Applecross Princess of House of Tarah

• Preferred Name: Applecross Princess of House of Tarah^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: DECEASED
  
• Birth: ABT 855 in Ireland, Orkney, Scotland at LATI: N8.9676 LONG: E3.2115
  
• FSID: LBKP-ZSD
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The copyrighted book, Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland, by C Thomas Cairney, PhD, 1989, clarifies that the Viking Helgi Bjolan "Beolan" was "namesake" of the O'Beolan Abbots of Applecross (the ancestors of the Earls of Ross). However they favored the Irish side (the O' in the name) to maintain peerage as follows:
  "The earlier Pictish abbots of Applecross were probably "co-arbs" (bloodrelated successors) of St. Mael Rubha in the Pictish mode of matrilineal descent. Since Applecross, as a Celtic tribal abbey, was continuously active throughout he Viking period, we can infer a similar continuity of co-arbial succession among its abbots. Therefore the O’Beolains, despite a patrilineal connection to Helgi Bjolan (which would have served them well at the time), represent continuity with the old line. Surnames in the earlier "0" form came into use in Ireland in the tenth century..." (http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/37.htm).
  
  Note: St. Maelrubha arrived on the shores of Wester Ross from Ireland about 671 and established the continuous Abbey of Applecross as previously noted. This source above would mean a mixed Viking/House of Tara descendant at some point became the hereditary Abbot of Applecross, related on the female line back to Ireland. To happen this way the full Viking Helgi Bjolan "Beolan" probably had a marriage alliance to an Applecross Princess as implied. Marriage alliances were a thing of the times for Vikings...
  
  Here is more from Cairney's copyrighted book about the O'Beolain patrilineal connection to Helgi Bjolan as follows: "...Helgi, the son of Ketill Flatnefr, nine-century Norse ruler of the Hebrides, was himself known by the Gaelic nickname of "Bjolan" (Beolain), nicknames being the usual second element in Norse personal names. Nor should we be surprised to find that Helgi Bjolan’s relatives brought Christianity to Iceland in the ninth century. The very survival of Applecross as an abbey on the coast of Viking Ross points to fortuitous Norse patronage. Helgi Bjolan is undoubtedly the namesake of the O’Beolains, since his father was ruler of the Hebrides (Applecross faces these) and his nephew was King of Ross. Beolain is certainly not a typical Gaelic name...
  The main line of the co-arbial abbots of Applecross later became vested in the Earldom of Ross under the Normanized Kings..."
  
  Comment: The source also says in effect (p. 36), and in context of Helgi Bjolan and the O'Beolans, that Viking royalty often married Celtic princesses as a way to enhance their local control. (King and Princess also applied to tribes when you go back far enough.) In addition the source refers to an unidentified King of Ross. Most likely he was the deceased warrior son of Helgi's sister Aud the Deep minded, Thorstein the Red, who had for a time conquered Ross and some other parts of Scotland.
  
  Les Ross

1. Bjolan "Beolan" , b. 886 in Hebrides, Scotland     d. DECEASED

1. Title: Earls of Ross from Bjolan/O'Beolan, "Ancestry.com"
   Publication: Name: https://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.ross/10058/mb.ashx;
   Page: A Bjolan married into the Irish royal House of Tara.
   
