Brodar mac Torcaill

Summary

Brodar mac Torcaill (1104 – 1 July 1160),[1] also known as Brodar Mac Turcaill,[2] was a late twelfth century King of Dublin. He was a member of the Meic Torcaill, a substantial landholding kindred in the kingdom.[3] His death in 1160,[4] at the hands of the Meic Gilla Sechnaill of South Brega, is revealed by the thirteenth-century Cottonian Annals, the seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters, the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster, and the fourteenth-century Annals of Tigernach.[5]

Brodar mac Torcaill
King of Dublin
Reign1148–1 July 1160
PredecessorÓttar of Dublin
SuccessorAscall mac Ragnaill
Born1104
Died1 July 1160
Brega
HouseMeic Torcaill
FatherTorcall

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Primary sources edit

  • "Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (3 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013a. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  • "Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (16 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013b. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  • "Annals of Tigernach". Corpus of Electronic Texts (13 April 2005 ed.). University College Cork. 2005. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  • "The Annals in Cotton MS. Titus A. XXV". Corpus of Electronic Texts (13 February 2010 ed.). University College Cork. 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  • "The Annals of Tigernach". Corpus of Electronic Texts (2 November 2010 ed.). University College Cork. 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  • "The Annals of Ulster". Corpus of Electronic Texts (29 August 2008 ed.). University College Cork. 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  • "The Annals of Ulster". Corpus of Electronic Texts (15 August 2012 ed.). University College Cork. 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

Secondary sources edit

  • Hudson, B (2002). "Brjáns Saga". Medium Ævum. 71 (1): 241–285. doi:10.2307/43630435. eISSN 2398-1423. ISSN 0025-8385. JSTOR 43630435.
  • Downham, C (2013). "Living on the Edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the Twelfth Century". No Horns on Their Helmets? Essays on the Insular Viking-Age. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian Studies. Aberdeen: Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies and The Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Aberdeen. pp. 157–178. ISBN 978-0-9557720-1-6. ISSN 2051-6509.
  • Duffy, S (1992). "Irishmen and Islesmen in the Kingdoms of Dublin and Man, 1052–1171". Ériu. 43: 93–133. eISSN 2009-0056. ISSN 0332-0758. JSTOR 30007421.
  • Woods, A (2013). Economy and Authority: A Study of the Coinage of Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin and Ireland (PhD thesis). Vol. 1. University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.7489.
Brodar mac Torcaill
 Died: 1160
Regnal titles
Unknown
Last known title holder:
Ottar mac meic Ottair
King of Dublin
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Unknown
Next known title holder:
Ascall mac Ragnaill