| Name |
Coel Hen , King of Northern Britain |
| Alias/AKA |
Old King Cole, Caelius Votepacus153 |
| Birth Date |
ca 0350153 |
| Death Date |
ca 0420153 |
| Death Place |
Ayrshire, England |
| Death Memo |
drowned |
| Father |
Tehvant |
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| Notes for Coel Hen , King of Northern Britain |
"Coel Hen or Coel the Old is best remembered by the nursery rhyme, but the pipe would have been of the musical kind, and the bowl a drinking bowl. The fiddlers would have been harpists and not violinists ... . Roman writings comment on the hospitality of Britons who would invite a visitor in for a feast and music before talking business.
"Coel Hen was most likely the last of the Roman Duces Brittanniarum with his headquarters at York, and he did his best to carry on as the first King of Northern Britain when the Roman officials returned to Italy, leaving Britain and her people to fend for themselves. King Coel soon found himself fighting with a coalition of Picts and Scots who overran his forces about 420. Coel himself wandered in the unknown countryside until he eventually got caught in a bog at Coilsfield (in Tarbolton, Ayrshire) and drowned. After his death, Coel's Northern Kingdom was divided between two of his sons, Ceneu and Gorbanian."153 |
| Research Notes |
| BIRTH: His male parentage is confirmed with no birthdate or place given.149 |
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