Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameCoel Hên Godebog King Of Britain, 43G Grandfather
FatherTehvant
Web Notes notes for Coel Hên Godebog King Of Britain
From Wikipedia:
King Cole or Coel is the name of a figure, or multiple figures with similar names, prominent in British literature and legend since the Middle Ages. Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen (Coel the Old), a leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd ("the Old North"), the Brythonic-speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland.
Later medieval legend told of a Coel, apparently derived from Coel Hen, who was the father of Saint Helena and the grandfather of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Other similarly named characters may be confused or conflated with the Welsh Coel. The traditional "King Coel" may be the historical basis for the popular nursery rhyme "Old King Cole".
Coel Hen appears in the Harleian genealogies and the later pedigrees known as the Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd (The Descent of the Men of the North) at the head of several post-Roman royal families of the Hen Ogledd. His line, collectively called the Coeling, included such noted figures as Urien, king of Rheged; Gwallog, perhaps king of Elmet; the brothers Gwrgi and Peredur, and Clydno Eiddin, king of Eiddin or Edinburgh. He was also considered to be the father-in-law of Cunedda, founder of Gwynedd in North Wales, by his daughter Gwawl. The genealogies give him the epithet Godebog, meaning "Protector" or "Shelterer". The poem Y Gododdin mentions some enmity between the "Sons of Godebog" and the heroes who fought for the Gododdin at the Battle of Catraeth.
According to Welsh tradition the region of Kyle was named for Coel, and a mound at Coylton in Ayrshire was regarded as his tomb. Projections back from dated individuals suggest that Coel Hen lived around AD 350–420, during the time of the Roman departure from Britain. Upon Coel Hen's death, his lands would have been split between his sons, Garmonion and Cunedda II, and later his grandsons, Dunwal Moelmut, Cunedda III, and Gwrwst Ledlwn, thus creating the many old northern kingdoms of Britain.
From "Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain" by David Williamson, ISBN 0-86350-101-X, p. 102:
"Old King Cole", the Romano-British chief Coel Hen Godebog or Caelius Votepacus held sway in Colchester in the 4th century A.D.
From "Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain" by David Williamson, ISBN 0-86350-101-X, p. 211:
Duke of Kaelcolim (Colchester); killed Asclepiodotus, the King, and usurped the throne; the "Old King Cole" of the nursery rhyme; can be equated with the historical Coel Hen Godhebog. Listed as 1st of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Who was Coel Hen?
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.
King Cole or Coel is the name of a figure, or multiple figures with similar names, prominent in British literature and legend since the Middle Ages. Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen (Coel the Old), a leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd ("the Old North"), the Brythonic-speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland.
Later medieval legend told of a Coel, apparently derived from Coel Hen, who was the father of Saint Helena and the grandfather of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Other similarly named characters may be confused or conflated with the Welsh Coel. The traditional "King Coel" may be the historical basis for the popular nursery rhyme "Old King Cole".
Coel Hen appears in the Harleian genealogies and the later pedigrees known as the Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd (The Descent of the Men of the North) at the head of several post-Roman royal families of the Hen Ogledd. His line, collectively called the Coeling, included such noted figures as Urien, king of Rheged; Gwallog, perhaps king of Elmet; the brothers Gwrgi and Peredur, and Clydno Eiddin, king of Eiddin or Edinburgh. He was also considered to be the father-in-law of Cunedda, founder of Gwynedd in North Wales, by his daughter Gwawl. The genealogies give him the epithet Godebog, meaning "Protector" or "Shelterer". The poem Y Gododdin mentions some enmity between the "Sons of Godebog" and the heroes who fought for the Gododdin at the Battle of Catraeth.
According to Welsh tradition the region of Kyle was named for Coel, and a mound at Coylton in Ayrshire was regarded as his tomb. Projections back from dated individuals suggest that Coel Hen lived around AD 350–420, during the time of the Roman departure from Britain. Upon Coel Hen's death, his lands would have been split between his sons, Garmonion and Cunedda II, and later his grandsons, Dunwal Moelmut, Cunedda III, and Gwrwst Ledlwn, thus creating the many old northern kingdoms of Britain.
From "Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain" by David Williamson, ISBN 0-86350-101-X, p. 102:
"Old King Cole", the Romano-British chief Coel Hen Godebog or Caelius Votepacus held sway in Colchester in the 4th century A.D.
From "Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain" by David Williamson, ISBN 0-86350-101-X, p. 211:
Duke of Kaelcolim (Colchester); killed Asclepiodotus, the King, and usurped the throne; the "Old King Cole" of the nursery rhyme; can be equated with the historical Coel Hen Godhebog. Listed as 1st of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Who was Coel Hen?
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.