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Has 32 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Coel (Coilus) Hen |
| Nickname |
Old King Cole, The Old |
| Birth |
Abt 350 |
Wales  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
94RX-ZVJ |
| Death |
Abt 420 |
Coilsfield, Ayrshire, Scitland |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I12779 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Coel Hen or Coel the Old, the son of Tegfan, was a Celtic ruler who liv e d around the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries at the time of th e de parture of the Roman legions from Britain.
He imposed his power over a large area of the country, Coel's territor y e xtended over the whole of the north of England from a line joining Ch este r and Wash and up into what is today southern Scotland. Coel's assoc iatio n with the north of Britain has led to the suggestion that he may h ave be en the last of the Roman Duces Brittanniarum with his headquarter s at Yor k.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (History of the Kin g s of Britain) cites Coel as the King of the Britons following the reig n o f King Asclepiodotus. According to Geoffrey, Coel, annoyed by Asclepi odot us's handling of the Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most sev ere p ersecution of Christians in the Roman empire, started a rebellion i n Cae r Colun (most likely Colchester). He clashed with Asclepiodotus i n battl e and killing him, assumed his title of high-king of Britain.
According to the Harleian genealogies and the later genealogies are kno w n as the Bonedd Gwyr y Gogledd (The Descent of the Men of the North), C oe l Hen was married to Ystradwal, the daughter of Cadfan, and was the an ces tor of several lines of kings in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", the B ryth onic Celtic speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland . Hi s descendants, known as the Coeling, included Urien of Rheged son o f Cynf arch Oer, Urien, a late sixth-century warrior king of North Rheged , of wh om the Welsh Triads list as one of the "Three Great Battle-leader s of Bri tain". Other descendants of Coel include Gwallog, possibly kin g of Elmet ; the brothers Gwrgi and Peredur; and Clydno Eiddin, king of E idyn or Edi nburgh. He was also thought to be the father-in-law of Cunedd a, founder o f the kingdom of Gwynedd in North Wales, by his daughter Gwa wl. The genea logies bestow the epithet Godebog, on Coel meaning the "Pro tector".
The song was first recorded by William King in his Useful Transaction s i n Philosophy in 1708–9.
The most common modern version of the rhyme is:
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.
Every fiddler he had a fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh there's none so rare, as can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three
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