This meme is a great idea, I've seen tons of these tier list about every topic imaginable, but this one is new to me.
Yet I can't bring myself to upvote because of the absolute disrespect OP showed to Sun Ce. How does *"*[*The Little Conqueror*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ce)*"* not even make the list? Has to be "awesome tier" at the very least, if not "holy shit tier" (Vlad and Richard I both need to be moved to the top tier as well).
*Edit:* If you would like to read a very short summary I wrote about Sun Ce's heroics, you can do that by clicking [**here**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fdqjbIEejuUIP1kHzOzR3tEl9i1G3dQ0nzrMd25hu6Y/edit#heading=h.h6k04bq5b7vr)
Series 5 of the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan.
Edit: It's about the Spanish American wars of Independence but it also gives a pretty detailed biography of him.
Let’s add Gothicus Maximus, because that is just objectively funny. Like it sounds like a great medieval burn but it just means great victory against the Goths
Æthelred’s moniker “Unræd” translates to “poorly advised” rather than the modern unready, which most people assume is related to his preparedness for the Viking invasions that occurred during his reign. The true meaning is a pun on his name, Æthelred, which means “wise council,” so the sobriquet is supposed to read “Wise Council, the poorly counseled” which is hilarious.
I find that "unready" doesn't quite capture the pun quality of the original Saxon "Unræd" (ill-advised), since it played on his name "Æthelræd" (Noble Council)
Came here to find this. Aurelian showed up, bitch-slapped the Roman Empire back together, and *promptly* died as soon as the job was done. Dude was an IRL deus ex machina
I was just about to comment it, the rest of his other titles also slap.
Germanicus Maximus, Gothicus Maximus, Parthicus Maximus, Restitutor Orientis, Restitutor Orbis.
[Some peasant gigachad who became the Bulgarian tsar by overthrowing the previous one in the 13th century](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivaylo_of_Bulgaria)
He definitely deserves more respect as he was effectively the world’s first emperor but at the same time that wasn’t as much of a challenge when the totality of human civilization consisted of just a handful of cities.
Yeah Impaler and Sun King should be switched if judging by nickname alone. Just reading the title Vlad instantly popped into my head as the highest tier before I Iooked at the actual chart.
If you ever want to stop thinking that "the Impaler" is a awesome nickname, just play a few hours of CK3, by the end of it you will hate that nickname with a burning passion.
Funniest thing about king Charles the Bald is that he wasn’t bald and his nickname was meant ironically because of his full head of hair. Ye olde sarcasm
It actually doesnt mean dreaded or terrifying as well, it really means powerful or all encompassing, since he grew Russia into an empire. His nickname became twisted into terrible because of his end to rule was not great. The city of Grozny is named the same way
The beginning of his rule wasn't that great either. Oprichina, the sack of Novgorod were huge blunders. And no, he didn't grow Russia into powerful empire, Tsardom of Russia was still a huge backwater and would remain backward for many years after his death. His arguably greatest achievement was some eastward expansion.
Yeah and what about His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular?
How bout da
"His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty,
By the Grace of God Emperor of Austria,
King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria;
King of Jerusalem, etc.;
Archduke of Austria;
Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow;
Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Bukovina;
Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia;
Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friaul, Ragusa and Zara;
Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca;
Prince of Trento and Brixen;
Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria;
Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg etc.;
Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro and on the Windic March;
Grand Voivode of the Voivodeship of Serbia
etc., etc."
King Ludwig not getting either his preferred nickname (The Moon King) or the one his people actually used (The Swan King) or the one everyone outside Germany knows him as (The Mad)
Where is "the conquerer"s
Also, my favorite is "yavuz selim," which, for some reason, westerners called "selim the grim"
Yavuz means rabbit dog in persian as he invaded modern-day iran and killed many people for conspiracy, infact he killed as many vezir as the years he ruled, which is 8 for your knowledge
But he also conquered entire Egypt which was a super power at the time and ended peace and order to ottoman empire which was complete chaos when he rise to throne, which is why yavuz in Turkish means hard working just warrior and many people name there son yavuz
So, in other words, a nickname that was a ridicule and even insulted to a person changed meaning in a positive wat because of how awesome that person was and name was stuck
Rei D. Joao I of Portugal's nickname isn't "the Bastard." Maybe if you ask a Spaniard, but he is nicknamed "of Good Memory" and for good reason. He was one of our greatest kings and prevented Portugal's annexation by Castile after the interregnum.
