Roderick MacKenzie Lord of Coigach
the Tutor of Kintail [61]
Father Maccabee:
the Last King of the Goths:
the Last of the Goths: " . . . The Goths had lost that reputation for honesty and chastity which in the earlier days of their power had distinguished them from the Romans. Rodrigo, 'the last of the Goths,' lived a life of such flagrant profligacy that the coming of the Moors was but just punishment for all his sins. As Miss Yonge has remarked, 'the fall of Gothic Spain was one of the disasters that served to justify the saying that all great catastrophes are caused by women.'. . . ." (Women of the Romance Countries)
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (1043-1099)
Campi Doctor or Campeador: " . . . When Sancho II ascended the throne of Castile (1066), he named Rodrigo royal alferez (armiger regis, or standard bearer. As such he participated in quarrels with the neighbouring kingdoms: a dispute with Navarre over the castle of Pazuengos, in which he gained the nickname Campi doctor or Campeador. . . . (Emmerson & Clayton-Emmerson: 172)
el Cid Campeador [62]: "It is sufficiently remarkable that while Ruy Diaz has ever been known to Christian writers by his Arab title of the Cid (Said), he was spoken of by his Moslem contemporaries and chroniclers under his Spanish surname of the Campeador (el Ganbitur). The title Campeador, which may be translated Challenger, has nothing to do with the Latin Campus: but it is derived from the Teutonic Champh=a single combat. The verb Kamfjan is equivalent to--todo battle; and Kamfjo, Anglo-Saxon Campa=a gladiator, athlete or combatant. Hence the medieval Latin words campeare, whence Latin campeator, and Spanish Campeador, a challenger... The Arabic word for a campeador is mobdris. . . ." (Burke: 187)
the Challenger: "Two years before William of Normandy landed at Hastings, a Castilian knight, a youth who had already own for himself the proud title of The Challenger, from his reckless bravery and his success in single combat, is found leading the royal armies of Sancho of Castile against the enemy. The knight was Ruy Diaz de Bivar. . . ." (Burke: 185)
Rodrigo Diaz of Castile (d. after 930)
el Abolmondar [20]
the French [21]: Rodrigo Gonzalez de Lara, "the son of a well-placed nobleman, Gonzalo Nunez, who may have been called 'el Franco' for his support of Alfonso VII, the son of a French nobleman."
the Toy Boy. ""Feminism was growing but still there was a double standard that for an older woman being with a younger man at that time was a huge thing, and much more than it would be today. And so that was a part of it, so he was constantly referred to as her “Toy Boy.” Politicians called him that when they were attacking the royal family in parliament. So [their relationship] was used as a weapon against the royal family." (T&C Magazine)
the Old:
the Bearded: " . . . He was nicknamed Barbatus or La Barbe from the fact of his wearing a moustache and beard whilst the Normans usually were clean shaven. . . ." (Beaumont, p. 4)
the Spaniard: "Roger, lord de Toeni and de Conches, surnamed of Spain, on account of his having visited that country (probably banished for some previous offence), during duke Robert's pilgrimage to the Holy. Land, and where he signalized himself by his exploits against the Moors, was descended, according to William de Jumieges, or rather his continuator and interpolator, from Matahulce, uncle of Rollo, but that could only be in the female line. The imperious character of Robert, which probably caused his journey to Spain, immediately exhibited itself after his return, and he openly refused to submit to the authority of a child, who was also illegitimate. This susceptibility, though it is asserted by a number of his contemporaries, may well surprise those who are aware of the frightful barbarism which then prevailed. Roger de Toeni having become, by his ravages and devastations, insupportable to all his neighbours, and more especially to Humphrey de Vieilles, he attacked him with his vassals, headed by his son, Roger de Beaumont and the aggressor fell in the conflict, with his two sons." (Ordericus Vitalis: 149)
"Roger de Toesny...got his nickname from having fought against the Moors in Spain as a young man [and] he married Adelaida Borell, a daughter of Ramon Borell, Count of Barcelona...." (de Toesny)
the Greatest Traitor
the King of Folly (by his son Geoffrey)
the Traitor.
the King of Folly (by his son Geoffrey)
the Traitor.
Roger of Ivry (d. after 1153)
Balbosus [27]
the Great Captain [28]
the Great
2nd Earl of Norfolk
the Surety:
1st Earl of Orrery
the Wise: [29]
Roger de Saint-Lary de Termes, 1st Duke of Bellegarde.
Roger Mortimer (1287-1330)
1st Earl of March, 1328
the King of Folly
the Queen's Paragon and the King's Master: "Mortimer was now 'so proud and high that he held no lord of the realm his equal.' He insisted that everyone had to refer to him as 'my lord Earl of March.' This was the cause of 'great contention' among both the nobility and the common people, who called Mortimer 'the Queen's paragon and the King's master, who destroys the King's blood and usurps the regal majesty.' Even Mortimer's own son named him 'the King of Folly." (Weir: 344)
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