After Somerled was killed at Renfrew in 1164, his sons divided the enormous territory he had built among themselves, creating the three main branches of the MacSorley kindred. Dougall took Lorn and Mull; Reginald took Islay and Kintyre; Angus took the southern Hebrides. This division was both practical and destabilising, as it generated inter-branch conflict that weakened the MacSorley position against the Scottish crown over the following century.
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