Olafr Godredsson (1095-1153) was King of Sudreyjar from 1110 to 1153, succeeding Lagmann mac Gofraid and preceding Gudrodr Olafsson.
Biography[]
Olafr Godredsson was born in 1095, a son of Godred Crovan and the brother of Lagmann mac Gofraid. As a youth, he was entrusted to King Henry I of England, and he and the future Scottish kings Alexander I and David I became the King's proteges. He became King of Sudreyjar in 1110 on the death of his brother Lagmann, and he married Affraic of Galloway, forging a marital alliance with Galloway in southern Scotland. He founded the Catholic Diocese of the Isles and presided over a peaceful reign, but his assassination by rival claimants on the Isle of Man in 1153 led to a succession struggle.