Sister of Lavon

She was sister of Lavon, the wife of Ragnald I - illegitimate half brother of Olaf (II) the Black. Ragnald forced Lavon and Olaf into marriage - which was soon annulled "on the basis that Lavon was too closely related to Olaf's mistress." Her sister was so affronted, that she attempted to have Olaf murdered at Lewis, by her son, Godred Donn.

Olaf escaped and subsequently married Christina, daughter of the Earl of Ross - "by whom he became the ancestor of the MacLeod clan of Lewis and Skye."

Source - "The mammoth book of British Kings and Queens" by Mike Ashley. pp 429-430. c 1998. ISBN 0-7867-0405-5.

Sources

• Stewart Baldwin, The Kings of the Isle of Man
• Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Dugdale's Baronage of Scotland (1798).
• Alick Morrison, The Origin of Leod (1986)

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På den tiden Reginald orsakat hans bror Olave att gifta Lanon dotter till en man av rang of Kintyre, syster till sin egen hustru, och gav honom den ovan nämnda ön Lewis, om Olave, ta avsked av sin bror, gick med sin hustru, mitt bodde där. (Chronicle of Man och Sudreys)

Vet du inte att du levt länge med kusin henne som du nu har på din fru? Olave förnekade inte sanningen om vad som sagts, och medgav att han länge hade behållit sin kusin som en konkubin. En synod därför samlades, och i det biskop Reginald canonically separerade Olave son Godred och Lauon hans fru. Efteråt gifte Olave Christina, dotter till Fenquhard, earl av Ross. (Chronicle of Man och Sudreys)

Grunderna för denna ogiltigförklaring var att Olof tidigare hade hållit en kusin till sin hustru som en konkubin och var därför, tekniskt sett, begår incest. Detta verkar en mycket fin utmärkelse för mediaval Gaeldom och requel till denna historia troligen förklarar den verkliga motivet. På släpps från sitt första äktenskap med Lauon, en dotter till en adelsman i Kintyre, gifte Olof Christina dotter till Ferchar earl av Ross. Lauon far är ingenstans nämns i våra källor, men det är troligt att han var Ruaídrí son till Rognvald son Somerled som regerade Kintyre i början trettonde århundradet. Ruaídrí verkar ha förlorat sin mark, och kanske hans liv, under den skotske kungen Alexander II: s expedition (s) i väster i 1221 och / eller 1222. Efter sin hänsyn till OLAF: s äktenskap med Christina, berättar krönikan oss att Laon syster, drottning till kung Rognvald, provocerade Rognvald son Godred att attackera sin farbror Olaf. Trots inledande nederlag, Olaf, med helf av jarlen Ferchar, övervann sin brorson. Denna incident är daterad till år 1223. Dating föreslår att det var en kollaps av Ruaídrí ställning i Kintyre som ledde Olof, nu baserad i norr, att söka en mer lämplig bundsförvant i Ferchar. Om denna tolkning av händelser är korrekt så bör vi se biskop Rognvald som verktyg i OLAF: s politik snarare än som en beskäftig reformator. Det skulle vara intressant att veta om Mac Ruaídrís tacka för sin senare styrkeposition på Garmoran och Long Island OLAF: s beskydd. " Hennes långt vi Interessante antydninger OM slektstilhørighet för Lauon og Hennes Fores søster SOM tilbake til Somerled. Han var Gift med Ragnhild datter AV-Olav Gudrødson og Ingebjørg. Ingebjørg var igjen datter av Håkon Jarl In Orknøyene. (Maj Teistevoll, Norge)

På den tiden Reginald orsakat hans bror Olave att gifta Lanon dotter till en man av rang of Kintyre, syster till sin egen hustru, och gav honom den ovan nämnda ön Lewis, om Olave, ta avsked av sin bror, gick med sin hustru, mitt bodde där. (Chronicle of Man och Sudreys)

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At that time Reginald caused his brother Olave to marry Lanon the daughter of a certain man of rank of Kintyre, sister to his own wife, and gave him the afore said island of Lewis, whether Olave, taking leave of his brother, went with his wife, amid dwelt there. (Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys)

Know you not that you lived long with the cousin of her 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. (Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys)

The grounds for this annulment were that Olaf had previously kept a first cousin of his wife as a concubine and was therefore, technically, committing incest. This seems an extremely nice distinction for mediaval Gaeldom, and the requel to this story probably explains the real motive. On being released from his first marriage to Lauon, a daughter of a nobleman in Kintyre, Olaf married Christina the daughter of Ferchar Earl of Ross. Lauon's father is nowhere named in our sources, but it is likely that he was Ruaídrí son of Rognvald son of Somerled who ruled Kintyre in the early thirteenth century. Ruaídrí appears to have lost his lands, and perhaps his life, in the course of the Scottish king Alexander II's expedition(s) to the west in 1221 and/or 1222. Following its account of Olaf's marriage to Christina, the Chronicle tells us that Laon's sister, queen to king Rognvald, provoked Rognvald's son Godred into attacking his uncle Olaf. Despite initial discomfiture, Olaf, with the helf of earl Ferchar, overcame his nephew. This incident is dated to the year 1223. The dating would suggest that it was the collapse of Ruaídrí's position in Kintyre that led Olaf, now based in the North, to seek a more appropriate ally in Ferchar. If this interpretation of events is correct then we should see bishop Rognvald as the tool of Olaf's policy rather than as an officious reformer. It would be interesting to know whether the Mac Ruaídrís owed their later position of strength in Garmoran and the Long Island to Olaf's patronage." Her får vi interessante antydninger om slektstilhørighet for Lauon og hennes søster som føres tilbake til Somerled. Han var gift med Ragnhild datter av Olav Gudrødson og Ingebjørg. Ingebjørg var igjen datter of Håkon, jarl på Orknøyene. (May Teistevoll, Norge)

At that time Reginald caused his brother Olave to marry Lanon the daughter of a certain man of rank of Kintyre, sister to his own wife, and gave him the afore said island of Lewis, whether Olave, taking leave of his brother, went with his wife, amid dwelt there. (Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys)

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