[384] That is, he was certainly not consecrated in England; Lanigan, _Eccles. Hist. Ireland_, vol. iii. pp. 433–436. But might he not have been consecrated by some of the bishops in Scotland and the Isles, with which the Ostmen were in constant intercourse and alliance? [385] Tighernach, a. 1074 (O’Conor, _Rer. Hibern. Scriptt._), vol. ii. p. 309. Four Masters, a. 1074 (O’Donovan, vol. ii. p. 907). [386] Eng. Chron. (Worc.) a. 1067, 1068; Flor. Worc. (Thorpe), vol. ii. p. 2; Ord. Vit. (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._), p. 513; Will. Jumièges, l. vii. c. 41 (_ib._ p. 290); Freeman, _Norm. Conq._, vol. iv. pp. 225–227, 243–245, 788–790. [387] He fell in battle with the king of Meath in 1072, according to the Four Masters _ad ann._ (O’Donovan, vol. ii. pp. 901–903), and the Ann. Loch Cé (Hennessy, vol. i. p. 67). The Chron. Scot. (Hennessy, p. 291) places his death in 1069; Mr. Freeman (as above, p. 245) adopts this date. [388] 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. [389] Lanfranc, Ep. 43 (as above, p. 61). Eng. Chron. Winch., Appendix (Thorpe, vol. i. p. 387). Cf. Lanigan, as above, pp. 457, 458. [390] Lanigan, _Eccles. Hist. Ireland_, vol. iii. pp. 464–466. [391] _Ib._ p. 458. Eng. Chron. Winch., Appendix (Thorpe, vol. i. p. 387). [392] Eadmer, _Hist. Nov._ (Rule), pp. 76, 77. Cf. Lanigan, as above, vol. iv. pp. 15, 16.