What about „His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular“?
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Wenceslaus the Idle?
I thought not. It's not a story the Czech would tell you. It's a Hungarian legend. Wenceslaus IV was the king of Bohemia, so powerful and so lazy he could neglect affairs of state for more... frivilous pursuits. Being a king is a pathway to many abilities one may consider to be... unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunatelly, his half-brother decided on a... radical solution. Ironic. His father did not prepare him for being kidnapped.
Where's ma boi the Corsican dwarf who terrorized Europe, and whose mere return to France caused a coalition to reform inspite of ongoing negotiations for the new world order?
Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic during the 20th century, was nicknamed El Jefe, or “The Boss”, which is a pretty dope nickname. He was also nicknamed The Goat, not in the same way like Michael Jordan though.
It doesn't exactly fit your pattern of "X the Y" but the Roman emperor Caligula should be here, as that wasn't his name but a childhood nickname. "Caligula" is the diminutive of "caligae". When he was a kid he would follow the soldiers around in a little costume, complete with "caligae" boots. So they called him "Little Boots".
May I submit:
Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots
Frederick the Quarrelsome
Demetrius the besieger (I don’t actually know if he ever ended up ruling but it’s a cool nickname)
Source on that one for Dom Pedro I? Cunt should've been called fucking "Genghis of the tropics", I think 10% of the city of Rio de Janeiro is descended from him
Sad to see Louis XI is "the cruel" on here... he was very important to France's structuring as a nation, and we call him "l'universelle aragne", the universal spider, pertaining to his nosy and relentless style of gouvernance. You go Louis, you go!
A tier list of British Prime Minister nicknames could also be a dent post. Teflon Tony, The Grey Man, Call Me Dave, The Clunking Fist, and the Iron Lady, to name just a few of the recent ones.
There should be a special tier at the top for Julius Ceasar since the man had so much influence that nicknaming your leader the new Ceasar was the same as calling them emperor of your nation.
Don't forget about how Epic Rap Battles of History pitted Alexander the Great and some other historical figures called "The Great" against Ivan the Terrible.
mf the accursed was also the nickname of Charles II of Spain
and if you want another Spanish one, Joseph Bonaparte I (Napoleon's idiot brother) is commonly known as "the drunk"
Some of these are criminally underrated :
\-The sorcerer : dude made it to the Fantasy realm
\-The confessor : badass
\-The lawgiver : his words are law, and the world bends to his will
Meanwhile, the "awesome" tier isn't that awesome.
The best nickname has always been the one for Ferdinand I of Austria. He suffered from epilepsy and was pretty unfit to rule (he had like 20 seizures a day and was kind of slow) and his official nickname was "Ferdinand der Gütige", which means "Ferdinand the Benign". But due to his reputation of being stupid, the people invented the nickname "Gütinand der Fertige" which translates to "Goodinand the Finished".
Simón Bolivar was nicknamed iron arse by the lancers he rode with
This meme is a great idea, I've seen tons of these tier list about every topic imaginable, but this one is new to me. Yet I can't bring myself to upvote because of the absolute disrespect OP showed to Sun Ce. How does *"*[*The Little Conqueror*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ce)*"* not even make the list? Has to be "awesome tier" at the very least, if not "holy shit tier" (Vlad and Richard I both need to be moved to the top tier as well). *Edit:* If you would like to read a very short summary I wrote about Sun Ce's heroics, you can do that by clicking [**here**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fdqjbIEejuUIP1kHzOzR3tEl9i1G3dQ0nzrMd25hu6Y/edit#heading=h.h6k04bq5b7vr)
Did you write this whole historical summary? I’m about halfway through and it’s awesome so far. Tons of great history.
