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Chiren, also spelled Chyren and named as Selin and Seline, is a person who appears in the predictions of Nostradamus.Chiren would be a European, presumably from France.The arrival of this person would coincide with a great war bringing several decades of suffering.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 March 2025. French seer and astrologer (1503–1566) For other uses, see Nostradamus (disambiguation). Michel de Nostredame Portrait by his son César [fr], c. 1614, nearly fifty years after his death Born 14 or (1503-12-21) 21 December 1503 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, Kingdom of France Died 1 ...
It is also possible that Eiríkr, King of York from 947–948 and 952–5, was a ruler in the islands at some stage in the mid-10th century. [27] Eiríkr is believed by some authorities to be synonymous with the saga character Eric Bloodaxe, although the connection is questioned by Downham (2007), who argues that the former was an Uí Ímair dynast rather than a son of Harald Fairhair. [28]
The ancestor of many of the succeeding rulers of Mann and the Isles, he also became King of Dublin, [70] but no contemporary source refers either to him or any of his predecessors as "King of Mann and the Isles" as such. [Note 13] He was eventually ousted from Dublin by Muirchertach Ua Briain and fled to Islay, where he died in the plague of 1095.
Sumerledus with scribal abbreviations (Cambridge Corpus Christi College 139, folio ar). Somerled (died 1164), known in Middle Irish as Somairle, Somhairle, and Somhairlidh, and in Old Norse as Sumarliði [ˈsumɑrˌliðe], was a mid-12th-century Norse-Gaelic lord who, through marital alliance and military conquest, rose in prominence to create the Kingdom of Argyll and the Isles.
He was the son of Guðrøðr Rǫgnvaldsson, King of the Isles, son of Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles. Haraldr Guðrøðarson and his predecessors were members of the Crovan dynasty , and ruled an island-kingdom that encompassed the Mann and portions of the Hebrides , variously known as the Kingdom of the Isles or the Kingdom of ...
In 1250, Eóghan tried to obtain rulership of the Isle of Man, but was expelled by the inhabitants. He then travelled to Norway, hoping for recognition as King of the Isles. This attempt was unsuccessful. By 1255, King Henry III, King of England had secured a deal for Eóghan whereby he regained Lorne and came into full Scottish allegiance.
Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 29 June 1153) was a twelfth-century King of Mann and the Isles. [note 1] As a younger son of Guðrøðr Crovan, King of Dublin and the Isles, Óláfr witnessed a vicious power struggle between his elder brothers in the aftermath of their father's death.