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| Edward I of England Longshanks @Wikipedia |
"Edward I is certainly the greatest of the Plantagenet kings of England and one of the most important of all the English kings. The sobriquets applied to him give some indications of his abilities: 'the Lawgiver', 'the Hammer of the Scots', the Father of the Mother of Parliaments', 'the English Justinian', let alone his personal nickname of Longshanks, which was not derogatory. Edward was a tall man, healthy, strong and immensely powerful, a born soldier." (Ashley. A Brief History of British Kings & Queens)
Longshanks
"He was 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall hence the nickname 'Longshanks' meaning Long legs. Aka the 'Hammer of the Scots' (this is on his tomb) & 'Scotland's Scourge' for his battles against the Scots. Known as the 'English Justinian' & 'the Father of the Mother of Parliaments' for his reforms.Also 'the Father of the Longbow' & 'the Warrior King' for his battle exploits." (Factacular)
Scotland's Scourge:
the Father of the Longbow:
the Father of the Mother of Parliaments:
the Hammer of the Scots:
the Justinian of England, the English Justinian:
the Leopard:
the Leopard of England:
the Warrior King:
Edward II of England.
Edward of Carnarvon: "Edward II was born at Caernarfon Castle. He was the first English prince to hold the title Prince of Wales. King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. He was the seventh Plantagenet king.
the Avenger of Merchants: "Edward III styled himself "the Avenger of Merchants" on the gold coin struck to commemorate the defeat of the Spaniards at sea."
the Bankrupt: "In 1340 Edward III caused two famous bankruptcies when he defaulted on personal loans."
the King of the Sea: "During the first part of his reign he paid much attention to naval administration; he successfully asserted the maritime supremacy of the country, and was entitled by parliament the 'king of the sea'."
the Warrior of God: " . . . When we describe Edward III as a 'warrior of God' we do so because he was a war leader who was normally religious, and regularly used religious symbols (such as relics, offerings of devotion and pilgrimages) to inspire his army. . . ." (Mortimer: 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory: 534)
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| Edward IV of England @Wikipedia |
Edward of Rouen: "He was born at Rouen in France. Edward holds the tragic accolade of being one of the few male members of his dynasty to die of natural causes, most others were killed in battle."
Edward Plantagenet of York
Edward Plantagenet of Rouen
Edward the Robber (by the Scotch)
Edward the Tanner of Tamworth.
Edward Plantagenet of Rouen
Edward the Robber (by the Scotch)
Edward the Tanner of Tamworth.
Edward of Sanctuary: "Edward was born in sanctuary within Westminster Abbey during a period when his mother, Elizabeth Woodville, was taking refuge from Lancastrians who had temporarily removed his father, King Edward IV of England, from power in the Wars of the Roses."
Edward VI of England.
the Boy King:"Became King of England and Ireland in 1547 at the age of nine."
Dirty Bertie
Edward the Caresser
Europe's Peace Maker (by Poincare)
Flirty Bertie
Good Old Teddy: "Edward VII died at Sandringham, Norfolk, on 6 May 1910, following a series of heart attacks. There was a widespread and genuine sense of loss at the death of 'Good old Teddy'." (Renaissance London)
Edward the Caresser
Europe's Peace Maker (by Poincare)
Flirty Bertie
Good Old Teddy: "Edward VII died at Sandringham, Norfolk, on 6 May 1910, following a series of heart attacks. There was a widespread and genuine sense of loss at the death of 'Good old Teddy'." (Renaissance London)
the Caresser:
the Cosmopolitan King
the Dandy Prince
the Peacemaker; (by British media)
the Peacemaker of Europe
the Uncle of Europe (l'Oncle de l'Europe)
Tum Tum (by Jeanette Jerome).
the Cosmopolitan King
the Dandy Prince
the Peacemaker; (by British media)
the Peacemaker of Europe
the Uncle of Europe (l'Oncle de l'Europe)
Tum Tum (by Jeanette Jerome).
| Edward VIII of Great Britain |
David (by family)
the Flogging Duke:
Our Smiling Prince
the Darling of the Dominions
the Digger Prince (by workers)
the First Royal Sex Symbol of the Modern Age
the Little Man (by Lady Furness)
the Darling of the Dominions
the Digger Prince (by workers)
the First Royal Sex Symbol of the Modern Age
the Little Man (by Lady Furness)
the Confessor: "At the time of Edward's canonisation, Saints were categorised as either martyrs (killed for their faith) or confessors (died natural deaths). Edward was accordingly styled Edward the Confessor, partly to distinguish him from his canonised predecessor Edward the Martyr."
the Lavish of Riches:
Edward of the Anglo-Saxons:
Edward of Woodstock:
d'Outremer:
the Fugitive:
Edward of Woodstock:
Edward of Great Britain, Duke of Kent.
