A lady of Kintyre

Her identity is unknown, but she was a cousin of her husband's second wife, Joan, who was a sister of the unnamed wife of Ragnvald IV Gudrödsson, King of Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintyre_Pursuivant Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms was a Scottish pursuivant of arms of the Court of the Lord Lyon. The Kintyre Pursuivant was formerly a private officer of arms in the service of the Lord of the Isles, but along with Dingwall Pursuivant, Ross Herald, and Islay Herald became an officer of arms to the Scottish Crown when the last Lord of the Isles forfeited his estates and titles to James IV of Scotland in 1493. The badge of office is Two dolphins hauriant addorsed Azure enfiled of a coronet of four fleurs-de-lys (two visible) and four crosses pattee (one and two halves visible) Or.[1]

"Some time after his return to Lodhus, Olaf decided to marry again in 1218 to ‘Jauon’ (i.e., Joan) a sister of the Queen of Man. Reginald, the Bishop of the Isles, now took action and convening the Synod, demanded that Olaf must divorce his wife on the ground that she was cousin german to his first wife. Olaf complained that his first marriage was not confirmed: Bishop Reginald was adamant: Joan had to go. In 1222, Olaf married his third wife, Christina daughter of Farquhar, Earl of Ross."

Sources

• Stewart Baldwin, The Kings of the Isle of Man
• Chronicon Manniæ, Or a Chronicle of the Kings of Man, John Gillies, transl. (1784)
• The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys (Manx Society edition, 1874).
• Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Dugdale's Baronage of Scotland (1798)
• Alick Morrison, The Origin of Leod (1986)

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[http://isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxsoc/msvol22/p074.htm] Chronicon Manniae et Insularum (Chronicle of Man and the Isles) - 1164-1225 [please note Munch's footnotes, textual readings and the latin text are still to be added and/or corrected]

Extract:

he again visited his brother Reginald, by whom he was received in a friendly manner. At that timne Reginald caused his brother Olave to marry Lauon the daughter of a certain man of rank of Kintyre, sister to his own wife, and gave him the aforesaid island of Lewis, whither Olave, taking leave of his brother, went with his wife, amid dwelt there. After some days, Reginald bishop of the Isles, successor to bishop Nicholas, came to the Isles to visit the churches. Olave went to meet him with great alacrity, and was glad of his arrival, for the bishop was son of Olave's sister, and ordered a great banquet to be prepared. Reginald, however, said to Olave "I will not hold communication with you, brother, till the Catholic Church has canonically released you from the bonds of an unlawful marriage." The bishop added: "Didn’t you know you lived long with the cousin of her by whom you now have as your wife?" Olave did not deny the truth of what had been said, and acknowledged that he had long kept her cousin as a concubine. A synod therefore was assembled, and in it bishop Reginald canonically separated Olave the son of Godred and Lauon his wife. Afterwards, Olave married Christina, daughter of Fenquhard, Earl of Ross.

But the wife of King Reginald, Queen of the Isles, pained by the separation of her sister from Olave, and moved by the gall of bitterness, and sower of all the discord between Reginald and Olave, wrote secretly in the name of King Reginald, to her son Godred, who was in the isle of Sky, to seize and kill Olave. Godred, on receipt of the letter, collected a force and went to Lewis for the purpose of carrying out, if he could, his mother's truly wicked desires. Olave, however, entering a small boat, with a few men, with difficulty avoided Godred, and fled to his father-in-law, the Earl of Ross, whilst Godred laid waste nearly the whole island, killed a few of the inhabitants, and returned home

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_the_Black] Upon Óláfr's return the chronicle says that Rögnvaldr welcomed him (Olaf) back and had him marry Lauon, the daughter of a certain nobleman from Kintyre, who was also the sister of his own wife.[11] The precise identification of the father-in-law of Óláfr and Rögnvaldr is uncertain, but he may have been a member of Clann Somairle; possibly Ragnall mac Somairle, or his son Ruaidrí, who are both styled Lord of Kintyre in documents contemporaneous to their reigns.[15] The chronicle states that Rögnvaldr then gave Lewis back to Óláfr, where the newly-weds proceeded to live until the arrival of Reginald, Bishop of the Isles (d. c. 1226), sometime later.[11] According to the chronicle the bishop disapproved of Óláfr's marriage, as Óláfr had formerly had a concubine who was a cousin of Lauon. A synod was then assembled and the chronicle records that the marriage was nullified. Although at first glance the marriage appears to have been doomed, as it was deemed "as being within prohibited degree of kinship",[3][note 6] it may be that this was merely a convenient excuse, and that the contention between the half-brothers may have played a part in its demise.[16] It is also possible that Bishop Reginald may have released Óláfr from an arranged marriage which had been forced upon him; the bishop and Óláfr appear to have been close,[17] as the chronicle describes Bishop Reginald as a son of Óláfr's sister, and notes that Óláfr was glad at his coming to Lewis.[11] Furthermore, it was Bishop Reginald who annulled the marriage which Rögnvaldr had arranged for Óláfr. In fact, when the previous Bishop of the Isles died in 1217, Bishop Reginald had vied with a rival candidate for the position—a certain Nicholas—and there is evidence to suggest that Reginald was supported by Óláfr, while Óláfr's half-brother Rögnvaldr supported the bid of Nicholas.[17] The chronicle states that Óláfr then married Christina, daughter of Ferchar mac an t-sagairt (d. c. 1251).[11] Óláfr's father-in-law emerges from historical obscurity in 1215 and, by the mid 1220s (about the time of, or not long after, the marriage), Ferchar had obtained the Earldom of Ross from Alexander II, King of Scots (d. 1249) for his part in defeating the Meic Uilleim northern rebellion in 1215.[18] The chronicle declares that Óláfr's separation from Lauon had enraged her sister, and Rögnvaldr's bitter queen sought to sow discord between the half-brothers. If the chronicle is to be believed, the queen secretly wrote under her husband's name to their son Guðrøðr, ordering him to seize and kill Óláfr. The chronicle states that Guðrøðr dutifully gathered a force on Skye and proceeded to Lewis, where he laid waste to most of the island before returning to Skye—Óláfr had narrowly escaped with a few men and fled to the protection of his father-in-law, on the mainland in Ross.[11]