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Henry of Huntingdon makes her the daughter of Coel, King of Colchester; the "old King Cole" of our nursery rhyme, and as mythical as other eponymous heroes. Bede calls her a concubine, a slur derived from Eutropius (A.D. 360), who calls the connection obscurius matrimonium (Brev. x. 1).

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Eumenius, 'Panegyric on Constantine,' c. 8.

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Eumenius, 'Panegyric on Constantius,' c. 6.