la Barucci
the Greatest Whore in the World (by herself)
Giulia Campana.
Giulia Ferrarese
the Most Famous Beauty of Her Day.
Giulia Ferrarese
the Most Famous Beauty of Her Day.
Giulia la Bella
la Bella Giulia
Christ's Bride
Julia the Beautiful
the Pope's Whore.
the New Helen (It. la Nuova Elena): "The publicity about Giulia generated by so many courtiers soon caused her to be known throughout Italy as 'la nuova Elena' (the new Helen from Homer's Greek mythology) and her court in Fondi to be called 'la piccola Atene' (small Athens)." (Justified by Faith)
Duke of Florence
la Chanteuse de l'Empereur: "The Duke saw a great deal . . . on far more occasions . . . Giuseppina Grassini, the opera singer from La Scala who had followed Napoleon's soldiers out of Italy and, as 'La Chanteuse de 'Empereur' had become one of the Emperor's mistresses. It was widely supposed in Paris that she became Wellington's mistress, to. Certainly he kept a portrait of her in his room, but then he kept pictures of Pauline Borghese and Pope Pius VII there as well. He was so often to be seen in Giuseppina Grassini's company that Lady Lady Bessborough, who was staying in Paris that autumn, complained not so much of the immorality of the liaison as of the 'want of precede and the publicity of his attentions'." (Wellington: A Personal History:162)
la Grassini:
Gleb I of Kiev (1010–1015)
the Saint
Glun, King of Dublin, 981–?
the Iron Knee
the Black [92]
the Englishman: ". . . Gorm . . . was given the nickname of 'Englishman' because of his birth in England, took over the royal command after his father's decease, while he was on that island. . . ." (Saxo Grammaticus and Davidson: 294)
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski
Alcibiades: "Potemkin soon became known to the raciest daredevils among the Guards. At twenty-two, he was tall -- well over six foot -- broad and highly attractive to women. Potemkin 'had the advantage of having the finest head of hair in all Russia'. His looks and talents were so striking that he was nicknamed 'Alcibiades', a superlative compliment in a neo-Classical age. . . Plutarch raved about the 'brilliance' of Alcibiades' 'physical beauty'. . . ." Montefiore: 30)
Hrytsko Nechesa (by Cossacks)the Cyclops: " . . . Tall, muscular but hardly handsome, sometimes witty, sometimes morose, Prince Potemkin once studied theology but chose the army instead. He thus played a minor role in the 1762 coup by which Catherine and Guards Officer Grigori Orlov overthrew Catherine's weakling husband Peter III. Orlov introduced young Potemkin into court circles, where he at once amused Catherine by imitating her German accent. Orlov soon became jealous, so he and his brother Aleksei picked a quarrel with Potemkin and severely beat him. This is one explanation, though unconfirmed, of how Potemkin lost an eye (hence his nickname, "Cyclops")." (Russia: Au Revour Potemkin?)
the Cossack
the Lion of the Junglethe Cossack
the Hunter, the Huntsman (Sp. el Cazador; Tur. Avci): " . . . The third in descent from him (that is, Halfdan Whiteleg) was the great viking Godfrey the Hunter, who waged war against Charlemagne, and Godfrey's son was Halfdan the Swarthy." (Boyesen: 46)
the Great:
--"Ferdinand the Catholic most willingly accepted the invitation, and undertook the expedition, so that he immediately sent a sufficient army into Sicily, under the command of Gonsalvo Fernandes, of the Family of Aguilar, a man of great courage and long experience in the wars of Granada, who upon his first coming to Italy, being by the vain-glorious Spaniards surnamed the Great-Captain, by that title denoting his great authority on account of the notable victories he afterwards gained, with universal consent that surname was confirmed and perpetuated to him, as a mark of his great courage, and of his excellency in military discipline. Gonsalvo being arrived at Messina with his troops, was received with extreme joy by Alphonsus and Ferdinand, and having exhorted them to raise their spirits, he landed his men in Calabria, where he obtained signal advantages over the French...." (Giannone: 446)
--" . . . In fact, when in his presence, all the Generals appeared his inferiors; and by his exalted spirit, the prudence of his councils, and his daring valour in action, he seemed destined to command wherever he presented himself. Then it was stated that both Italians, and French, first publicly awarded him the epithet of the Great Captain, by which title he was ever after distinguished." (Quintana & Russell: 40)
Gosifrid de Bec
the Marshal
the Blind
Gostomysl of Novgorod
(8??–859)
the Reasonable
the Great
Ignavus (Retarded)
the Sluggard
He " . . . gained the nickname 'Gotz mit der eisernen hand' (Gotz with the iron hand) because of a steel replacement for his right hand lost in the Siege of Landshut (1505). From 1497 he was involved in continual feuds, in which he displayed both lawless daring and chivalrous magnanimity. Twice he was placed under the ban of the empire. . . ." (Houghton Miflin Co.: 628)
