Note 388 — Chapter III · THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND. 795–1172.

At the time of Donatus’s appointment in 1040, one Sihtric ruled in Dublin (see Lanigan, Eccles. Hist. Ireland, vol. iii. pp. 434, 435)—doubtless under the overlordship of Dermot. On Dermot’s death the Ostmen flung off the Irish supremacy and took for their king, first a jarl named Godred, who died in 1072, and then another of the same name, who seems to have been already king of Man. (Freeman, as above, p. 528 and note 5). Lanfranc addresses this Godred as “King of Ireland” (Lanfranc, Ep. 43, Giles, vol. i. p. 61); and no other prince is mentioned in connexion with Patrick’s consecration. But it is plain from Lanfranc’s correspondence, if from nothing else, that Terence O’Brien was acknowledged overlord of Dublin for some time before his death (see Lanfranc, Ep. 44, ib. p. 62; and Lanigan, as above, p. 474 et seq.); and he died in 1086.