Prince Edward Augustus of Great Britain
Joseph Surface (by his mother & sisters)
the Beast: . "The Duke was sent to Gibraltar as Colonel of the Royal Fusiliers. It was there that he first earned his nickname, 'the Beast,' and his reputation as the most hated man in the British army. From 5 A. M. every day he thrashed, marched and drilled his men into the ground. The slightest mistake by any of his soldiers would turn the Duke into a seething psychopath. Naturally, the floggings multiplied. When news filtered back to England that the Gibraltar garrison was at the point of mutiny, the darkly disturbed Duke was quietly removed and sent to Canada. Unfortunately he had learned nothing from his mistakes at Gibraltar and viewed his new posting as a fresh opportunity to inflict even more unnecessary cruelty. Once again he drove his troops to the very brink of mutiny with his regime of outrageous punishments. . . ." (Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty: 224)
the Corporal (by Duke of Wellington)
Smartarse: " . . . When Edward joined the Royal Marines he was supposed to be there for 9 years, after a grueling 3 weeks training period. No special privileges were given. They pushed Edward, as other recruits. But the others teased and taunted him, the same as they would anyone wanting to join that elite fighting corps. Edward, though, was made of different stuff than these Marines. He found them a little crude and less than amusing when they treated him to jokes and humiliations at his expense. His nickname of 'Smartarse' was not one to endear him to them. He decided enough was enough and quit the Marines before they quit him. . . . " (Bayliss. Secret Royal History: 202)
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| Edward, Prince of Wales the Black Prince @Wikipedia |
Edward of Woodstock:
the Black Prince:
Edoardo, Conte Tiretta di Treviso.
Count Six Times (Fr. le Compte Six Fois):
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| Edward Courtenay Earl of Devon the Flower of English Nobility @Wikipedia |
the Flower of English Nobility (by Reginald Pole)
"Edward must have been optimistic about his future. He had the gracious accomplishments of a courtier and an excellent education. He knew the classics and could play several instruments. He had a regal bearing and refined features. He was praised for his comportment, his civility, and his intellectual accomplishments and for his interest in music. Reginald Pole found him to be the “flower of English nobility” and he was very popular with the Londoners. The Imperial ambassador Simon Renard called him “the last sprig of the white rose”. Edward bore the sword of state at Queen Mary’s coronation." (The Freelance History Writer)
the Last Sprig of the White Rose (Simon Renard, Imperial ambassador):
Edward Somerset, Marius of Somerset (1601-1667)
Bezaliel:
Ephues:
Master Apis Lapis (the Sacred Stone Oxen): "Thomas Nashe, in his 1592 dedicatory preface to Strange News, refers to the Earl of Oxford as 'Master Apis Lapis' (the 'sacred stone oxen') and 'Gentler Master William', argued Barrell.' "The name of the aristocratic ideal pictured in three famous novels by John Lyly, Oxford's secretary, written 1579-81. Later applied by Gabriel Harvey and others to Oxford himself. . . ." (The Many Nicknames of the Earl of Oxford)
Ned Kynaston:
the Loveliest Lady that I Ever Saw in My Life (by Samuel Nicolas):
the Great:
Egbert of Brunswick
Egon=Egino IV (I) of Urach (d.1230)
the Bearded:
May-pole
a chieftain in North Norway
Paunch-Shaker
Einar Ragnvaldson, Earl of Orkney (d.910)
Turf-Einar
Krzywousty
the Wry-mouth
the Impetuous
the Englishman
the Sorceress.
Odalisque: "The palace gossips had a name for Princess Ekaterina Dolgorukaya---Odalisque---and everyone knew who it meant."
Ekbert, Count in Amber and Derlinggau (935–994)
the One-Eyed
Ekbert II of Merseburg (d.819)
the Loyal
"The German people retained the idea that the king of the Germans must be German, not Italian; that the welfare of Germany was his chief task and occupation; that they must elect among the Germans the man whom his previous career proved most fit for the great task of protecting and ruling the empire internally and externally---that is, the man most worthy to rule. He was---there could be no doubt on this point---Eckhard, Margrave of Meissen. As general of the empire, he had conducted Otto's wars, and stood in such high esteem that Bishop Ditmar (Thietmar) of Merseburg called him, 'an ornament of the nation, the protection of the country, the hope of his friends, the terror of his enemies.' He had such a good prospect of being elected king by the majority, that the opposite party had recourse to assassination. He was murdered on the 30th of April, 1002. Both male and female members of the Ottonian family were abettors of his murder." (Zimmermann: 828)
Eleanor of the Golden Boots
A Second Penthesilea: "Even women travelled in their ranks, boldly sitting astride their saddles as men do, dressed in male clothes and, with their lances and armour, looking just like men. With their warlike looks, they behaved in an even more masculine way than the Amazons. Among there there was even a second Panthesilea: a woman who, because of the gold embroidery on the hem of her dress, was nicknamed Chrysopus (Golden Foot)."(Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend :149)
the Eagle of Broken Pledge: "It is no wonder if those familiar with such accounts of noble, female warriors should find an analogy with the band of ladies who rode off to the crusade. Towards the end of the century the Greek chronicler Nicetas Choniates surely had Eleanor herself in mind when he described the arrival of the crusaders at Constantinople".
