Kings of Dublin

Infobox Former Country
conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Dublin
common_name = Dublin
continent = Europe
country = Ireland
government_type = Monarchy|
year_start = 839
year_end = 1171
event_start =
date_start =
event_end =
date_end =
event_post =
date_post = |
p1 = Gaelic Ireland
flag_p1 = Flag President of Ireland.svg
s1 = Leinster
flag_s1 = Flag of Leinster.svg
s2 =
flag_s2 = |

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image_flag_caption = Raven Banner [The raven banner was used by a number of Kings of Dublin, including Olaf Cuaran. It was not a "viking flag" nor the "national flag" of the Kingdom "per se". For more information, see Raven_flag#Use_in_Orkney.2C_Dublin_and_Jorvik.]




image_map_size = 200px
image_map_caption = Map depicting Dublin and in green other Norse settlements.
capital = Dublin
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national_motto =
national_anthem =
common_languages = Old Norse,
Old / Middle Irish
religion = Norse Paganism
Roman Catholicism|
leader1 = Thorgest
year_leader1 = 839–845 (first)
leader2 = Hasculf Thorgillsson
year_leader2 = 1160–1171 (last)
title_leader = King
footnotes =The Vikings invaded the territory around Dublin ("Dubh Linn"; "Black Pool") in the ninth century, establishing the Norse Kingdom of Dublin. This corresponded to most of present-day County Dublin. Norse Rulers of Dublin were often co-kings, and occasionally also Kings of Jorvik in what is now England. The region was known to the Vikings as "Dyflin", pronounced "dyoov-lin" (in either Old Norse or Modern Norwegian). The English later took Old Irish "Dubh Linn" and collapsed it to the modern "Dublin"Fact|date=February 2007. Manx still uses "Divlyn".

In 988, High King Mael Seachlainn II led the initial Irish conquest of the Norse Kingdom of Dublin, giving the place its modern name in Irish—"Baile Átha Cliath", meaning "Town at the Hurdle Ford." Thus, the founding of Dublin is counted from the year 988, notwithstanding a village has existed on the site of Dublin since before the Roman occupation of Great Britain nearly a thousand years earlier.

Mael Seachlainn II was dethroned by Brian Boru, 1002-1014, and the Norse kept fighting back—so the Irish conquest of Dublin was never complete. Irish dominance of Dublin did take hold in the middle of the eleventh century, under the kings of Leinster; but the city still had a Norse king until the Norman invasion of 1171, and native Ireland itself was in the throes of the regnal wars over the high kingship since the death of Mael Seachlainn II in 1022. Though the last Norse king of Dublin was killed by the Normans in 1171, the population of the city retained their distinctiveness based on their origins for some further generations.

Norse Kings

(N.B. "Sitric" is the Irish variant of Norwegian "Sigtrygg")

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