the Magnificent:
Pierfrancesco II de' Medici:
the Younger:
Pierre of Burgundy, Lord of Chateauberlin (d.1274)
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Lord of Florence.
the Gouty (It. il Gotoso): " . . . Piero was plagued throughout his life with disfiguring illnesses, including gout (from which his nickname is derived), eczema, and arthritis. Despite his painful physical existence, most sources credit him with having been a kind, honorable man who was respected by his peers. Piero may have been physically impaired, but he was by all accounts an intelligent, sincere, and effective ruler. He was a scrupulous businessman and a gifted diplomat. The lack of attention that he has received from scholars is caused by his placement within history and, to some degree, by bad luck.
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Piero II de' Medici.
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici.
the Fatuous.
"Last of the five, Piero di Lorenzo would all too soon be known as Piero the Fatuous. His father's artistic achievements and pretensions to nobility proved less transferable assets than the vast monetary wealth left by his great-grandfather, now drastically diminished. Born in 1472, Piero possessed but one talent, a flair for the game of Florentine football, as a result of which his years as head of the family were an unhappy parody of this father's more effective maneuverings. He fled Florence, perhaps unnecessarily, as French troops approached the city in 1494. The family wealth was confiscated, the bank collapsed, and ten years later Piero confirmed his incompetence, or perhaps just bad luck, when he drowned crossing the Garigliano, a river north of Naples." (Parks. Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence: 4)
the Unfortunate
"Piero was not doing very well in his life of exile, either. He never saw his hometown of Florence again. In 1503, while serving in the French army, his boat overturned in the Mediterranean Sea just south of Italy, and he drowned. He became known as Piero the Unfortunate." (Doak. Pope Leo X: Opponent of the Reformation: 31)
" . . . As the eldest son, Piero was destined to succeed his father as the ruler of Florence. . . When Lorenzo died in 1492, Piero was only twenty years old. Although he had been schooled by his father, Piero was ill equipped to handle the complexities of governing Florence during a time of political instability, and it was Piero's political fate that earned him the nickname 'the Unfortunate'." (Dreese. The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: 350)
Pietro I of Savoy (c1048-1078)
the Younger, the Youth.
--" . . . Peter, the third son, on the death of his nephew Boniface, without issue, in 1263, succeeded to the county of Savoy, and from his distinguished talents received the appellation of the little Charlemagne. During the troubles of the empire he extended his influence and authority over the Lower Vallois, and the Pays de Vaud, which had formerly belonged to the kingdom of Arles, or Burgundy. . . ." (History of the House of Austria, Vol 1: 47)
--"This Peter II owed his appellation of 'Little Charlemagne' no less to his talents as a legislator, than to his valour as a warrior. . . ." (History of Piedmont, Vol 1: 262)
the Valiant Charlemagne: " . . . Peter of Savoy, Canon of Lausanne, became in 1229, at the age of twenty-six, Provost of the Canons of Geneva. . . On the death of his father in 1232, he threw off his cassock, turned soldier, married Agnes whom the Count of Faucigny made his heiress at the expense of her elder sister, and then took to free-booting. . . Somewhat later, being the uncle of Elinor of Provence, Queen of England, he was created Earl of Richmond by his nephew Henry III and studied the art of government in London. . . 'A wise man,' says an old chronicler, 'of lofty stature and athletic strength, proud, daring, terrible as a lion, resembling the most famous paladins, so brave that he was called the valiant (preux) Charlemagne'---possessing the organising genius that founds states and the warlike disposition that conquers them---Peter seized the castle of Geneva in 1250, and held it as a security for 35,000 silver marks which he pretended the count owed him. . . In 1267 the second Charlemagne was forced to declare by a public act that he refused to take Geneva under his protection. . . He died in 1268." (d'Aubigne: 16)
Piero il Scandalezzatore: " . . . Piero was a wastrel, the exponent of his father’s worst passions—Piero, “Il Scandalezzatore” as he was rightly called. . . ." (Book Rags)
Peter II of Pskov (d.aft.1510)
the Found.
Mauclerc: Peter Mauclerc (Fr. Pierre Mauclerc): "Pierre de Dreux was a masculine character,--a bad cleric, as his nickname Mauclerc testified, but a gentleman, a soldier, and a scholar, and, what is more . . . a man of taste. . . ." (Adams: 78)
the Fat, the Corpulent: "Peter II died in 1382 at the early age of twenty-eight. He had become very obese; the lad who had begun his career as Perrin ended it with the unattractive sobriquet of Peter the Fat. . . ." (Setton: 367)
Pierre II of Preuilly (d.1173), Lord of Preuilly
Montrabel:
Montrabel:
Pierre Augereau
the Brigand:
the Big Prussian: [38]
Lafon of the French:
le Beau Lafon:
the Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach:"Pierre du Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard, surnamed 'The Knight without fear and without reproach,' was born near Grenoble, in 1476. This brave and loyal captain distinguished himself greatly during the wars of Italy. He defended Mezieres, and died on the retreat from Romagnano, in 1525." (Pardoe: 55)
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