: Gofraid mac Amlaib; Old Norse: Gu?ro?r Olafsson), also known as Godred II, was a 12th century King of Mann and the Isles. His father, Olaf Godredsson (d. 1153), ruled the island-kingdom before him as did Godred's paternal-grandfather, Godred Crovan (d. 1095), who was also the King of Dublin. Some secondary sources style Godred Olafsson and his predecessors "King of Mann", or "King of Mann and the Isles". However these terms are anachronistic with Godred styling himself "King of the Isles". During his father's reign, Godred was sent to Norway to render homage to Inge Haraldsson, King of Norway. In 1153, while Godred was still in Norway, Olaf was assassinated by three of his brother's sons, who then took control of Mann. The following autumn, Godred returned from Norway and regained the kingdom, putting one of his treacherous cousins to death and blinding the other two. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию...