List of monarchs by nickname

This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts:

  • Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples are "William the Conqueror" for William I of England, and "Frederick Barbarossa" for Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • Sobriquets: Names which have become identified with a particular person, and are recognizable when used instead of the personal name. Some are used only in a particular context: for example, "Grandmother of Europe" for Queen Victoria is generally only used when referring to her family links throughout the royal families of Europe. On the other hand, in some cases the nickname supersedes the personal name, and the individual is referred to by this nickname even in scholarly works: for example, Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus is universally known by his nickname, Caligula.

Notes:

  • Nicknames are listed in each section alphabetically, ignoring articles and prepositions.
  • Non-English words are rendered in italics, and translated where possible.
  • When the name and nickname are rendered in a non-English language, the nickname will be in boldface italics.


Cognomen

A swung dash, or tilde (~) is used to indicate where the personal name occurs in the nickname; thus "~ the Accursed" means "Sviatopolk the Accursed".

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U
  • "~ the Unavoidable": Louis XVIII of France[7]
  • "~ the Unique": Frederick II of Prussia
  • "~ the Unlucky":
    • Arnulf III of Flanders
    • Henry III of Reuss
  • "~ the Unready": Ethelred II of England
  • "~ the Usurper": Mauregato of Asturias

V

W

Y

Sobriquets

See also

References
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Notes
  1. Zhukovsky, A. "Sviatopolk I". www.encyclopediaofukraine.com. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  2. Ian Wood (31 October 2002). "Deconstructing the Merovingian Family". In Corradini, Richard; Diesenberger, Maximilian; Reimitz, Helmut (eds.). The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages. BRILL. p. 161. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. Artinian, Artine (April 1939). "A Reference Chronology of French History". The Modern Language Journal. 23 (7): 524. doi:10.2307/317108. JSTOR 317108.
  4. Trench, Richard Chenevix (1865). Gustavus Adolphus: Social Aspects of the Thirty Years' War. Two Lectures. Macmillan. p. 29. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  5. N. Beckman, "Anund Jakob", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
  6. Andrusiak, Mykola; Mykytiak, A (Jun 1995). "Kings of Kiev and Galicia (On the Occasion of the 700th Anniversary of the Coronation of Danilo Romanovich)". The Slavonic and East European Review. 33 (81): 344. JSTOR 4204660.
  7. Strategypage
  8. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/07/world/jordan-king-and-queen-5-things/index.html
  9. http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-02-06/world-news/King-Abdullah-the-Warrior-King-goes-viral-as-footage-of-his-military-skills-do-the-rounds-6736130214
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