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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 qui selon la tradition avait épousé une fille de Gadeon ab Eudaf Hen serait selon le « Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd » l'ancêtre de nombreux rois du nord de l'île de Bretagne par ses deux fils : Ceneu mab Coel et Garbanion ap Coel [1]. Selon la légende sa fille Gwawl dont le nom signifie le Mur aurait été l'épouse de Cunedda.
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Feb 7, 2023 · Birthplace: England. Death: November 19, 420 (75-84) Coilsfield, Tarbolton, England. Immediate Family: Son of Tegfan Tasciovanus ap Deheuwaint. Husband of Ystradwel "the Fair" verch Gadeon, of Rheged. Father of Gwawl verch Coel; Garbanian ap Coel, King of Bryneich; Dyfrwr ap Coel and Ceneu ap Coel Hen, Saint, Brenin Rheged & Catraeth.
Selon les « Généalogies des Hommes du Nord » Coel Hen serait l'ancêtre de nombreux rois du nord de l'île de Bretagne par ses deux fils: Ceneu mab Coel et Garbanion ap Coel.Selon la légende sa fille Gwawl dont le nom signifie le Mur aurait été l'épouse de Cunedda.
King of Northern Britain. 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. He is also a familiar figure in ancient Welsh genealogies, for most of the Celtic ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Coel Hen, King of Northern Britain lived from about c.350 to c.420. His name appeared variously: (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.
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Apr 1, 1999 · Coel seems to have made his headquarters at Britain's northern capital of Eboracum (York), and if tradition is to be believed then he imposed his power over a great swathe of the country - the entire militarised northern zone, in fact. Coel Hen can be considered by means of surviving tradition to be the first king in, and of, 'Northern Britain'.
