Harald (Aralt) King Of LIMERICK

Abt 897 - 940  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Harald (Aralt) King Of LIMERICK  [1]
  Born	Abt 897	Dublin, Eireann (Ireland)
  Gender	Male
  _UID	C78DE52A0F3949F4972418A32B75888107FF
  Died	940	Limerick, Ireland   [2]
  Person ID	I12624	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Sitric (Sygtrygg) Caoch King Of York & DUBLIN,   b. Abt 874, Dublin, Eireann (Ireland) ,   d. 927, York, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 53 years)
  Mother	Unknown First WIFE,   b. Abt 880, Ireland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5073	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The following is copied from Stewart Baldwin's website: King's of the Isle of Man: Note: Harald ("Aralt") is referred to as the grandson of Ivar in AI. CS calls him a son of the grandson of Ivar, i.e., of Sitric ("Aralt mac .h. Imair .i. mac Sitric, R? gall Luimnigh, do marbad la Connachto?bh"). If the account of CS is literally true, and the "grandson" of AI just means descendant in general, then Harald would probably be a brother of Olaf Cuaran, as shown in the table. However, Ivar also had a son named Sitric (d. 896), so if the "mac .h." is a mistake for just ".h." (a common abbreviation for the word "ua" ["grandson'] and its various declensions), then Harald may have been son of this earlier Sitric. Note 1: The Harald who was father of Godred is not identified in the primary sources, but the king of Limerick of that name seems like the most likely individual. In the list of the kings of Man, NHI (vol. 9, p. 466) suggests that the Harald who was father of Godred might have been Harald of Denmark (son of Gorm the Old), but this seems unlikely. Some would include a certain "Magnus", also a son of Harald, as another king during this period, but it is likely that this is a mistake. The existence of a "Magnus" son of Harald is given only in late sources, and seems to be a error for "mac Arailt" in the earlier sources, in which "mac" became "Maccus" and then "Magnus" in successive corruptions of the records. In further support of this, observe that the personal name "Magnus" is based on the Latin word magnus ("great"), and, if we are to give any credence to the account of Heimskringla, the name derives more directly from Charlemagne ("Carolus Magnus" in Latin), with king Magnus "the Good" of Norway being the first individual of that name. This would seem to exclude the possibility that a Viking bore that name as early as the tenth century. While it is possible that "Maccus" is a corruption of some other Scandinavian name, it seems much more likley that the "mac Arailt" who appears in the annals was the son of Harald about whom we already know, i.e., Goffraid mac Arailt.

  
  

• Sources

  [S826] Kings of the Isle of Man, GEN-MEDIEVAL/soc.genealogy.medieval, by Stewart Baldwin, www.rootsweb.com/~medieval/man.htm, Table 1: Kings of Dublin, also Table 2: Kings of Isles (Reliability: 3). [S826] Kings of the Isle of Man, GEN-MEDIEVAL/soc.genealogy.medieval, by Stewart Baldwin, www.rootsweb.com/~medieval/man.htm, Table 1: Kings of Dublin, also Table 2: Kings of the Isles (Reliability: 3).