Eudes of Roucy (d.1021)
the Strong [97]
Eudes II of Blois (983-1037)
Count of Blois, 1004
Count of Troyes, 1022
Eudes I of Troyes
daughter of Valentinian III
the Young, the Younger.
Prince Eugene, the Noble Knight (Ger. Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter)
the Noble Chevalier:
the Little Abbe of Savoy:
the Little Capuchin: (It. Capuzineri): " . . . His receptions with the army were always enthusiastic. The soldiers called him their friend and their father, and as every great general nearly has had a sobriquet, so Eugene was the Capuzineri, 'the little Capuchin,' from a common brown great coat with brass buttons which he was accustomed to wear, and up to the present time he is the favourite of the soldier's song in every state of Germany as Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter---'Prince Eugene, 'the noble Knight.' Indeed, universally it was nobility, true nobility of soul which impressed every one who had to do with Prince Eugene as his great characteristic. . . ." (Edinburgh Review, Vol 116: 544)
the Bayard of His Age: ". . . Eugene was most cordially received by the king, Louis XVIII., who embraced him, and declared that as soon as peace was announced he would make him a marshal of France, as he considered him a brilliant example to the army, and that he ought to be surnamed the Bayard of His age. . . ." (History of the German Emperors and Their Contemporaries: 469)
the Cherubim: " . . . [I]n the Italian campaign of 1796-7 he became Napoleon's junior ADC. He also accompanied his new stepfather to Egypt where he gained the nickname 'cherubim' for his boyish looks. . . . " (Napoleon's Elite: 37)
Eugenie de Montijo, Empress of the French.
Carrots:
the Queen of Biarritz:
a l'Oeil
aux Grenons
aus Longues Moustaches
Gernobadatus [101]
the Old [102]
the Surety, the Magna Carta Baron [103]
Lord of Rœulx
le Valet [104]
Lord of Rœulx
Canivet [105]
Lord of Rœulx
Campulus [106]
Lord of Roeulx
Canivet [107]
the Father of the Poor [108]
Red Eva, Roe Eva
the French Tibullus [109]
Star
the Black
"Eystein Olafsson, the Fart, King of Vestfold, Possibly an ancestor of Harold Finehair. The nickname refers to his wanderings rather than his indigestion. We know him through Snorri Sturlusson using an ancient verse compilation. Eystein was knocked overboard by a passing ship's boom and drowned. He is said to be buried at Borre." (Bradbury, p. 35)
the Clatterer
the Noisy
Jarl of the Opplands
the Severe
il Balbo:
Ezzelino II da Romano (d.1180)
il Monarco
the Stammerer.
the Monk: " . . . When he entered a monastery in 1223 (thus acquiring the epithet of il Monaco, 'the Monk'), he left his possessions to his two sons. . . . (Grund: 299)
the Cruel:
--"So, to the unspeakable relief of all Italy, perished Ezzelino, il Crudele, or the Cruel, who, endowed with great military genius, might have been a hero, and chose to be the scourge of his country, and the detestation of posterity. His shrewdness was equal to his cruelty; for at a glance he read the deepest secrets of the heart, and was known to scrutinize and study every face upon which he turned his gaze. He was of athletic mould, and gifted with nerves like whip-thongs and sinews of iron. His hair and eyebrows were dark and bushy, his features pale but marked with extraordinary expression, and his eyes like those of a viper. . . ." (The American Review, Vol. 8: 63)
--"Ezzelino was legendary for his cruelty and became a symbol of the ferocious tyrant, especially to his Guelf enemies. The Guelfs' propaganda painted him as inhuman: Giovanni Villani, for example, wrote that he 'was the most cruel and feared tyrant that ever existed among Christians.' Salimbene of Parma wrote that Ezzelino 'was truly of the body of the devil and a son of iniquity. . . He was the worst man in the world.' Whilst most scholars now believe that the Guelfs' portrayal was exaggerate, they do not doubt Ezzelino's willingness to resort to force, intimidation, and cruelty in order to achieve his ends. Ezzelino, however, was very much a man of his time, ably using the factions of Italian politics and the communal system of government in northern Italy in his determined pursuit of power." (Kleinheinz, Vol. 1; 325)
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