Pre 1066 it was the usual practice in England to distinguish between different monarchs with the same name by means of a nickname relating to their rule instead of a number eg: Edward the Martyr and Edward the Confessor. After 1066 England slowly took up the continental practice of numbering their monarchs, although for a time they also kept giving them nicknames eg William I the Conqueror and William II Rufus and William III
Suppose the English retained the practice of using nicknames instead of numbering their monarchs. What would the nicknames of monarchs have been? Assume that no other changes take place other than this one minor change
We already have:
William the Conqueror
William Rufus
Henry Curtmantle (II)
Richard the Lionheart
John Lackland (I)
Edward Longshanks/Hammer of the Scots
You could have
Elizabeth the Virgin (I)
Henry the Great (V)
After the Union of the Crowns
Charles the Tyrant (I)
James the Catholic (II)
After the Act of Union
George the German (I)
George the Mad (III)
any thoughts?
Suppose the English retained the practice of using nicknames instead of numbering their monarchs. What would the nicknames of monarchs have been? Assume that no other changes take place other than this one minor change
We already have:
William the Conqueror
William Rufus
Henry Curtmantle (II)
Richard the Lionheart
John Lackland (I)
Edward Longshanks/Hammer of the Scots
You could have
Elizabeth the Virgin (I)
Henry the Great (V)
After the Union of the Crowns
Charles the Tyrant (I)
James the Catholic (II)
After the Act of Union
George the German (I)
George the Mad (III)
any thoughts?