Coel Hen
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Coel, also called Coel Hen 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-
An illustration depicting Coel from a 15th-century Welsh-language version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
Flavia Julia Helena, also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was a Greek Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great as well as a Canoni
Coel Hen
…now northern England and southern Scotland. Later medieval legend told of a Coel, apparently derived from Coel Hen, who was said to be the father of Saint Helena of Constantinople and, through her, the grandfather of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. This is, however, likely to be erroneously identifying Saint Helen of Caernarfon…
Statue of Helena in the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Statue of Saint Helena in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy
A fresco from Trier, Germany, possibly depicting Helena, c. 310
Coin of Helena as Augusta, minted in Sirmium in AD 324.