Coel Hen ("King Cole") Godhebog King Cole was King of Britain. He was King of the Britains. Coilus, his son, then ruled. He had been raised and educated as a Roman. Coilus was to rule his kingdom in peace and prosperity, being succeeded by his son Lucius. Taking up the crown on his father Coilus' death,
Romano-British ruler of Eboracum
founder of the city of Colchester in Essex, England. "Colchester" means "Cole's castle." king of the Britons following the reign of King Asclepiodotus. Yet another possibility is that Cole is the Celtic deity Camulus, god of war.
Geoffrey of Monmouth lists a King Cole in his Historia Regum Britanniae as a king of the Britons following the reign of King Asclepiodotus. The Welsh chronicles state further that his name was Coel Hen Godhebog, which would integrate the two possible names together. Monmouth states that Coel, upset with Asclepiodotus's handling of Diocletian's massacres, began a rebellion in the duchy of Kaelcolim(Colchester), of which he was duke. He met Asclepiodotus in battle and killed him, thus taking the kingship of Britain upon himself. Rome, apparently, was thrilled that Britain had a new king and sent a senator, Constantius Chlorus, to act as a diplomat to Coel. Afraid of the Romans, Coel met Constantius and agreed to pay tribute and submit to Roman laws as long as he was allowed to retain the kingship of Britain. Constantius agreed to these terms but one month later, Coel died. Constantius took Coel's daughter, Helena, and crowned himself as Coel's successor. Helen later gave birth to a sonwho became Emperor Constantine the Great.
Note that the Historia Regum Britanniae is not generally considered historically accurate.
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King of Britain
King Maric's son Coell Hen (Old King Colel) succeeded him in 125 AD.
Coell Hen's great grand daughter, Aiofe, married Fiacha Strabhtein, the 120th Monarch of Ireland. The parents and grandparents of Aiofe are unknown. (Gilbet M. Lakey)
OIJD KING COLE
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! And every fiddler, he had a fine
fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he. "Twee tweedle dee, twiddle dee, "
went the fiddlers.
Oh, there's none so rare As can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three.
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Other source birth About 350 died About 420
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# ID: I05452
# Name: King COEL 1 2
# Sex: M
# Birth: APR in Camulod, , , England
# Death: in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
# Name: Coel COELCHESTER 3
# Name: Coel I of COLCHESTER 4 5
# Name: Coel HEN GODEBOG I 6
# Name: Coel COELCHESTER 7
# Name: Coel Godhebog Decurian of Colchester GODHEBOG 8
# Birth: 232 in Camulod, England 1
# Birth: 232 in Camulod,,,England
# Birth: 80 in Britian, King Of, Siluria
# Birth: ABT 80 in , Colchester, Dedham, Essex, England
# Birth: 232 in Camulod,,,England
# Birth: 125 in Coel Castra, Essex, Colchester
# Birth: 218 in Colchester, Bythnia, Britain
# Death: 262
# Death: 262
# Death: 170 in Britian, King Of, Siluria
# Death: 170
# Death: 170 in , Colchester, Dedham, Essex, England
# Death: 262 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Father: King Meric Marius SAINT Cyllin of SILURIA b: 17 in BC, King, Britian
Mother: Julia Victoria verch PRASUTAGUS OF THE ICENI b: 61 in Venta, Norfolk, , England
Father: Cadvan DE CAMBRIA b: in Cambria, , , England
Mother: Gladys VERCH MAWR
Marriage 1 Strada CADWLLADR b: 220 in Cambria, Wales
Children
1. Has Children St Helena of the CROSS b: SEP 248 in Colchester, Essex, , England
Marriage 2 Strada The FAIR b: 225 in ,,Cumbria,England
* Married: 205
Children
1. Has Children Helen De La CROX b: 248 in Drepanum, Bithynia, Asia Minor
2. Has No Children Helen DE LA CROX b: 248 in Drepanum,Bithynia,Asia Minor,
Marriage 3 Ystradwl OF SILURIA b: BEF 100 in AD
Children
1. Has Children LUCIUS b: 28 MAY 137 in , of Colchester, Dedham, Essex, England
Marriage 4 Princess Gladys Ystradwel of SILURIA
Children
1. Has Children Lleiffer MAWR b: 28 MAY 137 in England
Marriage 5 STRADA b: 225 in Cumbria, England
Children
1. Has Children Flavia Julia HELENA b: 248 in Drepanum, Bithynia, Asia Minor
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Old King Cole, made famous through history, was found to have ascended his throne about 238 A.D., even then a hereditary king of Britain. He reigned over that portion of territory known today as Essex and Hertfordshire, and vicinity, with his capital at Colnaecester, formerly the Roman city of Camulodunum, and the present town of Colchester. He very shortly added to his holdings the principality of North Wales, through his marriage to Seradwin, its heiress, a princess descended from the royal house of Eudda, whence came the line:
"Pendragon Kings of Uther's royal race,"
among them the celebrated King Arthur.
The wife of King Cole was the only daughter of Cadfan, son of Conan ap Eudda, King of Wales.
Three children were born to them; the oldest, Tiboen, later famous as Helena; Guala or Julia; and the third, a prince who bore the maternal family designation of Conan or Cenan ap Coel. (Rowland's Mona Antiqua.)
The Prince, on his father's death, retired to rule over the northern territories acquired by his mother Seradwin, which are placed by one of the historians at the wall of Antoninus. (Carte.) His career has been lost sight of to a great extent through the difficulties of the language and the brilliant fate of his two sisters, which had taken the attention of historians since. It will be an interesting search for someone later, who knows the language and will take the time to go through all the old documents available, especially those of Wales.
Of his two sisters, one, the eldest, was destined to create a new line of Emperors of Roman territory, and the other to transmit to her descendants that imperial dignity, which, through the royal blood of the Pendragon family, descended to Cadwallader, the last British Prince of Wales of Roman descent, and then went on to the Tudors, of whom Henry the Seventh was the first, and Queen Victoria a most recent distinguished member. (Gibbon.)
It is in the life of Tiboen or Helena the eldest, that we have much of interest to relate. She was educated and fitted by her father to succeed him. Beautiful and brilliant though she was, she was destined to be the storm center and target for political attack much of her life; and as such, to be the victim later of the pens of more than seventy historians, most of whom, apparently, failed to seethe source of the attacks made upon her, or the reason for them. So clearly do these facts stand out before the unbiased reader of today, that one marvels at the thinness of the mists which were permitted to obscure them at all. He was born in 100 in Britain. He died in 170, at age ~90.
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