Sigtrygg Silkbeard
Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin · Lived 970 to 1042 · aged 72
Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson was a Hiberno-Norse king of Dublin of the Uí Ímair dynasty. He was caught up in the abortive Leinster revolt of 999-1000, after which he was forced to submit to the King of Munster, Brian Boru.
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A posthumous "Sihtric" coin from the British Museum, minted at Dublin c. 1050
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The medieval tower of the stone church of Ardbraccan, County Meath, in which Sigtrygg burned over 200 men
Christ Church Cathedral, founded by Sigtrygg c.1028About this person
His family also conducted a double-marriage alliance with Boru, although he later realigned himself with the main leaders of the Leinster revolt of 1012-1014. He has a prominent role in the 12th-century Irish medieval text Cogadh Gaedhil re Gallaibh and the 13th-century Icelandic Njal's Saga, as the main Norse leader at the Battle of Clontarf (1014).