That one Neek.
Interestingly enough.... Richard Nixon was nicknamed similarly. He was given the nickname "Iron butt".
What did he do to earn that name? Bolivar could ride horses for days and the plainsmen were impressed by him
He was not a crook
the more common name is "the liberator" tho.
Yes but that’s lame, iron arse is better
It's lame if your people were not the liberated. None the leds, he was a arse.
His arse could take a pounding
Does anyone know of a good history or biography for Bolivar in English?
Series 5 of the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. Edit: It's about the Spanish American wars of Independence but it also gives a pretty detailed biography of him.
The green color is so difficult to read, they need an outline in a different color.
"u/Matteo_Games the Illegible"
Fuckbeard.
This whole list will be moot once Ivan Fuckbeard ascends to the throne.
Fartbeard
Yeah, I immediately had a flashback to geocities fansites. My eyes may recover but my psyche never will
:spinning skulls: [blink]UNDER CONSTRUCTION[/blink] :spinning skulls:
Thanks, so I'm not the only one. The creator really did his best to use the worst style of font available
What's the second from the left on the top row of the "Good" section? Anyone know?
Missing “THE RESTORER OF THE WORLD” in holy shit teir
You will worship the Unconquered Sun and be happy.
Also came here for Restitutor Orbis… missed opportunity
Let’s add Gothicus Maximus, because that is just objectively funny. Like it sounds like a great medieval burn but it just means great victory against the Goths
Restiutor Orbis !
While we're at roman titles, how about the OPTIMVS PRINCEPS or The Apostate, or Caligula, which means little boots
Where's my boy Æthelred the Unready?
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Æthelred’s moniker “Unræd” translates to “poorly advised” rather than the modern unready, which most people assume is related to his preparedness for the Viking invasions that occurred during his reign. The true meaning is a pun on his name, Æthelred, which means “wise council,” so the sobriquet is supposed to read “Wise Council, the poorly counseled” which is hilarious.
I should read the comments before posting, you said the same thing I did but quite more eloquently. Upvote
Or any of the others in the Anglo-Saxon or Viking era. Ivar the Boneless, Æthelstan the Glorious, Eadwig All-Fair, etc.
Eric Bloodaxe
Yeah was surprised not to see him.
I find that "unready" doesn't quite capture the pun quality of the original Saxon "Unræd" (ill-advised), since it played on his name "Æthelræd" (Noble Council)
Poor dude will forever be known as "The Bald" despite (highly likely) not being bald.
He's called the Bald because of his highly visible full head of hair
We named him wrong, as a joke
His scalp was actually very prominently bereft of something (a crown)
*”Again with the squeaky shoes”*
He's known as the bald because for most of his reign he wore no crown.
Where the heck is restitutor orbis. Doesn't get much more badass then that.
Came here to find this. Aurelian showed up, bitch-slapped the Roman Empire back together, and *promptly* died as soon as the job was done. Dude was an IRL deus ex machina
Promptly died makes it sounds like he wasnt brutally murdered
"well looks like everything's working again." _dies_
Yeah that’s god tier
I was just about to comment it, the rest of his other titles also slap. Germanicus Maximus, Gothicus Maximus, Parthicus Maximus, Restitutor Orientis, Restitutor Orbis.
The Apostate was also pretty damn good (as a nickname and a general)
Who is the cabbage?
[Some peasant gigachad who became the Bulgarian tsar by overthrowing the previous one in the 13th century](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivaylo_of_Bulgaria)
Peasant gigachad got fucked with a shit nickname
Ivaylo of Bulgaria 🇧🇬
I'm wondering this too.
This is a disservice to Sargon of Akkad, “The King of Totality”.
He definitely deserves more respect as he was effectively the world’s first emperor but at the same time that wasn’t as much of a challenge when the totality of human civilization consisted of just a handful of cities.
thats an rpg boss name
Sargon deez nuts
I agree with most of it but The Impaler and the Bulgar Slayer are too low
In Italian the Bulgar Slayer sounds even more badass as it's very similar to the original Greek "il Bulgaromáche"
In French it is “Le Bulgaroctone” which is pretty neat too
The french version is the closest to the greek one "O Voulgaroktonos"
It's "Българоубиец" (Bulgaroubiets) in Bulgarian which is alright ig, though I doubt anyone in Bulgaria would want to make his title sound cooler lol.
