Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
NameKing Coel Hen old King of Britain , 44G Grandfather
Birthca 350
Deathca 430
OccupationKing of Britain (North)
Spouses
Birthca 360
OccupationPrincess of Britain (Dumnoia)
ChildrenGwawl (ca384-ca450)
Notes for King Coel Hen old King of Britain
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 Brittonic-speaking area of what is now northern England and southern Scotland.

Other similarly named characters may be confused or conflated with the Welsh Coel. The legendary "King Coel" is sometimes supposed to be the historical basis for the popular nursery rhyme "
Old King Cole", but this has been said to be unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coel_Hen
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