Historians are famously naming things and people (the X years war) but who has the best title in history?
Some Candidates
>sueliman the magnificent
>selim the grim
>thorkell the high
>ivajlo the cabbage
>basil the bulgar slayer
>ivan the terrible
And his bulgarian counterpart
>krum the horrible
Inb4
>the great
I think we all know this means essentially noth8ng at this point
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>Sigurdr Snake-in-the-Eye
>Matthias Corvinus
>Edward Longshanks
>Bayezid I the Thunderbolt
>Vlad III the Impaler
>Anund Jakob the Coal-Burner
Ethelred the Unready
Thomas "Silken Thomas" FitzGerald was always a fun one, though I have no idea why he's called that
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Scottish Kings have had some good ones
Áed of the White Flowers
Giric, Son of Fortune
Donald the Madman
Indulf the Aggressor
Kenneth the Brother-Slayer
Malcolm the Destroyer
John Empty Coat
Joe Medicine Crow
Title was War Chief of the Plains Indians except he won it fair and square after a hundred years of there being none because of his feats in Germany
I think the Chinese tradition of Emperors taking up Era Names - that is, the name Chinese Emperors take up for the realm to remember them by- is pretty unique in history.
I mean, just look at King Yinzheng. He literally named himself "Qin Shi Huang." Meaning "First Emperor of Qin."
Another badass one was Zhu Yuanzhang's title which he took after defeating the Mongol Yuan and other claimants to the Chinese throne: "Hongwu Emperor." Meaning "Vastly Martial Emperor."
Also I would like to add Semitic ones.
Eleazar Avaran "haMakabi" (Maccabeus) = Literally Eleazar the Hammer.
Khalid Ibn Walid " Saif ullah al-Maslūl" ("Drawn Sword of God.")
Thomas the albanian slayer
Emporer Michael dukas minus a quater
Ivan moneybags
Sancho the populator
Eric the preist hater
Tervel the savor or europe
Isabella the she wolf
Frederick the unique
Hugh capet wearing a cape
Constantine who fights alone
Kamehameha 'napoleon of the pacific'
>I think the Chinese tradition of Emperors taking up Era Names - that is, the name Chinese Emperors take up for the realm to remember them by- is pretty unique in history.
The Japanese do that too, but mostly because their high culture is heavily influenced by Chinese high culture
>Donald the Madman
Ivar the Boneless
Harald Bluetooth
Eric Bloodaxe
Frederick the Faggot
Edward the Black Prince. That's a name to run from right there.
Notice the moustache? He was a Turkish warrior by the name of Ertugrul the BLACK prince
happy this isnt a ylyl
Arthur Wellesley the Iron Duke
Napoleon le petit caporal
Robert Nivelle the butcher
Neville peace in our times Chamberlain
Stupid eurangutan, his title was Karaprins.
Damn I really fucked that up.
Adolf the virgin
I V A R T H E B O N E L E S S
Poland has some good ones
>Boleslaw the Chaste, who took vows of chastity with his wife and never had sex with her
>Wladylsaw Spindleshanks, because he had long skinny legs
>Mieszko Tanglefoot
>Wladyslaw the Elbow-high
>Leszek (I) the White and (II) the Black
MALLEUS SCOTORUM
>ivajlo the cabbage
How did he defeat the Mongols? Why did he trust them afterwards?
Edward I HAMMER OF THE SCOTS
Erik Bloodaxe king of norway
Harald Hard-Ruler
Stalin the Greatest
Hannibal Barca, son of Asdrubal Barca.
Barca was a vulgar writting of Baraq, which means Lightning in punic.
He was given said name for how fast his army moved in sicily during the first punic war
Nicolas the pissrag.
>Boleslaw the Chaste, who took vows of chastity with his wife and never had sex with her
Alpha
Mike “Cure the Gays with Tesla Rays” Pence.
William of ockham