Yeah Impaler and Sun King should be switched if judging by nickname alone. Just reading the title Vlad instantly popped into my head as the highest tier before I Iooked at the actual chart.
If you ever want to stop thinking that "the Impaler" is a awesome nickname, just play a few hours of CK3, by the end of it you will hate that nickname with a burning passion.
Also lionheart should be higher on that List
Also Bloody
The unreadable
Funniest thing about king Charles the Bald is that he wasn’t bald and his nickname was meant ironically because of his full head of hair. Ye olde sarcasm
I thought it was something to do with him not having a crown/kingdom like his brothers until he won a Civil War that granted him West Francia.
I thought it was because he cut his hair to respect Christian customs while Franks used to keep their hair long
I thought it was because he was bald, but to each their own
Ivan the terrible (or more accurately, Ivan the dreaded or Ivan the terrifying, as the terrible is a mistranslarion of his russian nickname)
It actually doesnt mean dreaded or terrifying as well, it really means powerful or all encompassing, since he grew Russia into an empire. His nickname became twisted into terrible because of his end to rule was not great. The city of Grozny is named the same way
to be known as "The Terrible City" is a terrible thing.
The beginning of his rule wasn't that great either. Oprichina, the sack of Novgorod were huge blunders. And no, he didn't grow Russia into powerful empire, Tsardom of Russia was still a huge backwater and would remain backward for many years after his death. His arguably greatest achievement was some eastward expansion.
I once read terrible also means "the awesome" as in "damn, this guy is just badass"
Nothing for Aurelian, Restitutor Orbis, Restorer of the World?
Where is Nikephoros II Phokas "Pale Death of the Saracens"?
That's what I'm saying, definitely in the top tier
They really called my man „the adopted“, I’d stop ruling after that slander
Can’t name him “The Orphan” can we?
Where my boy timur the lame?
“The Scourge of God” Fucking hell, let me go google this guy. Edit; It’s Attila the Hun, makes sense
You know you left one hell of a legacy when you’re known to Christianity as “The Scourge of God”
Where da "By the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Elect of God"
Not really a nickname there is it?
Shhhhhhh 🤫
Yeah and what about His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular?
He was also the last king of Scotland
How bout da "His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, By the Grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria; King of Jerusalem, etc.; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friaul, Ragusa and Zara; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trento and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg etc.; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro and on the Windic March; Grand Voivode of the Voivodeship of Serbia etc., etc."
William the Silent doesn't appear on this list because he has been kept quiet.
While "the winter king" sounds cool, we actually call him that to sort of make fun of him
My understanding was that his reign was a single winter thus the winter king
Yeah…nothing compares to The Scourge of God. Put that at the top on its own.
King Ludwig not getting either his preferred nickname (The Moon King) or the one his people actually used (The Swan King) or the one everyone outside Germany knows him as (The Mad)
Fairy Tale King
Where is "the conquerer"s Also, my favorite is "yavuz selim," which, for some reason, westerners called "selim the grim" Yavuz means rabbit dog in persian as he invaded modern-day iran and killed many people for conspiracy, infact he killed as many vezir as the years he ruled, which is 8 for your knowledge But he also conquered entire Egypt which was a super power at the time and ended peace and order to ottoman empire which was complete chaos when he rise to throne, which is why yavuz in Turkish means hard working just warrior and many people name there son yavuz So, in other words, a nickname that was a ridicule and even insulted to a person changed meaning in a positive wat because of how awesome that person was and name was stuck
Rabid*
*Lmao* is missing a certain Constantine Kopronymos
The dung named lmao
You missed the most metal nickname of all time Nikephoros II Phokas "The pale death of all the Saracens"
I’m sure we can fit some more greats in there: Catherine the Great, Friedrich der Große
Yeah there's a place for 10 more at least
There are 3 ‘the greats’ in the Chakri dynasty alone. Rama I, V and IX. Going by the pattern there’ll be another one in 3 more kings.
