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Olav I was King of Mann and the Isles from 1104 until 1153. His nickname was Morsel. He was born around 1080 and died 29 June 1153.

His father was King Godred Crovan
Godred Crovan

Godred Crovan was a Norse-Gael ruler of Kings of Dublin, and King of Mann and the Isles in the second half of the 11th century. Godred's epithet Crovan may mean "white hand" ....
. He succeeded, either together or after, his one or two brothers. Lagman
Lagman of the Isle of Man

Lagmann was King of Mann and the Isles between 1103 and 1104. One of the four Houses of The Buchan School in the Isle of Man is named in memory of Lagman....
 who held the throne at between 1103-04 apparently was his (eldest) brother.

ay's Kings Magnus Barefoot
Magnus III of Norway

Magnus Barefoot son of Olaf III of Norway and grandson of Harald Hardrada, was kings of Norway from 1093 until 1103 and King of Mann and the Isles from 1099 until 1102....
 and Sigurd Jorsalafare
Sigurd I of Norway

Sigurd I Magnusson , also known as Sigurd Jorsalfare was king of Norway from 1103 to 1130. He initially shared the throne with his brothers Eystein I of Norway and Olav Magnusson, but ruled alone from 1123....
 annexed the kingdom and caused disruption in successions.






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Olav I was King of Mann and the Isles from 1104 until 1153. His nickname was Morsel. He was born around 1080 and died 29 June 1153.

His father was King Godred Crovan
Godred Crovan

Godred Crovan was a Norse-Gael ruler of Kings of Dublin, and King of Mann and the Isles in the second half of the 11th century. Godred's epithet Crovan may mean "white hand" ....
. He succeeded, either together or after, his one or two brothers. Lagman
Lagman of the Isle of Man

Lagmann was King of Mann and the Isles between 1103 and 1104. One of the four Houses of The Buchan School in the Isle of Man is named in memory of Lagman....
 who held the throne at between 1103-04 apparently was his (eldest) brother.

Reign

Norway's Kings Magnus Barefoot
Magnus III of Norway

Magnus Barefoot son of Olaf III of Norway and grandson of Harald Hardrada, was kings of Norway from 1093 until 1103 and King of Mann and the Isles from 1099 until 1102....
 and Sigurd Jorsalafare
Sigurd I of Norway

Sigurd I Magnusson , also known as Sigurd Jorsalfare was king of Norway from 1103 to 1130. He initially shared the throne with his brothers Eystein I of Norway and Olav Magnusson, but ruled alone from 1123....
 annexed the kingdom and caused disruption in successions. For forty years Olaf ruled them uncontested.

The Kingdom of Mann and the Isles
Kingdom of Mann and the Isles

The Kingdom of Mann and the Isles was a Norsemen monarchy that existed in the British Isles between 1079 and 1266.The Kingdom had two parts, Sodor , or the South Isles , and Nor?r , or the North Isles ....
 encompassed the Isle of Man
Isle of Man

The Isle of Man , or Mann , is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles....
 and the Hebrides
Hebrides

The Hebrides comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of Scotland. There are two main groups, the Inner and Outer Hebrides....
, extending from the Calf of Man
Calf of Man

Calf of Man is a small island, almost one square mile in area, off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man. It is separated from the Isle of Man by a narrow stretch of water called the Calf Sound....
 to the Butt of Lewis
Butt of Lewis

The Butt of Lewis is in the area of Ness, Outer Hebrides. It is the northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis. It is the location for an abandoned lighthouse built in the 1860s and designed by David Stevenson ....
. Olaf adopted the Latin style Rex Manniae et Insularum in his charters, a translation of the Gaelic title ri Innse Gall (literally 'king of the foreigners' isles'), which had been in use since the late 10th century.

The islands which were under his rule were called the Sullr-eyjar (Sudreys or the south isles, in contradistinction to the Norsr-eyjar, or the "north isles," i.e. the Orkneys and Shetlands
Shetland Islands

Shetland is an archipelago in Scotland, off the northeast coast. The islands lie to the northeast of Orkney, from the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east....
, and they consisted of the Hebrides
Hebrides

The Hebrides comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of Scotland. There are two main groups, the Inner and Outer Hebrides....
, and of all the smaller western islands of Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, with Mann.

Olaf I exercised considerable power, and according to the Chronicles of Mann, maintained such close alliance with the kings of Ireland and Scotland that no one ventured to disturb the Isles during his time (1104 - 1153).

In the 1130s the Church sent a small mission to establish the first bishopric
Bishopric

Bishopric may refer to:*Diocese an ecclesiastical region run by a bishop in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Anglican and some Lutheran churches....
 on the Isle of Man, and appointed Wimund as the first bishop. He soon after gave up his role as fisher-of-men, and became the hunter-of-men, embarking with a band of followers on a career of murder and looting throughout Scotland and the surrounding islands.

During the whole of the Scandinavian period the isles remained nominally under the suzerainty
Suzerainty

Suzerainty is a situation in which a region or nation is a tributary state to a more powerful entity which allows the tributary some limited domestic Wiktionary:autonomy to control its foreign affairs....
 of the kings of Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
, but the Norwegians only occasionally asserted it with any vigour. Magnus Barfod
Magnus III of Norway

Magnus Barefoot son of Olaf III of Norway and grandson of Harald Hardrada, was kings of Norway from 1093 until 1103 and King of Mann and the Isles from 1099 until 1102....
 about 1100 conquered the isles.

Marriage & Children

Olaf's first wife was Aufrica of Galloway, who bore herself and him a son and successor, Godred Olafsson.

His second wife was Ingeborg Haakonsdottir, daughter of Haakon
Haakon Paulsson

Haakon Paulsson was joint Earl of Orkney from 1103?1123. He is mentioned in the Orkneyinga saga. He is depicted as a protagonist in George Mackay Brown's novel Magnus . His father was Paul and Erlend Thorfinnsson....
, Earl of the Orkneys
Earl of Orkney

The Earl of Orkney was originally a Norsemen Earl ruling Orkney, Shetland and parts of Caithness and Sutherland. The Earls were periodically subject to the kings of Norway for the Northern Isles, and later also to the kings of Kingdom of Alba for those parts of their territory in mainland Scotland ....
. This marriage produced at least daughter Ragnhild, who married Somerled
Somerled

Somerled was a military and political leader of the Scottish Isles in the 12th century who was known in Gaelic as ri Innse Gall . His father was Gillebride of Clan Angus who had been exiled to Ireland....
, King of Kintyre and the Isles.

Reginald
Ragnald III of the Isle of Man

Ragnall I Haraldsson , referred to in some texts as Reginald, was King of Mann and the Isles....
, Lagmann and Harald are mentioned as his other sons.

After half a century of reign, Olaf I was killed.