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Apr 19, 2021 · Father: Coel Hen. Coel Hen (the old), "appears in the Harleian genealogies and the later pedigrees known as the Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd (The Descent of the Men of the North) at the head of several post-Roman royal families of the Hen Ogledd. His line, collectively called the Coeling, included Urien, king of Rheged; Gwallog, perhaps king of Elmet ...
When King Coel III Hen ap Guotepauc Of Britain was born about 0340, in Northumbria, England, his father, King Guotepauc ap Techmant Of Britain, was 22 and his mother, Wladysus Ferch Edenowen, was 41. He had at least 5 sons and 3 daughters with Ystradwel verch Cadfan. He died on 19 November 0420, in Tarbolton, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United ...
Nov 19, 2023 · Coel (Old Welsh: Coil) or Coel Hen ("Coel the Old") is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages.Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen (Coel the Old), a leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd ("the Old North"), the Brittonic-speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland.
When Saint Kenau ap Coel Hen was born about 0380, in Cumberland, England, his father, Coel Hen ap Guotepauc, was 42 and his mother, Ystradwel verch Cadfan, was 32. He married Queen Generis verch Coel Hen "Candalou" in 0415, in Wales. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters.
(Information by Peter Kessler, with Coel Hen's ancestry supplied by Mick Baker, and additional information by Edward Dawson, from History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth, from The Oxford History of England: The English Settlements, J N L Meyers, from the Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons), Nennius (J A Giles, Ed & Trans, 1841, published as part of Six Old English ...
l. 945 Gweirydd. l. 975 Coel. l. 1005 Llewelyn Aurdorchog, Lord of Ial and Ystrad Alun. The eldest son of Llewelyn Aurdorchog, Llewelyn Fychan, became the 2nd Lord of Ial around 1065 and he was followed by his eldest son, Ithel Felyn. Hwfa, son of Ithel Felyn was born c. 1095 and held the Lordship of Ial until the mid-12th century and was ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Further speculation connects Old King Cole and thus Coel Hen to Colchester, but in fact Colchester was not named for Coel Hen. Connecting with the musical theme of the nursery rhyme, according to a much later source, Coel Hen supposedly had a daughter who was skilled in music, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth , writing in the 12th century.