2. Title: Ancesters of Gilleoin na h' Airde from Charter, name Mc Cormach, "History of the MacKenzies"
   Author: http://www.fullbooks.com/History-Of-The-Mackenzies1.htm History Of The Mackenzies by Alexander Mackenzie Part 1 out of 12
   Publication: Name: http://www.fullbooks.com/History-Of-The-Mackenzies1.html;
   Note: Here are excerpts extracted from MacKenzie's History pertaining to King Bjolan and Gilleoin na h' Airde. Gilleoin and Beollon are the same word he says. And some ancestry is provided from a charter by William, Earl of Ross, including an ancestor Mc Cormac. "in one of the Norse Sagas the progenitor of Ferquhard is designated "King," just the same as the great Somerled and some of his descendants had been called at a later date. Referring to Helgi, son of Ottar, the Landnamabok Saga records that "he made war upon Scotland and carried off prisoner Nidbjorga, the daughter of King Bjolan, and of Kadliner, daughter or Ganga Rolf," or Rollo, who, as already stated, afterwards became the celebrated Earl of Normandy... ...It is established to the satisfaction of all reasonable men that the Applecross and O'Beolan Earls of Ross were one and the same, and that they were descended from Gilleoin na h' Airde, corrupted in the Norse Sagas into "Beolan," the general designation by which they were known, until Earl William, the last of his line, died without surviving male issue on the 9th of February, 1372, when the title devolved upon his daughter, Euphemia, Countess of Ross in her own right, whose daughter, Mary, or Margaret, by Sir Walter Leslie, carried the earldom to Donald of Harlaw, second Lord of the Isles. That the O'Beolan Earls of Ross, of whom Ferquhard Mac an t'Sagairt was the first, descended from the same ancestor, Gilleoin na h' Airde, as the older "Gillandres" earl of 1160, is equally certain... ...Gilleon na h'Airde, the "Beolan" of the Norse Sagas, who lived in the tenth century." ...The genealogy of the Clan Andres or Rosses in the manuscript of 1467, is as follows: "Pol ic Tire, ic Eogan, ic Muiredaigh, ic Poil, ic Gilleanrias, ic Martain, ic Poil, ic Cainig, ic Cranin, ic Eogan, ic Cainic, ic Cranin, McGilleoin na h'Airde, ic Eirc, ic Loirn, ic Fearchar, Mc Cormac, ic Abertaig, ic Feradaig." Dr Skene's translation - "Paul son of Tire, son of Ewen, son of Murdoch, son of Paul, son of Gillanrias, son of Martin, son of Paul, son of Kenneth, son of Crinan, son of Ewen, son of Kenneth, son of Crinan, son of Gilleoin of the Aird, son of Erc, son of Lorn, son of Ferchar, son of Cormac, son of Oirbeirtaigh, son of Feradach." The Mackenzie genealogy in the same MS. is - "Muiread ic Cainig, Mc Eoin, ic Cainig, ic Aengusa, ic Cristin, ic Agam, Mc Gilleoin Qig, ic Gilleon na h'Aird." Skene's translation follows - "Murdoch son of Kenneth, son of John, son of Kenneth, son of Angus, son of Cristin, son of Adam, son of Gilleoin Og, son of Gilleoin of the Aird." Skene makes an important correction on this genealogy in his later work, 'Celtic Scotland,' Vol. III., p. 485, by substituting Cainig - Kenneth, for Agam - Adam, in his original reading. In this form the genealogy of 1467 corresponds exactly, so far as it goes, with that given by MacVuirich in the Black Book of Clanranald. In 1222 "Gilchrist filius Kinedi," Gillecriosd son of Kenneth, is on record as a follower of MacWilliam. Cristean is the ordinary Gaelic form of Christopher, otherwise Gilchrist, or Gillecriosd. There is thus no doubt that the "Cristin" of the Gaelic genealogy is the same name as Gillecriosd, Gilchrist, and Christopher. In the MacVuirich manuscript, however, several names are given between Gilleoin Og and Gilleoin na h'Airde which are absent from the manuscript of 1467; for while we have thirteen generations in the Clan Anrias or Ross genealogy in the latter between Paul Mac Tire and Gilleoin of the Aird, we have only eight in the Mackenzie genealogy between Murdoch of the Cave, who was contemporary with Mac Tire, and their common ancestor Gilleoin of the Aird, or Beolan. In the MacVuirich manuscript there are fifteen generations, translated thus - "Murdoch son of Kenneth, son of John, son of Kenneth, son of Angus 'crom,' or the hump-backed, son of Kenneth, son of Gilleoin Og, son of Gilleoin Mor, or the Great, son of Murdoch, son of Duncan, son of Murdoch, son of Duncan, son of Murdoch, son of Kenneth, son of Cristin, or Christopher, son of Gilleoin of the Aird." The genealogies of the three families as brought out by these manuscripts, are shown in the following table:-- GILLEOIN OF THE AIRD. | +------------------------------+------------------+ |CLAN ANRIAS. | MACKENZIES. | +------------------------------+------------------+ | Crinan | Cristin | | Kenneth | Kenneth | | Ewen | Murdoch | | Crinan | Duncan | | Kenneth | Murdoch | | Paul | Duncan | | Martin | Murdoch | | Gillanrias | Gilleoin Mor | +---------|--------------------| Gilleoin Og | | | Kenneth | +-------------------+------------------+ | Angus Crom | | EARLS OF ROSS | ROSSES | | Kenneth | +-------------------+------------------+ | John | | The Priest-"An | Paul | | Kenneth | | Sagart" | Murdoch | | Murdoch of the | | I. Ferquhard "Mac | Ewen | | Cave who died | | an t'Sagairt" | Tire | | in 1375 | | II. William | Paul Mac Tire | +------------------+ | III. William | who has a | | IV. Hugh | charter of the | | V. William who | lands of | | died in 1372 | Garloch from | | | the Earl of | | | Ross in 1366, | | | confirmed in | | | 1372."
   
