!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE
OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, p. 374.
"II. Lagman, king of Man and the isles, whose brother Harold having
raised a rebellion against him, was defeated and taken prisoner by
Lagman, who put out his eyes, and used him otherwise very barbarously;
but being afterwards seized with a remorse, he renounced the kingdom,
and went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he died without issue,
anno 1089, after a short reign of about five years.
"His brother Harold being dead also without children, the kingdom fell
to Olave or Olaus."
!REIGN: Reigned 1087-1095.
!BIOGRAPHY: John Burke, Esq., A GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY
OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Vol. II, Baltimore,
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977, pp. 175-178.
II. Lagman, King of Man and the Isles: this monarch''s brother, Harold,
having raised a rebellion against him, was defeated and made prisoner,
and Lagman put out his eyes, and otherwise treated him barbarously.
Lagman being afterwards seized with remorse, went on a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, and died there issueless, in the year 1089. His unhappy
brother, Harold dying also childless, the kingdom fell to the youngest and
only surviving brother.
!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND
DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, pp. 2-3.
!BIOGRAPHY: Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East
Kilbride, Scotland, Associate Clan MacLeod Societies,1986, pp. 15-16.
"Lagman, who had been viceroy in the Hebrides before his father''s death
succeeded him on the throne. No sooner was the strong hand of Godred
Crovan removed than dissensions broke out in the island kingdom. Civil
war broke out between the North and South of Man. In the battle of
Santwith between the rival factions, MacMaras (i.e. MacMaurice or
MacGillemhoire) leader of the South, and Jarl Otter, leader of the North,
were slain. Harold, Lagman''s younger brother, frequently rebelled and in
the end was barbarously punished. This so filled Lagman with remorse,
that he undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died in Jerusalem in
1095. He may have omitted to pay his ''scat'' (10 marks of gold) on his
succession to his superior, the King of Norway. King Magnus Barefoot of
Norway now decided to teach the Islanders a lesson and made three
savage incursions in 1093, 1098, and 1103. His skald exultingly details
the devastation made in the Orkneys, Lodhus, Skye, Mull, Tiree, Islay, Man
and Anglesey. Iona he treated with remarkable respect. He made a
Treaty with King Malcolm of Scotland in which the Norse king was
allowed to possess all islands lying west of Scotland between which and
the mainland he could pass with a rudder carrying boat. The wily Norse
king landed in Kintyre and caused his ship to be drawn across the
isthmus to Tarbert, Loch Fyne. In this way he secured Kintyre ''which is
better than the best island in the Sudreys except Man.'' He left a
tyrannical governor, Ingemund, to rule the Hebrides; the islanders
revolted and consigned him and his house to the flames. King Magnus
Barefoot returned for a second time and doled out even more savage
punishment to the Isles. Many fled out to sea: others went into
temporary exile into the kingdom of the Scots. No doubt, most of them
returned again to their devastated homesteads.
"While in residence in the Isle of Man, Magnus Barefoot, who was
furious that the Hebrideans had chosen Donald MacTade, an Irishman, as
their governor, ''sent his shoes'' [Vide MANUSCRIPT MEMORIAL, (ca. 1767),
P. 2, in Dunvegan Castle.) by an ambassador to one of the Kings of Ireland
desiring he should carry them in presence of his court on Christmas day
as a token of submission with threats of invading his territory if he did
not comply. The Irish king complied rather than hazard his kingdom to
the invasion of so powerful an enemy. Tempted by the favourable reports
of the country made by his ambassador, Magnus eventually invaded
Ireland but was killed in the very first engagement in August, 1104."