the Magnanimous:
the Captain of Christendom: "Appointed by the Pope "Captain of Christendom" to head a crusade against the Turks, he led several victorious campaigns against them in Bulgaria with his Hungarian troops. . . ." (The Timeless Nation)
the Last of the Knight-Kings: " . . . He was called the last of the knight-kings, a truly Christian monarch, like his ideal, Saint Ladislas. He saw the danger of the Osmanli Turks’ advance in the Balkans against the declining Byzantian Empire. So he improved on his father’s somewhat hesitant foreign policy and created in the south and northeast of Hungary a protective belt of vassal states under various degrees of Hungarian supremacy. . . ." (The Timeless Nation: The History, Literature, Music, Art, and Folklore of the Hungarian Nation)
the Cunning: " . . . Klingsor, the evil magician and owner of the Castle of Wonders, was identified as Landulf II of Capua, a man of sinister reputation due to his pact with the heathen powers of Islam in Arab-occupied Sicily. . . ." (Goodrick-Clarke: 222)
the Most Elegant King (Lat. Elegantissimus Rex): "Laszlo I was a very “athletic”, strong and at the same time elegant man, who was also called elegantissimus rex. . . ." (Dallaszi Magyar Szó)
the Cuman, Kuman, Cumanian: " . . . [Stephen V] . . . was succeeded on the throne by Ladislas IV (the Cumanian), the son of the 'Cumanian Woman'. The epithet, Cumanian, was not without foundation. Even though Ladislas IV's wife was an Anjou princess, the daughter of the Neapolitan-Sicilian king, Charles I, the king was partial to his maternal relatives and to the relatives of his Cumanian mistress. . . ." (Lazar: 62)
the Lucky:
--" . . . Leif Ericsson was the first European on American soil, but at the time that wasn't the reason to name him ‘Leif the Lucky’ (‘Leifr hinn heppni’). He obtained this nickname only after rescuing some shipwrecked people on the journey back to Greenland. . . ." (Leif Ericsson @Gallery of Reconstructed Portraits)
--" . . . Leif is thus not the first discoverer of America, and his interest in it stems from Bjarni. He was, indeed, at the court of King Olaf in 1000, returned to Greenland with a priest, but did not discover any new lands on this voyage, although he earned his nickname by rescuing sailors. . . ." (Leif Ericsson @Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
born Marcellus
the Great: " . . . He was called Leo the Great (Greek: Λέων ὁ Μέγας, translit. Léōn ho Mégas), probably to distinguish him from his young grandson and co-augustus Leo II (Greek: Λέων ὁ Μικρός, translit. Léōn ho Mikrós, lit. 'Leo the Small')." (Wikipedia)
the Thracian:
the Small:
Leo II (Pope).
the Young, the Younger:
the Youngest Cardinal in History:
Leon Battista Alberti.
the Renaissance Man:
Mademoiselle Maximum: " . . . Leonide Leblanc (1842-94) acted at the Varieties Theatre as did Venard. Also known as Mademoiselle Maximum for her financial acumen, she was the long-time mistress of the Duke d'Aumale, the fourth son of Louis-Philippe. . . ." (Mossman:)
Byzantine Emperor Leo VI
the Philosopher
the Wise:
--"More than three and a half centuries had passed since Justinian had brought order to the chaotic Roman judicial system, and the law books were in desperate need or review. The passing years had piled on thousands of new legal decisions, adding volumes to a legal code that already had the disadvantage of being written in Latin. . . In just two years, the emperor managed te monumental task of translating the entire mess, systematically arranging it, and publishing the first of six condensed volumes. The unveiling of the finished work earned the emperor the nickname 'Leo the Wise' and saw him hailed as the greatest lawgiver since Justinian. . . ." (Brownworth: 172)
--"Although Leo suffered many reverses, on the whole his reign was a successful one. He sponsored the Basilica, the greatest legislative achievement since Justinian I, and other works on law, protocol, and strategy that won him the epithet of the Wise. . . ." (A History of the Byzantine State and Society: 470)
la Ricahembra, Rica Hembra (the Rich Lady): " . . . The daughter of infante Sancho of Castile, count of Alburquerque and Beatriz of Portugal, Leonor was an intelligent, beautiful, powerfully rich, prodigiously talented, ambitious heiress. Leonor was known as la rica hembra (the rich woman) for estates so vast that it was said she could walk across northern Spain, from Aragon to Galicia, and never step off her lands. Her landed wealth, combined with that of Fernando, created territories that overlapped the borders of the two realms, led to conflicts of allegiance, and were both the source of so much tension of the golpe and the site of many of the military actions. Wealth, beauty and charisma notwithstanding, much of her influence surely stemmed from the fact that she was Fernando's aunt and six years older than Fernando. Over the course of two decades, she bore him six boisterous sons (the infantes de Aragon) and daughters, and governed alongside him during his short four-year reign as king of the Crown of Aragon (1412-1416). She would remain a constant and forceful presence in Castilian and Aragonese politics until her death in 1445." (Writing Medieval Women’s Lives: 213)
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