He has long been considered a probable sixth-century king of the sub-Roman state of Elmet in the Leeds area of modern Yorkshire, though some more recent scholarship would identify him more tentatively simply as a 'king of an unidentified region in the north'.
He has been viewed by scholars for some time as a potential sixth-century ruler of the sub-Roman state of Elmet in the Leeds area of modern Yorkshire, although more recent studies are now more cautious in their assessment and might instead characterize him as possibly the leader of an unspecified region in northern England.