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  2. Coel Hen - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Coilus - Wikipedia

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    Coilus was a legendary king of the Britons during the time of the Roman occupation of Britain as recounted in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae. He came to power in 142AD. [1] He was the son of King Marius and ruled following his father's death.

  4. Old King Cole - Wikipedia

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    Further speculation connects Old King Cole and thus Coel Hen to Colchester, but in fact Colchester was not named after Coel Hen. [7] Connecting with the musical theme of the nursery rhyme, according to a much later source, Coel Hen supposedly had a daughter who was skilled in music, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, writing in the 12th century ...

  5. Lucius of Britain - Wikipedia

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    Lucius (Welsh: Lles map Coel, Lleirwg, Lleufer or Lleufer Mawr) was a supposed 2nd-century king of the Britons traditionally credited with introducing Christianity into Britain. Lucius is first mentioned in a 6th-century version of the Liber Pontificalis , which says that he sent a letter to Pope Eleutherius asking to be made a Christian.

  6. House of Rheged - Wikipedia

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    It is possible that either Gorwst Letlwm [3] or Ceneu [4] ruled in Rheged. However, it is more likely that Meirchion Gul was the first king of the area specifically. [5] The Kingdom was almost certainly passed to Cynfarch Oer, [6] however, the throne may have originally passed to his brother Elidyr Lydanwyn, [7] as is claimed the Gwynedd version of Hywel Dda's 'Welsh laws'.

  7. Porrex II - Wikipedia

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    Porrex II was a legendary king of the Britons as recounted in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. He came to power in 257 BC. [1] He was the son of Coel and the grandson of Catellus; he was succeeded by his son, Cherin. [2] [3] In some versions of the story, his father was King Millus.

  8. The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla held in May last year cost British taxpayers £72 million ($91 million), an amount some have labeled excessive.. The Department for Culture ...

  9. List of legendary kings of Britain - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Cadwaladr Fendigaid from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Cadwaladr was also a historical king. The following list of legendary kings of Britain (Welsh: Brenin y Brythoniaid, Brenin Prydain) derives predominantly from Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa 1136 work Historia Regum Britanniae ("the History of the Kings of Britain").