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Dubgall mac Somairle (Modern Dubhghall mac Somhairle; Anglicized: "Dugald" or "Dougal, Somerled's son") was a 12th century Scottish nobleman. The son of Somairle mac Gille Brigte, regulus of Argyll, Dubgall is the eponymous progenitor of Clan MacDougall (Clann Dubhghaill, literally "Children of Dougal" or "Dubgall").

According to the Chronicles of Mann, in 1155 he accompanied his father Somairle in an expedition against Goraidh mac Amhlaibh, King of Mann and the Isles.[1] In 1175, he was one of the Scottish magnates accompanying King William the Lion to York.[2] In the same year, he and his chaplain Stephan made a pilgrimage to St Cuthbert at Durham, donating two gold rings to the Cathedral Priory.[3] The Chronicles of Mann alleged that the men of the Isles chose Dubgall to be their King, but this may have been a later concoction, and Dubgall is never given a title in any contemporary source.[4] It has been suggested that he was the founder of the bishopric of Argyll,[5] though more likely this took place under his brother Ragnall.[6]

It is not known when Dubgall died. Dubgall is not mentioned again after 1175, but may have lived long afterwards, perhaps even into the 13th century.[7] He appears to have had the following sons,

Amlaib mac Dubgaill (Olaf)
Donnchad mac Dubgaill (Duncan)
Ragnall mac Dubgaill (Ranald or Ronald)
Dubgall "Screech" mac Dubgaill (Dougal or Dugald)
Somairle mac Dubgaill (Somerled or Sorley)
Gille Escoib mac Dubgaill (Uspak and Haakon)
The last is uncertain. Gille Escoib appears in Haakon's Saga, which renders his name "Uspak", as a son of Dubgall upon whom is conferred the royal name Haakon; "Uspak" enjoyed a successful career, but it is not entirely certain that the Dubgall referred as his father is Dubgall mac Somairle.[8].

Aonghas mac Somhairle (English: Angus, son of Somerled) (c. 1150-1210) was a son of Somerled and Ragnhildis, daughter of Olaf I Godredsson, King of Mann and the Isles and Ingeborg Haakonsdottir daughter of Haakon Paulsson, Earl of Orkney.[1] Aonghas succeeded his father, inheriting lands in Garmoran, Skye, Rum, Eigg, Bute and Arran and became known as Lord of Bute and Arran.[1][2] In 1192 in a battle between Aonghas and his brother Raghnall, he was victorious and many were wounded and fell.[3] He lost his lands on Bute after Alan fitz Walter was granted the lands of Bute by William I of Scotland in 1200. Aonghas was killed in battle with his three sons on Skye in 1210.[4] After the death of Aonghas and his heirs, his brother Raghnall's sons Domhnall and Ruaidhri took poscession of his lands.

[edit] FamilyBy his wife, who is unknown, their children were:

Séamus mac Aonghas (James MacRory), b. c 1195, Killed in battle in 1210 on Skye. He left a daughter Jean de Bute, who married Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland.
unknown mac Aonghas, Killed in battle in 1210 on Skye.
unknown mac Aonghas, Killed in battle in 1210 on Skye.

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Divorced before
August 1288.

Tancred of Hauteville (980-1041) was an 11th-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known. His historical importance comes entirely from the accomplishments of his sons and later descendants. He was a minor noble near Coutances in the Cotentin, but it is not even certain which of the three villages called Hauteville he held, though Hauteville-la-Guichard is most often cited. Various legends later arose about him which have no supporting contemporary evidence.

He had 12 sons by his two wives (both of them have been said to be daughters of Duke Richard I of Normandy, but no primary sources back up this claim[1]) and several daughters, almost all of whom left Normandy for southern Italy and acquired some prominence there.

By his first wife Muriella he had five sons:

Serlo (stayed in Normandy)
Beatrix (d. 1101), married first Armand de Mortain and second Roger
Geoffrey, lord of Hauteville, count of Loritello (d. 1063)
William Iron Arm, count of Apulia (d. 1046)
Drogo, count of Apulia (d. 1051)
Humphrey, count of Apulia (d. 1057)
According to the Italian chronicler of the Norman feats in the south, Amatus of Montecassino, Tancred was a morally upright man who would not carry on a sinful relationship and so remarried, being unable also to live out his life in perfect celibacy. By his second wife Fressenda (or Fredesenda) he had seven sons and at least one daughter:

Robert Guiscard de Hauteville, count of Apulia (1057), then duke of Apulia and Sicily (d. 1085)
Mauger, count of the Capitanate (d. 1064)
William, count of the Principate (d. 1080)
Aubrey (Alberic or Alvared, Alveredus in Latin; sometimes called Alvred or Alfred) (stayed in Normandy)
Humbert (Hubert) (stayed in Normandy)
Tancred (stayed in Normandy)
Roger de Hauteville, count of Sicily from 1062 (d. 1101)
Fressenda, who married Richard I (dead in 1078), count of Aversa and prince of Capua.