Godred Crovan (died 1095), known in Gaelic as Gofraid Crobán, Gofraid Meránach, and Gofraid Méránach, was a Norse-Gaelic ruler of the kingdoms of Dublin...

Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. The eponymous founder of the dynasty was Godred Crovan, who appeared from obscurity in the late 11th century, before his takeover...

granddaughter of Godred Crovan's married the ambitious Somerled, a Norse-Gaelic Argyle nobleman. Godred Olafsson, grandson of Godred Crovan, was an increasingly...

arrival of Godred Crovan. "Crovan" probably means "white hand" although the reason is unknown and his origins are also uncertain. Godred may have been...

Crovan may refer to: Godred Crovan (died 1095), Norse-Gaelic ruler of the kingdoms of Dublin and the Isles Crovan dynasty, ruling family of islands off...

1070 King Godred Sitricson died and his throne was passed to Fingal, but he does not seem to have remained there long. In 1079, Godred Crovan assembled...

an invasion of the Scottish mainland. At this point Godred the Black, grandson of Godred Crovan re-took possession of the northern Hebrides and the southern...

reestablishing the dynasty independent in Dublin in spite of the Gaels. Godred Crovan may have been successful for a period after him. The Uí Ímair dynasty...

Norway, from 804 until 810) Gudrød Bjørnsson (ruled Vestfold until 968) Godred Crovan (d. 1095), King of Dublin and the Isles Guðrøðr Óláfsson (d. 1187),...

(1061–1070) Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó (1070–1072) Godred Sitricson (?–1074) Fingal Godredson (1074-?) Godred Crovan (1079–1094) Magnus Barelegs (1098–1102), Direct...

the island. The Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles was created by Godred Crovan in 1079. The Norse had a major impact on the island, leaving behind...

direct Norwegian rule over the kingdom, but soon the descendants of Godred Crovan re-asserted a further period of largely independent overlordship. This...

however the reference to King Orry is to the 11th century local ruler Godred Crovan, who has a number of supposed burial places. The modern name likely...

is the same Godred proclaimed as a significant ancestor in two 13th-century poems concerning descendants of Somerled. As such, Godred Crovan may be the...

Norwegian authority, somewhat resisted by local rulers, like Godred Crovan. Following Godred's death, the local population resisted Norway's choice of replacement...

sea region they did not have the strength they had had previously. The Crovan dynasty, rulers of Mann and the Isles, likely descended from Ímar through...

independent communities". Godred Crovan became the ruler of Dublin and Mann from 1079 and from the early years of the 12th century the Crovan dynasty asserted...

divided into two main epochs – before and after the conquest of Mann by Godred Crovan in 1079. Warfare and unsettled rule characterise the earlier epoch,...

Murchad mac Diarmata, King (1061–1070) Fingal mac Gofraid, King (?–1074) Godred Crovan, King (1079–1094) Magnus Barefoot, King (1098–1102) Kingdom of England...

had become the Norwegian Kingdom of the Isles, locally controlled by Godred Crovan, and known by Norway as Suðreyjar (Old Norse, traditionally anglicised...

of Scotland and Strathclyde. In 1095, the King of Mann and the Isles Godred Crovan was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King Edgar...

Isles and expelled him to Ireland.[citation needed] The Norse nobleman Godred Crovan became ruler of Man and the Isles, but he was deposed in 1095 by the...

13th century noblewoman. She was the daughter of Godred Olafsson, King of the Isles, a member of the Crovan dynasty. In the late 12th century she married...

theologian Godfrey of Viterbo (c. 1120 – c. 1196), Roman Catholic chronicler Godred Crovan (died 1095), King of Dublin and the Isles Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill...

Furthermore, they are descended maternally from both the House of Godred Crovan and the Earls of Orkney, through Somerled's wife Ragnhildis Ólafsdóttir...

secondary sources: Godfrey mac Aulay, Godhfhraidh mac Amhlaoibh, Godred Olafsson, Godred Óláfsson, Gofhraidh mac Amhlaíbh, Gofraid Mac Amlaíb, Gofraid mac...

Tempus Publishing. pp. 45–70. ISBN 0-7524-1974-9. Duffy, S (2004a). "Godred Crovan (d. 1095)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford...

Lewis and Harris, and Skye—controlled by the patrilineal descendants of Godred Crovan (d. 1095); the other consisting of mainland territories in Argyll, and...

grandsons Ragnall, attacked the Isle of Man in a failed attempt to oust Godred Crovan, king of Dublin and the Isles. At the end of the 11th century, the Ulaid...

South Isles of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, but on the death of Godred Crovan in 1095 all the isles came under the direct rule of Magnus III of Norway...