Ollaghair Olaf_or_Olaus Odhar GODREDSON (The Black)

Father: Ochraidh Godred_II The_Black OLAFSON
Mother: Phingola (Fionghuala) MACLOCHLAN

Family 1: Lady_from KINTYRE
  1. Harold OLAFSON
  2. Reginald OLAFSON
  3. Magnus OLAFSON
Family 2: Joan

Family 3: Christina ROSS
  1. Leod OLAFSON
  2. Guin OLAFSON
  3. Leandruis OLAFSON
  4. Godfred OLAFSON 
                                                                                                       _Harold The_Black __
                                                                     _Godred Crovan HAROLDSON ________|____________________
                                         _Olaf_I The_Red GODREDSON _|
                                        |                           |                                  _Harold HARDRAADE __
                                        |                           |_Maria [Ragnhild] HARALDSDOTTER _|_Ellisif Elizabeth _
 _Ochraidh Godred_II The_Black OLAFSON _|
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|                                       |_Elfrica of GALLOWAY ______|
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|--Ollaghair Olaf_or_Olaus Odhar GODREDSON 
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|_Phingola (Fionghuala) MACLOCHLAN _____|
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Notes

!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, pp. 374, 375. "IV. Olaus, sirnamed [sic] the Black, was then about ten years of age; the nobles therefore cast their eyes upon Reginald, his natural brother, who was indeed a brave man; but he no sooner got the reigns of government into his hands, than he usurped the crown, of which he kept possession 38 years, and gave his brother Olave, the righteous heir, the island of Lewes for his subsistence. "Olave however, after encountering many dangers and difficulties (with the assistance of Paul, sheriff of Sky, who will be mentioned hereafter), recovered possession of his kingdom of Man and the Isles, anno 1226, and enjoyed it till he died, anno 1237, having been thrice married; 1st. to a daughter of one of the nobles of Kintyre, by whom he had three sons, "1. Harold. "2. Reginald. "3. Magnus. "All successively kings of Man and the isles. But that dominion terminated when Magnus king Norway, the superior, made a surrender of Man and the western isles to king Alexander III, anno 1265; and Magnus the last king died without issue at the castle of Ross, anno 1266. "King Olave, father of the three last kings, appears to have had no children by his second wife; but he married, 3dly, Christina, daughter of Ferquhar earl of Ross, by whom he had three sons, "1. Leoid, Loyd or Leod, the undoubted progenitor of the clan Macleod, of whom afterwards. "2. Guin, of whom the clan Gun in Sutherland are descended. "3. Leaundres, of whom the clan Leaundres in Ross-shire. "Having thus, from the chronicle of Man, finished the succession of the sovereigns of that kingdom of the Norvegian race, and as the clan Macleod, or the descendants of Leoid, are the only people now subsisting we can connect with that royal family, we proceed to deduce their descent from the above Leoid, or Leod."

!BIOGRAPHY: John Burke, Esq., A GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Vol. II, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977, pp. 175-178. The three elder sons became in succession Kings of Man and the Isles, but that dominion terminated when Magnus, King of Norway, made a surrender of Man, and the western isles to Alexander III. King of Scotland, in 1265. Magnus, the youngest of the three sons, and last king, died without issue, at the castle Ross, anno 1266, and thus terminated the Norwegian race of sovereigns; we now proceed with the eldest of the three younger sons, Leod.

!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, pp. 6-7.

!BIOGRAPHY: Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride, Scotland, Associate Clan MacLeod Societies,1986, p. 20. "Godred Donn, King Reginald's son now left for Norway to plead his claim and was so far successful that it was agreed by Olaf that they should divide the Kingdom between them. Just when Olaf was on the point of proceeding to Norway to pay his 'scat', King Hakon, tired of the divisions in the Isles, decided to bestow the Kingdom on Husbac, whom he renamed Hakon, son of Owmund, a Hebridean. Husbac accompanied by Godred Donn sailed south to the Sudreys to deal with a Scottish invasion of the Isles, and they were joined off Islay by Olaf the Black. Here a naval engagement was fought, Arran was captured and a siege was laid to the strong castle of Rothesay in the Isle of Bute. The defenders hurled down huge stones and poured boiling pitch and lead on the besiegers. Olaf, however, caused his men to build wooden sheds for protection while they were busily undermining the walls. King Husbac was hurt by a stone, from the effect of which he died and was later buried in Iona. After three desperate days and the loss of 390 men, the fortress was taken. "Olaf the Black and Godred Donn now proceeded to divide the island kingdom between them. Godred Donn received Lodhus, where obviously Olaf the Black still had considerable influence. In 1231, Godred Donn, to settl e old scores, decided to kill Pol, son of Boke (Paul MacBhaic), who was the foster father of Olaf's son, Leoid. Immediately, the people of Lodhus rose in revolt and Godred Donn was slain. The whole kingdom now fell into the hands of King Olaf once again and he continued to rule it until he died in 1237. His three sons, Harold, Reginald and Magnus, succeeded him on the throne in that order. Magnus, the last king of Man and the Isles, took part in Haco's expedition against Scotland, which ended disastrously at the Battle of Largs in 1263. He died in 1265 and in the following year, by the Treaty of Perth, Man and the Isles were ceded to Alexander III, king of Scotland.

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