the Eagle with Two Heads: "When Henry II imprisoned Eleanor for her role in the Great Rebellion of 1173, many of her fellow Aquitanians were deeply disturbed. Richard le Poitevin, a troubadour from Poitou who had probably known the queen since her youth, expresses his outrage below. Notice that he refers to Eleanor as the 'Eagle with two heads' because she ruled over England, as well as he domain in France. The royal sons are the 'eaglets,' and he calls Henry the 'king of the North Wind.'" (Eleanor of Aquitaine and the High Middle Ages : 71)
the Golden Foot (Gr. Chrysopus):
--" . . . But she was separated from the French king because of blood relationship and removed by the English king through confinement in prison, which continued for sixteen years. Thus on both sides she was called 'Eagle of broken pledge.'. . . ." (Eleanor of Aquitaine and the High Middle Ages: 84)
--"Even women travelled in their ranks, boldly sitting astride their saddles as men do, dressed in male clothes and, with their lances and armour, looking just like men. With their warlike looks, they behaved in an even more masculine way than the Amazons. Among there there was even a second Panthesilea: a woman who, because of the gold embroidery on the hem of her dress, was nicknamed Chrysopus (Golden Foot)." (Owen & Owen: 149)
Eleanor of Brittany (1182-1241)
Aliénor de Bretagne:
Éléonore de Bretagne:
la Belle Bretonne: "Her eldest daughter, Elinor, the legitimate heiress of England, Normandy, and Bretagne, died in captivity, having been kept a prisoner in Bristol Castle from the age of fifteen. She was at that time so beautiful, that she was called proverbially, 'La Belle Bretonne," and by the English the 'Fair Maid of Brittany.' She, like her brother Arthur, was sacrificed to the ambition of their uncles." (Mrs. Jameson. Heroines: With Twenty-six Portraits of Famous Players in Character: 267)
--the Faithful who, according to one account, accompanied and sustained her husband, Edward I of England, on his Crusade. When he was wounded by an assassin's poisoned dagger, it was said that she sucked the poison from the wound. Eleanor traveled with Edward I on his dangerous forays into Wales. She bore him 15 children during their 36-year marriage.
--" . . . Eleonora of Castile, surnamed the Faithful, was the only child of Ferdinand of Castile and Joanna of Ponthieu... She accompanied Edward on his crusade to the Holy Land, then to Wales; and after that country was conquered, on her way to join her husband, who had marched against Scotland, she fell ill and died, at the age of forty-seven. All the affairs of Scotland were obliterated from the mind of the great Edward by the acute sorrow he felt at the death of Eleonora. For thirteen days he journeyed with her corpse, and at every stage where the royal bier rested he vowed to erect across to the memory of his chert reine, as he passionately called her (Charing Cross, a corruption of chert reine, has lately been restored in London). Walsingham says of her, 'To our nation she was a loving mother,—the column and pillar of the whole realm. She was a godly, modest, and merciful princess. The English nation in her time was not harassed by foreigners, nor the country-people by purveyors of the crown.'. . . ." (Peake: 143)
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| Eleanor Talbot |
Lady Eleanor Talbot
Lady Eleanor Butler
the Beautiful Eleanor
la Fecunda (the fertile one)
la Fecundissima (the most fertile one)
the Frenchwoman, as she was derogatorily known in Hanoverian court circles.
the Fair Lory: "In later years, Eugene had a most confidential and intimate friend of the other sex. The Viennese simply called her 'the fair Lory.' This lady was Eleanor, the rich heiress of Count Strattman, the all-powerful Aulic chancellor of the Emperor Leopold. She had become in 1692 the wife of the gallant Hungarian, Count Adam Batthyany, Ban of Croatia; but she lost her husband in 1703, just at the time when Eugene, having been appointed president of the Aulic Council of War, resided frequently at Vienna. For a quarter of a century, Eugene regularly passed his evenings at the house of the Duchess of Holstein, where he met the Countess Batthyany for a game at cards; or also at the countess' own house. . . ." (Memoirs of the Court, Aristocracy, and Diplomacy of Austria, Vol. II: 134)
the First Woman Ever to be Awarded a University Degree:
Elim O'Shaughnessy.
the Turtle: " . . . A second-generation diplomat, Elim, also known as 'The Turtle,' acted the part of the striped-pants man better than almost anyone, with affected accent, 'protruding fish eyes,' long cigarette holder, elegantly tailored suits, and lank hair. He did it so well, in fact, that he failed in his foreign service oral exam several times until he was told the reason: He did not present a sufficiently American appearance. So he moved to St. Louis and got a job as a gas station attendant. The result was mixed: O'Shaughnessy was admitted to the foreign service but had not changed much. . . . " (The Atlantic Century: Four Generations of Extraordinary Diplomats who Forged America's Vital Alliance with Europe:130)
the Saint [30]
the Semiramis of Lucca (Fr. la Semiramide di Lucca)
Ella Filitti.
the Bird.
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