the Fair Elliotina (by Matrimonial Magazine):
Bald Grace: "Grace O'Malley (also called Granuaile) was a famous pirate, seafarer, trader and chieftain in Ireland in the 1500's. She was born in 1530 in County Mayo, Ireland and was the daughter of sea captain Owen O'Malley. As a young child, Grace always knew she wanted to be a sailor but as a female, she was discouraged repeatedly. Extremely upset when her father refused to take her on a sailing trip, legend has it Grace cut off all her hair and dressed in boys clothes to prove to her parents that she could handle the trip and live a seafarer's life. Seeing this, her father and brother laughed aloud and nicknamed her "Grainne Mhaol" meaning "Bald Grace" (which is believed to have led to her nickname "Granuaile."). Eventually, through her persistence, she was allowed to go to sea with her father and his fleet of ships." (Celtic Castles)
Grania of the Cropped Hair (Grania Mhoal): "Born in 1530, Grania was the daughter of Owen 'Black Oak' O'Malley, a chieftain of Country Mayo... Of course, girls weren't supposed to go to sea like the menfolk, but young Grania wasn't content to stay home in the drafty family castle and learn women's work. She cut off her hair and dressed in boys' clothing, hoping her father might relent and take her along on his voyages if she looked like a boy. This earned her the nickname Grania Mhoal, or Grania of the Cropped Hair, a name that stuck with her for life." (Robbins: 108)
the Nurse of All Rebellions: "We do not know when or where Grania was born, but as her father was at one time chief of his nation, it was most likely at Belclare, which was one of the chief castles of the family, and she was probably baptized at Murrisk. As Bingham describes Grania in 1593 as the "nurse of all rebellions in Connaught for the last forty years," she must have been born about the year 1530, before Henry VIII. had yet changed his religion." (Healy) [Bio1:108-114]
Gregory I (Pope).
God's Consul: "The great Pope died in 604 with Italy at peace, the conversion of Spain accomplished, and that of England under way. He deserves to be called Gregory the Great, but the title which suits the noble old Roman best was that given to him in an early epitaph--God's Consul." (Brusher)
Gruffudd.
the Head and Shield and Defender of the Britons: " . . . In 1063 Gruffudd was slain ‘through the treachery of his own men,’ according to ‘ Brut y Tywysogion ,’ after he had been ‘the head and shield and defender of the Britons.’ . . . ." (Welsh Biography Online)
Gruffydd (1110–?)
the Tall.
the Most Noble King of the Britons: " . . . According to the Welsh 'Gruffydd ap Llewelyn, the head and shield and defender of the (Britons) fell through the treachery of his own men. The man who (had) been invincible, who had taken immense spoils, countless gold and silver, jewels and purple vestments, was left in the desolation' The 'most noble king of the Britons' was dead. . . ." (Barlow: 212)
Lady Macbeth
son of Harald I of Norway
Ljome
Skiria
Guerao III, Viscount of Girona, 1145–1161
the Minstrel
the Troubadour.
William I of Sicily:
the Good: "If one leaves aside the resumption of costly overseas expeditions . . . , the attempt of assuming power at Constantinople in 1185 via a pretender . . . , then the kingdom internally enjoyed political stability for most of William II's reign. This earned him a reputation for peace and piety as well as the later, enduring epithet of 'the good'. . . The epithet of 'the good' also derives from the conspicuous munificence of his charity shown towards the Latin Church, and refers to another expensive and disastrous project -- the foundation of the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria Nuova . . . , the smaller Cuba palace and Cubula pavilion located in a royal part. . . Thus, for both local Muslims and outside visitors, William II was, at beast, an ambivalent figure. At worst, he was the Muslims' betrayer since he was to dissolve the arrangement of royal protection for the Muslims of western Sicily -- of the few regions where they could still live unmolested." (Metcalfe: 209)
Great Marquis (It. il Gran Marchese): "William VII of Montferrat early developed abilities which entitled him to the appellation of 'The Great Marquis,' In 1257 he had married Isabel, daughter of Richard, Earl of Gloucester, who had brought him a dowry of four thousand marks in silver. He now extended his dominions in Canavese; and several of the cities adjoining his dominions, such as Acqui, Nizza della Paglia, and even Alessandria, put themselves under his protection." (Gallenga: 89)
the Pagan:
the Tench
Palatine Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
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