Mann

Mann was an island lordship in the Irish Sea, once the centre of the Norse-Gaelic Kingdom of the Isles. In 1337 William Montagu ruled as King of Mann and became Earl of Salisbury.

English control became definitive in 1346; the lordship passed to the Crown in 1399 and to the Stanley family in 1405. In 1765 the inheriting dukes of Atholl sold their rights to the Crown, while the island's Tynwald continued to govern internal affairs.