3. Title: King Beollán mac Ciarmaic, Irish text, An Banshenchas, "Wikipedia'
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo;
   Note: "According to the medieval Irish text An Banshenchas and Icelandic sources, another daughter, Cadlinar (Kaðlín; Kathleen) was born in Scotland (probably to a Scots mother) and married an Irish prince named Beollán mac Ciarmaic, later King of South Brega (Lagore). A daughter of Cadlinar and Beollán named Nithbeorg was abducted by an Icelandic Viking named Helgi Ottarsson,[24][25] and became the mother of the poet Einarr Helgason and grandmother of Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir (protagonist of the Laxdœla saga)."
   
4. Title: The O'Beolains of Ross, "Clans and families of Ireland and Scotland," ElectricScotland.com
   Author: http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/37.htm
   Publication: Name: http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/37.htm;
   Page: Source states Vikingsmarried Scottish princesses.
   
5. Title: Modern translation, Clan Gillander genealogy, "www.1467manuscript.co.uk/kindred%2014.html."
   Publication: Name: http://www.1467manuscript.co.uk/kindred%2014.html;
   
6. Title: O'Beolan Connection to Iceland, Douglas Ross post
   Publication: Name: http://www.ross-ter.com/Tales/Vikings/O'BeolanVikingConnection.html;
   
7. Title: Prince Beollan son of King Mac Cairmac of Lagore, Ireland, "Viking Pirates and Christian Princes" By Benjamin T. Hudson
   Author: p. 64
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=fH0mL0m95fsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=An+Banshenchas+king+beollan&source=bl&ots=t6_aDvkQcd&sig=8Lp0uCX1NF6W9vjDu2Oi6_1M9C4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuhOHOs7TRAhXhlFQKHUHzB48Q6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=An%20Banshenchas%20king%20beollan&f=false;
   Note: This work speaks of King Mac Cairmac of Lagore (County Meath Ireland and his son Prince Beollan who were captured in 969 in battle and slane. And lt speaks of Nithbeorg, daughter of the King of South Brega of the "treacherous Vikings. Notes: 1. 669 is too late to be the same as Bjolan of the Viking saga born 885. 2. This is Irish comfirmation that Nidbjorg existed, and that Beollan was also in Ireland (and Scotland).
   
8. Title: Beollán son of Ciarmac, king of Loch Gabor, Clan Cernaich Sottail (of the Sil Áeda Sláine), "Kingdom of Meade...Rootsweb.ancestry.com"
   Publication: Name: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/suineill.htm;
   Note: "Sil Áeda Sláine Aedh Sláine, in descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages, and a sovereign of Ireland in the 6th century. Branches of the Sil Áeda Sláine included Mac Giolla Seachloinn (Mac Glaughlin, later confused with MacLoughlin) and Ua hAirt (O'Hart), Ua Congalaig (O'Connolly), among others... "...U1013, Gilla Mo-Chonna son of Fogartach, king of southern Brega, died" ------------------- "Loch Gabor Clan Cernaich Sottail appear to have been early kings of Loch Gabor, in Deisceart Breagh. Loch Gabor is described as a lake (now dried up) northeast of Dunshaughlin, in modern county Meath. Clan Cernaich Sottail (of the Sil Áeda Sláine) genealogy: (Rawlinson) Gilla Mo Chonna m. Fogartaich m. Ciarmeicc m. Congalaich m. Fócarta m. Máel Dúin m. Fergusa m. Fogartaich (c.724) m. Néill m. Cernaich Sottail m. Diarmata Ruanada m. Áeda Sláine m. Diarmata m. Fergusa Cerrbéoil m. Conaill Cremthainni m. Néill Noígiallaig..." "...CS969, Beollán son of Ciarmac, king of Loch Gabor, dies. Note: Compare to Wikipedia, Kings of Brega, for similarities and differences.
   
9. Title: Chief O'Beolan, Ancestor of the O'Beolans Earls of Ross, "Scotsconnection.com"
   Publication: Name: https://www.scotsconnection.com/clan_crests/Ross.htm;
   
10. Title: Kings of South Lagore, "wikivisually.com/wiki/Loch_Gabhair"
    Publication: Name: http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Loch_Gabhair;