Turgesius

Turgesius (or “Turgeis”) (i.e Thorkell or Thorgils ) was a conqueror Viking, known to have taken by the force the rural community of Dublin, would have arrived first once in Ireland in 820.

In 837, it returns there, accompanied this time by a fleet of 120 ships. sixty of them go up the river Boyne, the sixty others the river Liffey. According to annals of the time, this formidable military force gathers under its authority. Unknown in its own country, all the accounts relative to its conquètes are in Ireland and in the British Isles. On their arrival in Dublin, his men seize this community of fishermen and farmers and set up a strong solid according to the Scandinavian methods of construction, on the hill where the current castle of Dublin is. Since its fortified town, Turgesius launches new conquests in the Leinster, the Munster, and the Wales.

Thereafter, it installs centers of operations inside the grounds, building one of its principal forts on banks of the Lough Ree to extend its influence on the river Shannon, in the north of Athlone. Another major site is that of Lyndwachill, on the Lough Neagh; other forts scatter towards the south-west of the Lough Lene. Turgesius will extremely build finally imposing on the principal island of this same lake, dominating the grounds of Leinster.

In the year 843, the Irish king Niall Caille mac Áeda undertakes to defend as it can his ancestral province, the Ulster, against ceaseless the Raid S Vikings. He will end up overcoming the army of Turgesius, and this last after having plundered the Connacht the Mide, Clonmacnoise and several other abbeys in 845 will be captured then carried out the same year, by Melaghlin.

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