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Coel (Old Welsh: Coil), also called Coel Hen (Coel the Old) and King Cole, is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages. Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen, a c. 4th-century leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in Yr Hen Ogledd (the Old North), a region of the ...
Coel Hen, King of Northern Britain. (Died c. 420) (Welsh: Coel; Latin: Coelius; English: Cole) Coel Hen or Coel the Old is known to most of us through the famous nursery rhyme: Old King Cole was a merry old soul. And a merry old soul was he. He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers, three.
Coel Hen or Coel the Old, the son of Tegfan, was a Celtic ruler who lived around the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries at the time of the departure of the Roman legions from Britain.
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Mar 13, 2023 · Coel Hen, or “Coel the Old,” was a Welsh-born king of northern England sometime toward the end of the Roman rule of Great Britain, in the 4th to 5th century. According to some accounts, he...
Feb 29, 2024 · Husband of Ystrafael ferch Cadfan — married [date unknown] [location unknown] Descendants. Father of Gwawl (Coel) ferch Coel Hen, Garbonian (ap Coel) ap Coel Hen and Ceneu ap Coel. Died about 0420 at about age 80 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Ancient Britain.
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Apr 1, 1999 · Coel Hen can be considered by means of surviving tradition to be the first king in, and of, 'Northern Britain'. It seems to have been he who oversaw the transition from direct Roman rule to an independent Britain which now took care of its own defence.
Coel , also called Coel Hen and King Cole, is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages. Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen, a c. 4th-century leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in Yr Hen Ogledd , a region of the Brittonic-speaking area of what is now northern ...
