The Origins and Ancestry of Somerled. Author(s): W. D. H. Sellar
The origins and ancestry of Somerled In 1164 Somerled king of Innse Gall1 and regulus of Argyll defeated and killed at Renfrew at the head of an invading of Islesmen and Scandinavians from Dublin. As the founder new dynasty of Hebridean sea-kings and ancestor MacDonalds, kings and lords of the Isles for many centuries, a figure of the greatest importance in Scottish history.