Royal and Noble Nicknames: Eliziv -- Esther

the Fair Maid of Normandy: "Emma, or Œlfgifa, fair Maid of Normandy, was, it will be remembered, wife first of King Aethelred the Unready, and afterwards of Canute the Great. She was the mother, therefore, not only of Harthacnut, but also of Edward the Confessor. . . ." (Reed)

the Flower of Normandy: "Ethelred now strove to strengthen himself by a powerful alliance, and to that end married Emma, the sister of Duke Richard the Good, of Normandy, called for her beauty the Flower of Normandy. . . ." (Wall: 23)

the Gem of Normandy, the Gem of the Normans: " . . . It was in afterlife that queen Emma received the name of the 'gem of the Normans,' for which the Saxons substituted 'Elfgifu' (the gift of the fairies). . . ." (William of Malmesbury: 92)

Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont

the Queen Mother:

Emma Hamilton.

the Patroness of the Navy.

Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases

the Wise:

Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy

the Last Marshal of the Empire:

Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, 1671–1704

the Posthumous:

Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy

the Iron Head:

Emund of Sweden

Slemme, the Old

Engelbert, Archbishop of Cologne

the Father of Our Country:
the Ornament of Germany: "...In 1225, Cologne was overtaken by a sad disaster. Engelbert, 'the father of our country, the ornament of Germany,' was murdered on a journey by his own kinsman, the Count of Isenberg. The deed had been connived at by many nobles, whose turbulence the good Regent had kept within bounds...." (Kingston-Oliphant, 1862, p. 253)

Enguerrand I of Ponthieu

Isambard:

Enguerrand III of Coucy, Lord of Coucy (1182-1242)

the Great:

the Builder:

the Greatest Baron in All Picardy:

"It is with the elder, Enguerrand III called 'the Big' or 'the Great' (in French 'le grand'), that one allots the current castle. Untiring warrior, he distinguishes himself in the battle of Bouvines and during expeditions against Cathares (heretics). In 1216 he lands in England with the french prince Louis, who tried to keep the crown after the death of the king John. From 1226 he takes part in the conspiracy of the higher ranking French lords against the regency of the Queen Blanche of Castille (a Spanish woman!), mother of the young Saint-Louis. The legend claims that he wanted to take the crown and his disappointed hope would be the origin of the famous motto: 'King am not, nor prince, nor duke, nor count either; I am the lord of Coucy.'"

"...[He] built the biggest tower (built between 1225 and 1230) in Christendom for his castle of Coucy : 177 feet high, 105 feet wide, 25 feet thick at his base." "...[Coucy's...gigantic donjon tower...rises to a height still of at least 180 feet. It is 150 feet in circumference at the base, and slopes very gradually to the summit. The hall on the ground floor measures more than forty feet in diameter, the walls being of enormous thickness. Over one of the doorways is a defaced bas-relief representing a lion attacked and slain by Enguerrand I. de Coucy... The donjon consists of three storeys above the ground floor... The vast forests over which Enguerrand, the builder, gazed seeking out the sites of which he planted so many strongholds---(it is known that besides Coucy he erected at least eight other castles from Folembray to Saint-Lambert)---have been replaced in great part by fertile fields and smiling towns...." (Hurlbert, p. 292)

"...Enguerrand (III) the Great, sieur de Couci was one of the leading nobles in northern France...In his own right, Enguerrand was the greatest baron of Picardy, the heir of a line whose power and prestige stretched back to the elevent century, and the builder of a fortress at couci, the size and sophistication of which made it the envy of many princes and the model for a number of Scottish castles...." (Brown, p. 141)

Enguerrand of Saint Pol

Candavene:

Enrico I del Caretto, Marchese di Finale (d.1185)

the Cross-eyed (It. il Guercio): "Henry called the Cross-eyed, second son of Boniface Marquis of Savona, was the ancestor of the family of Del Carretto." (The College of Arms)

Enrique II de Castilla.

Henry of Trastamara:

He of the Gifts, He of the Favours (Sp. El de las Mercedes, Ger. das Mercês):

--"The generosity Enrique II displayed to the noblemen that helped him acquire the throne explains why he received the nickname 'el de las mercedes' (he of the favors, or mercies)... Enrique's donations to his supporters consisted largely in seigneurial territories whose beneficiaries received revenues and possessed jurisdictional rights. Enrique II gave territories to captains of foreign troops such as Du Guesclin, who received but never occupied Soria and Molina. The king's brothers, Sancho and Tello, were also beneficiaries of royal mercedes, as was his illegitimate son Alfonso Enriquez. But the majority of the donations were made to nobles, both from time-honored, traditionally powerful lineages (the Guzman family, for example) and from social-climbing, newly powerful groups (like the Mendoza and Velasco families). . . ." (Gerli & Armistead, p. 304)

--" . . . The king's concessions of privileges, rents, and lordships, whereby he gained the nickname Enrique de las mercedes, had much to do with the creation of a powerful nobility whose arrogance and lawlessness also contributed to the turmoil of the times and eventually became a serious threat to the monarchy itself." (O'Callaghan, p. 525)

the Bastard

the Beneficent Donor (Dut. de Weldadige Schenker):

the Fratricide

the Great

the Knight

the Noble

the Old: " . . . Enrique II of Castile was sometimes known as "King Enrique the Old", by contrast with his grandson Enrique III, even though he had died at no great age. . . ." (Round, p. 184).

Enrique III of Castile.

the Infirm

the Sickly

the Sufferer.

Enrique IV of Castile.

the Generous, Liberal:

the Impotent:

the Magnanimous: ". . . His nicknames suggest the subsequent disillusionment of his subjects. At the dawn of his reign when he bestowed lavish favors upon his subjects, the king was called Enrique El Generoso, 'the generous' or 'the liberal.' Later, however, when his reign became turbulent and his leadership faltered, he was dubbed Enrique El Impotente, 'the ineffective' or 'impotent.'" (Isabella of Castile: the First Renaissance Queen: 23)

Enrique Puigmolto y Mayans.

el Pollo Real:

el Puigmoltejo:

Eochaid I of Ireland

the Heremon:

Eochaid IV of Dalriada

the Poisonous:

Eochaid, King of Tara, c.360

the Slaves-Lord:

Eochaid Binnigh

son of Eogan the Lion, King of Tyrone

the Tuneful: