Guðrøðr Óláfsson

   Other names for Guðrøðr were Gored of Man and Godred Olafsson.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Gored.
The Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum records that "Godred filius eius" returned from Norway after his father was killed, murdered one of his cousins and blinded the other two, after which he reigned for 33 years [Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum, p. 150]. The Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum records that King Godred was defeated by Somerled Lord of Argyll in 1158 and fled to Norway to seek help [Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum, p. 153]. The Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum records the death "IV Id Nov" in 1187 of King Godred "in insula Sancti Patricii in Mannia" and his burial the following summer in "insulam…Hy" [Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum, p. 162]. The Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum records that King Godred married "Phingola filia MacLotlen filii Murkartac regis Hiberniæ", mother of his son, in a Christian marriage ceremony in 1176 [Chronicon Manniæ et Insularum, p. 161].

• Web Reference: Godred Olafsson from Wikipedia.
Guðrøðr was a son of Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles and Affraic, daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galloway.