Brodar mac Torcaill

King of Dublin

Brodar mac Torcaill
King of Dublin
Reign	1148–1 July 1160
Predecessor	Óttar of Dublin
Successor	Ascall mac Ragnaill
Born	1104
Died	1 July 1160 Brega
House	Meic Torcaill
Father	Torcall

Brodar mac Torcaill (1104 – 1 July 1160),^[1] also known as Brodar Mac Turcaill,^[2] was a late twelfth century King of Dublin. He was a member of the Meic Torcaill, a substantial landholding kindred in the kingdom.^[3] His death in 1160,^[4] at the hands of the Meic Gilla Sechnaill of South Brega, is revealed by the thirteenth-century Cottonian Annals, the seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters, the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster, and the fourteenth-century Annals of Tigernach.^[5]

Citations

^ Woods (2013).
^ Woods (2013).
^ Downham (2013) p. 165.
^ Downham (2013) pp. 166, 178; Woods (2013) p. 33; Hudson (2002) p. 254.
^ Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1160.12; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1160.12; Downham (2013) pp. 166, 178; Woods (2013) p. 33; The Annals of Ulster (2012) § 1160.5; The Annals in Cotton MS (2010) § 1160; The Annals of Tigernach (2010) § 1160.5; The Annals of Ulster (2008) § 1160.5; Annals of Tigernach (2005) § 1160.5; Duffy (1992) p. 125 n. 159.

References

Primary sources

"Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (3 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013a. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
"Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (16 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013b. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
"Annals of Tigernach". Corpus of Electronic Texts (13 April 2005 ed.). University College Cork. 2005. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
"The Annals in Cotton MS. Titus A. XXV". Corpus of Electronic Texts (13 February 2010 ed.). University College Cork. 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
"The Annals of Tigernach". Corpus of Electronic Texts (2 November 2010 ed.). University College Cork. 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
"The Annals of Ulster". Corpus of Electronic Texts (29 August 2008 ed.). University College Cork. 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
"The Annals of Ulster". Corpus of Electronic Texts (15 August 2012 ed.). University College Cork. 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

Secondary sources

Hudson, B (2002). "Brjáns Saga". Medium Ævum. 71 (1): 241–285. doi:10.2307/43630435. eISSN 2398-1423. ISSN 0025-8385. JSTOR 43630435.
Downham, C (2013). "Living on the Edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the Twelfth Century". No Horns on Their Helmets? Essays on the Insular Viking-Age. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian Studies. Aberdeen: Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies and The Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Aberdeen. pp. 157–178. ISBN 978-0-9557720-1-6. ISSN 2051-6509.
Duffy, S (1992). "Irishmen and Islesmen in the Kingdoms of Dublin and Man, 1052–1171". Ériu. 43: 93–133. eISSN 2009-0056. ISSN 0332-0758. JSTOR 30007421.
Woods, A (2013). Economy and Authority: A Study of the Coinage of Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin and Ireland (PhD thesis). Vol. 1. University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.7489.

Regnal titles
Brodar mac Torcaill Meic Torcaill Died: 1160
Unknown Last known title holder: Ottar mac meic Ottair	King of Dublin ×1160	Unknown Next known title holder: Ascall mac Ragnaill