Marriage and The Building of The Lordship
Fergus is known to have had in his lifetime two wives, the names of both being unknown. By these wives, though, three children are known:
- Gille Brigte
- Uchtred
- Affraic, wife to Olaf I Godredsson, King of Mann.
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