"The Great," "The Lionhearted," "The Terrible," and "The Conqueror", etc.

[Sample_the_Dog]

If you’re interested in dubbing your own cognomens, visit the “Modern day cognomens” thread.

[emekthian]

@Sample_the_Dog

I think this is a fine tradition that deserves reviving. How 'bout these for starters?

Bush the Benighted
Rush the Unread
Stern the Stentorious
Clinton the Carpetbagger
Whoopi the Whiney
Rosseanne the Rude
Michael the Maladjusted

Kerry the Conquered
Keanu the Talentless
Blair the Besmirched
Ayn the Abomination
Richard the Flagrantly Homosexual

[Acsenray]

@Tamerlane

I’m particularly fond of his father, Duke Robert I, aka Robert the Magnificient AND Robert the Devil. Talk about your contradictions ;).

And wasn’t he also known as Robert the Weasel or was that his father?

@Yllaria

RS&CRW (Read somewhere and can’t remember where) that Richard III was not called ‘Lionheart’ in his lifetime, but rather Mr. Yes and No (in French). Apparently he liked to keep his options open long after his staff and allies would have preferred a concrete decision.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

I don’t know the answer, but I believe you’re talking about Richard I, not Richard III

[Tamerlane]

@acsenray

And wasn’t he also known as Robert the Weasel or was that his father?

Different Norman duke. That was Robert Guiscard ( “weasel” ) de Hauteville, eventual duke of Apulia and Calabria by conquest in south Italy.

• Tamerlane

[Yllaria]

I believe you’re talking about Richard I, not Richard III

:smack: yes - that would be him.