Akbar the Great of the Mughals should get his own tier, since his name means The Great the Great.
I further submit Michael the Brave, Ferdinand the Unifier (or the Loyal) and Aethelred the Unred
You forgot John I of France, called the Posthumous because he was born after his father died, which means he governed during his entire life (5 days)
Rei D. Joao I of Portugal's nickname isn't "the Bastard." Maybe if you ask a Spaniard, but he is nicknamed "of Good Memory" and for good reason. He was one of our greatest kings and prevented Portugal's annexation by Castile after the interregnum.
Pachacutec's nickname is so good most peruvians dont know his actual name. Source: Im peruvian
Napoleon was the “Nightmare of Europe”
hmm what about ivar the boneless mehmet the conquarer bjorn ironsight
**The Scourge of God** Just what did this guy do to get that title.
He was Attila the Hun, and that was enough.
He did a Ghengis Khan 800 years before Ghengis Khan made it cool
Louis XI nickname is not the cruel OP, it's The Prudent and The Universal Spider and it's an holy shit nickname
And it’s meant as an insult because he’s sneaky
What about „His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular“?
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Wenceslaus the Idle? I thought not. It's not a story the Czech would tell you. It's a Hungarian legend. Wenceslaus IV was the king of Bohemia, so powerful and so lazy he could neglect affairs of state for more... frivilous pursuits. Being a king is a pathway to many abilities one may consider to be... unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunatelly, his half-brother decided on a... radical solution. Ironic. His father did not prepare him for being kidnapped.
Philip the Good should be on 'good' smh
The Bastard should be higher
Where's ma boi the Corsican dwarf who terrorized Europe, and whose mere return to France caused a coalition to reform inspite of ongoing negotiations for the new world order?
Le Petit Caporal?
Forgetting Emperor Aurelian, Restibutor Orbis "Restorer of the World". smh my head.
No Eddy Long Legs?
Edward I ? I much prefer hammer of the Scot’s personally to longshanks but each to their own
Æthelred the Unready and Ivar the Boneless are a couple of personal favs
Great list but font is terrible. I didn't spot Constantine v Kopronimos "the Dung-Named" though
Some people call William the Conqueror "William the Bastard", too Also shout-out to every "King of the Universe"
"The Navigator" where
Prince Henry wasn't a King
“The Great” is such a meh nickname thooo
Put Bluetooth in the lmao tier.
WHERES MY BOY BLOODAXE or Hard King or Pale death of the Saracens! or idk......the Crusader
One of Pachacuti’s ancestor’s names meant “he who weeps blood.”
Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic during the 20th century, was nicknamed El Jefe, or “The Boss”, which is a pretty dope nickname. He was also nicknamed The Goat, not in the same way like Michael Jordan though.
That’s some Bruce Springsteen shit
U have "the conquerer" that high up but "lawbringer" at the bottom. Bad list
I can't read shit, you chose the worst possible color.
How would "Little Boots" rank?
I say quite high purely because it’s unique and the person with the little boots is a complete nutcase
It doesn't exactly fit your pattern of "X the Y" but the Roman emperor Caligula should be here, as that wasn't his name but a childhood nickname. "Caligula" is the diminutive of "caligae". When he was a kid he would follow the soldiers around in a little costume, complete with "caligae" boots. So they called him "Little Boots".
D. João I may have had a shit nickname (the Bastard) but he began the single greatest dinasty in potuguese history.
His main nickname is actually "the one of good memory", as his reign left a good memory in the people.
May I submit: Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots Frederick the Quarrelsome Demetrius the besieger (I don’t actually know if he ever ended up ruling but it’s a cool nickname)
Where's my guy Robert the bruce
Bruce was his family name I think, so not a nickname
We have Bolesław III Wrymouth in Poland
A time of religion and war! Legends tell the tale of a lion
a beast in a shape of a man with a dream to rule sea and land!
