Tags: Monarch.
Somerled (died 1164) (from Old Norse Sumarliði with English variant Sorley via Gaelic Somairle Somhairle or Somhairlidh) was a mid-twelfth-century warlord who through marital alliance and military conquest rose in prominence and seized control of the Kingdom of the Isles. Little is certain of Somerled’s origins although he appears to have belonged to a Norse-Gaelic family of some substance.
