Best Nicknames?

Conn of the Hundred Battles and Sigtrygg Silkbeard are my personal favourites

The early Scottish Kings had some good ones

Kenneth the Conqueror
Constantine the Wine Drinker
Giric, Son of Fortune
Donald the Madman
Malcom the Death-Red
Indulf the Agitator
Kenneth the Brother Killer
Malcolm the Destroyer

Antigonus the one-eyed
Artaxerxes the one with good memory

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Audie "Greatest soldier" Murphy
Simo " White death" Hayha.
Barbarossa
vlad the impaler.
Lew "The Tower from Power" Alcindor.

"Gentleman" Johnny Burgoyne
"Mad" Anthony Wayne
"Calico" Jack Rackham
"Stormin" Norman Schwarzkopf

Joseph "Bottle Joe" I of Spain
Charles II "the Bewitched"

Emperor Napoleon "Italian midget autist" Bonaparte of France

Donald Drumpf

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Harald "Gold-Beard"
Eirik "Bloodaxe"
Harald "Hard-Rule"/ "the Devastator of Bulgaria"
Sigurd "Snake-in-the-Eye"
Haakon "the Good, Aethelstan-raised"
Magnus "Barefoot"
Sigurd the "Jerusalem-traveller" (directly translated)
Harald "Fairhair"

I've always been fond of Charles "The Hammer" Martel. It's got a beautiful simplicity to it.

Zawisza "The Black" always intrigued me

Ethelred the Unready

Seamus a' chaca

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Hellenistic epithets were pretty hardcore

Antiochus Hierax ("Hawk")
Artemidoros Aniketos ("the Invincible")
Demetrios Poliorketes ("Besieger")
those dozen rulers named Epiphanes ("God-Manifest")
Seleukos II Kallinikos ("Beautiful Victor")
Ptolemy Keraunos ("Thunder")
Seleukos I Nikator ("Victor")

Mike "stray from God's path, feel Ampère's wrath" Pence

Constantine V Copronymus, literally means Constantine V "the shit-named." Legend has It that as a baby he fouled the waters of his baptismal font. This wasn't an official title but rather an epithet that was used in a derogatory way by his opponents. It's unsure whether or not this legend is true.