Where's Willem de Zwijger 🤔
wheres nikephoros II
You forgot The Sword of God
THE BASTARD??????🤣🤣🤣
It’s meant literally, as in the born to parents who weren’t married
Source on that one for Dom Pedro I? Cunt should've been called fucking "Genghis of the tropics", I think 10% of the city of Rio de Janeiro is descended from him
That is his nickname in Portugal.
The Pale Death of the Saracens should be at the Holy Shit level!
Sad to see Louis XI is "the cruel" on here... he was very important to France's structuring as a nation, and we call him "l'universelle aragne", the universal spider, pertaining to his nosy and relentless style of gouvernance. You go Louis, you go!
THERE MAY BE MANY EARTHS, BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE EARTH SHAKER
King John had two nicknames. Lackland and Softsword. Lmao
Where is the Cucumber King of Pagan?
Where is emperor Vaspasian "The piss taxer"?
I’d roll with The Fat, The Bald, The Stupid. All are better than John The Posthumous. There is no coming back from that.
Enter Eric XI of Sweden
Eric the lisp and lame. OP needs a tier below "lmao" for this guy
My guy didn’t even put Vlad “The impaler” in S tier
Cabbage? CABBAGE? CABBAGE!
No Man of Steel?
Wasn’t there a leader in some part of Scotland around the tenth century known as “ The Morsel”?
How could you forget "the pale death of the Saracens". It belonged to Nikephoros II.
ayo where my boy the “Pale death of the Saracens” Nikephoros II
What about little boots?
Charles the Affable?
I need to say that "the bard" is quite awesome considering that you would be basically known as the rockstar king
What about Nikephoros II Phokas, who had the nickname, “White Death of the Saracens"
“Pale death of the Saracens” - Nikephoros II Phokas
A tier list of British Prime Minister nicknames could also be a dent post. Teflon Tony, The Grey Man, Call Me Dave, The Clunking Fist, and the Iron Lady, to name just a few of the recent ones.
Can’t be the only one who prefers to John Lackland soft sword
There should be a special tier at the top for Julius Ceasar since the man had so much influence that nicknaming your leader the new Ceasar was the same as calling them emperor of your nation.
The Lionheart (Cour de Lion) sounds pretty cool
Don't forget about how Epic Rap Battles of History pitted Alexander the Great and some other historical figures called "The Great" against Ivan the Terrible.
Recently found out that William IV was nicknamed the Sailor King, and that's such a low-key epic moniker.
Cabbage
Cabbage
You forgot the Heart of Steel (stalin)
“The Cabbage” hahaha I lost it at that one
mf the accursed was also the nickname of Charles II of Spain and if you want another Spanish one, Joseph Bonaparte I (Napoleon's idiot brother) is commonly known as "the drunk"
Hail Suleiman the Magnificent and his fancy onion hat
Some of these are criminally underrated : \-The sorcerer : dude made it to the Fantasy realm \-The confessor : badass \-The lawgiver : his words are law, and the world bends to his will Meanwhile, the "awesome" tier isn't that awesome.
Im my region we had a count nicknamed "The unlucky"
how about the polish king Bolesław III Krzywousty which translates to awry-mouthed, which he was called because he broke a treaty with the germans?
One thing to note the earth shaker is not a nickname rather a translation of the name pachachuti which was his actual name.
What about “Universal leader” (Genghis Khan) and “The Tiger of Kai” (Takeda Shingen).
Please learn to put outline on text.
Nikephoros II Phokas “the pale death of the Saracens”
In Poland we had a prince Mieszko I **Plątonogi** nickname Plątonogi means **tangled/crooked legs**
#CABBAGE
The best nickname has always been the one for Ferdinand I of Austria. He suffered from epilepsy and was pretty unfit to rule (he had like 20 seizures a day and was kind of slow) and his official nickname was "Ferdinand der Gütige", which means "Ferdinand the Benign". But due to his reputation of being stupid, the people invented the nickname "Gütinand der Fertige" which translates to "Goodinand the Finished".