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|_Maria [Ragnhild] HARALDSDOTTER _|
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!REIGN: Reigned 1087-1095.
!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. II. Lagman, King of Man and the Isles: this monarch's brother, Harold, having raised a rebellion against him, was defeated and made prisoner, and Lagman put out his eyes, and otherwise treated him barbarously. Lagman being afterwards seized with remorse, went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and died there issueless, in the year 1089. His unhappy brother, Harold dying also childless, the kingdom fell to the youngest and only surviving brother.
!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, pp. 2-3.
!BIOGRAPHY: Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride, Scotland, Associate Clan MacLeod Societies,1986, pp. 15-16. "Lagman, who had been viceroy in the Hebrides before his father's death succeeded him on the throne. No sooner was the strong hand of Godred Crovan removed than dissensions broke out in the island kingdom. Civil war broke out between the North and South of Man. In the battle of Santwith between the rival factions, MacMaras (i.e. MacMaurice or MacGillemhoire) leader of the South, and Jarl Otter, leader of the North, were slain. Harold, Lagman's younger brother, frequently rebelled and in the end was barbarously punished. This so filled Lagman with remorse, that he undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died in Jerusalem in 1095. He may have omitted to pay his 'scat' (10 marks of gold) on his succession to his superior, the King of Norway. King Magnus Barefoot of Norway now decided to teach the Islanders a lesson and made three savage incursions in 1093, 1098, and 1103. His skald exultingly details the devastation made in the Orkneys, Lodhus, Skye, Mull, Tiree, Islay, Man and Anglesey. Iona he treated with remarkable respect. He made a Treaty with King Malcolm of Scotland in which the Norse king was allowed to possess all islands lying west of Scotland between which and the mainland he could pass with a rudder carrying boat. The wily Norse king landed in Kintyre and caused his ship to be drawn across the isthmus to Tarbert, Loch Fyne. In this way he secured Kintyre 'which is better than the best island in the Sudreys except Man.' He left a tyrannical governor, Ingemund, to rule the Hebrides; the islanders revolted and consigned him and his house to the flames. King Magnus Barefoot returned for a second time and doled out even more savage punishment to the Isles. Many fled out to sea: others went into temporary exile into the kingdom of the Scots. No doubt, most of them returned again to their devastated homesteads. "While in residence in the Isle of Man, Magnus Barefoot, who was furious that the Hebrideans had chosen Donald MacTade, an Irishman, as their governor, 'sent his shoes' [Vide MANUSCRIPT MEMORIAL, (ca. 1767), P. 2, in Dunvegan Castle.) by an ambassador to one of the Kings of Ireland desiring he should carry them in presence of his court on Christmas day as a token of submission with threats of invading his territory if he did not comply. The Irish king complied rather than hazard his kingdom to the invasion of so powerful an enemy. Tempted by the favourable reports of the country made by his ambassador, Magnus eventually invaded Ireland but was killed in the very first engagement in August, 1104."