Everyone knows Richard the Lion-Hearted and William and Conqueror. Here’s a list of less auspicous royal nicknames:

• “Charles the Bad” (Charles II of Navarre)
• “William the Bastard” (William I of England)
• “Coloman the Bookish” (Coloman of Hungary)
• “Alfonso the Chaste” (Alfonso II of Aragon)
• “Peter the Ceremonious” (Peter IV of Aragon
• “Edmund the Deed-Doer” (Edmund I of England)
• “Henry the Fat” (Henry III of Champagne)
• “Louis the Indolent” (Louis V of France)
• “Edgar the Outlaw” (Edgar Atheling)
• “Constantius the Pale” (Constantius Chlorus)
• “Louis the Sluggard” (Louis V of France)
• “Garcia the Trembler” (Garcia II of Navarre)

Worst of all: “Constantine the Dung-Named,” Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. Supposedly he defecated in his baptismal font in 718. Nice going.