Gillebride macGilledAoman^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

Abt 1085 - Abt 1130  (45 years)

• Name	Gillebride macGilledAoman
  Birth	Abt 1085	Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1130	Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland
  Notes	From: sbald@auburn.campus.mci.net (Stewart Baldwin) Subject: Re: SOMERLED, Lord of the Isles Date: 1997/04/21 Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval user wrote: >This is his pedigree as I've found: >Gille Adomnan >Gillebridge >Somerled (1030-1083) >Gille Adomnan >Gillebridge >Somerled II, Lord of the Isles (-1164) >This repetition of three names looks very suspicious and I wonder if the >author goofed. Can anyone confirm or deny this? You are right. They are suspicious. In February 1996, I posted an itemto s.g.m which touched on a couple of topics, one of which was theancestry of Somerled. The part of that item which is relevant toSomerled is quoted below: --------------- The best account of the ancestry of Somerled of which I am aware is thearticle "The origins and ancestry of Somerled", by W. D. H. Sellar,which appeared in "The Scottish Historical Review", vol. 45 (1966), pp.123-142. This article lists all of the earliest known manuscripts givingthe genealogy of Somerled, and then discusses the reliability of thegenealogy in detail. To make a long story short, he accepted thegenealogy as being probably reliable back to the early ninth century, asfollows: 1. Fergus, probably a member of the minor Irish sept of Ui Maic Uais. In his article, Sellar rejected as "preposterous fiction" the claim thatFergus was the same person as the king of Dalriada of that namewhoreigned from 778 until 781. His exact line of descent from the Ui MaicUais is unknown. (The traditional genealogy of Fergus is chronologicallyimpossible by several hundred years.) 2. Gofraidh (Godfrey), son of Fergus, whose name betrays a likely Norseconnection, said by the Annals of the Four Masters to have gone fromOirgiall to Alba (Scotland) at the request of Kenneth MacAlpin in 836.Godfrey's death is given by the Annals of the Four Masters as 853. TheAnnals of the Four Masters are a very late compilation, and not always tobe trusted, but Sellar argued that they should be accepted as reliable inthis case. 3. Maine. (Nothing is known of the next several generations other thantheir names.) 4. Niallgus. 5. Suibne. 6. Meargaige. Some have attempted to identify this person with kingEachmarcach of Dublin, but Sellar shows that this is incorrect. 7. Solam (Solomon). 8. Gilla-Adomnain. 9. Gilla-Brighte. 10. Somerled, d. 1164. Stewart Baldwin
  Person ID	I11305	Wilson-Maynard Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2004

  
  

  Notes	_UIDC879D40244808C49BA5F295689A1FEE656F8
  Family ID	F6822	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Notes	_UIDC6D2575FF5138A4F966805D258CCB397723C
  Children	1. Lord of the Isles Somerled,   b. Abt 1118, Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland d. 1164, Battle of Renfrew, Scotland (Age 46 years)   2. UNKNOWN ?,   b. Abt 1123, Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F6821	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1072564705] The Isle of Bute in the Olden Time; James King Hewison {1893}, chart 259. [S1072564699] Dictionary of National Biography, George Smith, Oxford Press, Vols 1-21 (Orignially published 1885-90),Ed by Sir Leslie S, XIX:164. [S1072564707] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Steward Baldwin, 21 April 1997. [S1072564708] Pedigrees of the Scottish Clans, From Irish and Scottish MS <http://members.aol.com/lochlan4/pedigree.htm>, cites the Books of Ballymote and Leccan.