What's your favorite historical title, /his/? For me, it's

Imperator.

It's not really a title per se, but "Praetorian" sounds pretty fucking sick.

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Archon, something sounds very weird and alien about it

>>284831

definitely

>>284810
I'm really fond of Kaiser and König

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His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE (Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular), Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas

Sultan-i-Rum

;^)

Conquistador sounds great.

>>284810
I like it more with the complete historical title of Shahanshah eran ud aneran. Otherwise "shah" alone has more style.

I also Khan a lot. And, while it can sound not original, I also like "King" a lot. But not the germanic version with king, konig, etc. but the latin version with Rex and his derivated like Roy, Re or Rey. It's a single syllable but a very strong one, and I like that.

Ze Kaiser

>>286288
It was never a title t.b.h. it just means "conqueror" in spanish. Alexander, Caesar and Genghis Khan were all conquistadores too.

Knugen.

dime yo
show gun

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I would have liked to be the viceroy of my own colony

Lord Protector

Basileus

Gunner Sergeant.

I like "Regent" for some reason. And Imperator is awesome, so is "Exarch", "Praetor", and "Quaestor". The Byzantines had pretty cool titles, like Autokrator, Vestarches, Protospatharios, Ostiarios, Spatharokandidatos and Protovestarios. The wackiest one is Hyperprōtopansebastohypertatos.

In the military, there was Protostrator, Stratopedarches, Hoplitarches, Protokentarchos, and Taxiarches.

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TRIBVNVS PLEBIS

tribune of the plebs

Despot

>>284810
Taliye is my favorite somali word ever. It means Captain

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>>286270
>Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular

Strategos always brings back fond memories

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>>286672
It's a noble title, held by some of the greatest men of the ages.

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I forgot to mention Lord Protector.

Caesar, of course.

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Jarl and konungr.

>>286270
Don't forget "Last King of Scotland"

>>286488
>>286723
This, I don't even like Brits

>>286601
kek

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Always enjoyed Tyrannos or Tyrannus.

>>286312
Heh

Grand Vizer is pretty cool.

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>>286723
I always loved seeing collars poking out from under well-fitted Greenwich armor. So fucking stylish.

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Basileus of Macedon
Hegemon of the Hellenic League
Shahanshah of Persia
Pharaoh of Egypt
Lord of Asia

I always thought "hierophant" sounded pretty cool.

I'm quite a big fan of Majordomo

>>286672
YES, STRATEGOS

>>288109
I studied the historical hierophants for a little while.

What a strange bunch.

Lately I've been really into Earldoman.

Padishah, Tsar', Khan, Imperator

>>286247
This too

>>288109
"Heresiarch" is cooler. But also not really a title you ever wanted to get.

General Admiral

>>288141
Who where the historical hierophants? Except the meme pagan not!bishops of Julian, of course.

Augustus

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This dude in my picture is one of the three reunificators or dynasts of Iran during the 18th century. Unlike the other two, he never claimed the title of shah.

Instead he called himself Vakil e Ra'âyâ, often shortened Vakil. Wikipedia translates it as "representative of the people", but you could very well translate it was "Attorney of the Plebeians".

>>288139
The only way I can read strategoes is in his voice.

>>284810
Shan Jahan or Shahanshah
Shah Jahan means king of the world
Shahanshah means king of kings

>>288417
We get it, you vape.

>>284810
'Mirza' is pretty cool. It's the Persian word for Prince. It's derived from the Arabic 'Emir' though. I also like 'Shahanshah' and 'Kshatriya'.

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>>284810
TFW no Führer

give me some hero titles /his/

Towel Attendant - Tang Dynasty

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I'm a fan of Wanax. Sounds kinda goofy but the Mycenaeans generally were.

Khagan
Shahanshah
Kwisatz Haderach

Primus inter Pares is pretty based.

I'm partial to Pontifex Maximus. It's a cool holdover from the Roman Republic that the Pope still uses.

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>"Fuldmægtig frue og husbond og Danmarks riges formynder"
>Sovereign Lady and Husband and the realm of Denmark's Guardian
Title of Margaret I, first ruler of all of Scandinavia including Iceland and Finland.

>>284810

Thane > Earl

şah-ı merdan

>>284831
This
Or Praetor

I really like the title of Bey.
Aside from this, the maire du palais was cool: the king was in power but he actually took decisions

>>286601
Tiberius Gracchus ftw

Imperator
Praetor
Field Marshal
Viceroy
Triumvir (or Decemvir)
Tetrarch
Condottiero

Or the Doge of Venice

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>>284810

it's gotta be 'doge'

or the greek titles, like ethnarch, or protospathakos, or pantokrator. they're just sound charismatic.

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>>284810
Jiedushi (lit. Military Governor)- T'ang Dynasty title. In practice really, its the Chinese empire deciding you're badass general enough to:
1) make your rank inheritable by your family
2) allow you to raise your own army
3) give you land in the frontier and collect taxes for your own purposes.

It's a pseudo-feudal rank smack in the middle of centralized Bureaucractic China.

Captain-General is pretty cool

>>286285
>Sultan-i-Rum

this desu senpai

Ranger-Captain has a good sound to it.

Particularly "Ranger-Captain of _______"

I like the title of Markgraf

>>289732
augustus pls we can see through your shit

RRREICHSKANZLERRR

>>284810
Megas doux or Megaduke sounds like a good name for a super hero.

It was acually just the commander in chief of the navy in Byzantium.

>>290200

No love for IIvir?

Generalfeldmarschall sounds amazing when spoked out loud with some emphasis and pacing

>>290644
OBERSTGRUPPENFÜHRER!

Governor-General

>>290605
Indeed, while essentially it means same thing as Marquis, Markgraf have better sound to it.
Probably because German language sounds angrier and is perfect for ranks in the army, as >>290644 and >>290700 show.

Viceroy

>>284810

I like the biblical Avimelech,if only because of the implication that he boned every woman in the petty kingdom.

Duke
Sapa Inca
Antipope
Plain old "King"

>>286601
Fun fact: Tribune of the Plebs was such an important position that some patricians had themselves adopted by plebeian families just so they can run for that office.

>>290828
Antipope is the most metal title around

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>>284810
Commander of the faithful

>>284810
Consul
Duke
Tribune

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>>284810
Joseph-Desiré Mobutu

"Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Zabanga"
>"the all-powerful warrior who because of his endurance and inflexible will to win will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake."

>>288368
Based. There's a reserved magnanimity that it communicates that isn't captured by other titles

Rex Regum

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>>284810

1, Rex
2. Baron
3. Imperator
4. Shahanshah
5. Despot

Though it's someone's name + title, Mansa Musa has a lovely ring to it

>>290816

Wouldn't Avimelech be Hebrew for "Father-king"?

>>284810
Genghis Khan

>>284810
Shalashashka

>>289719
>Kwisatz Haderach
You forgot Padishah Emperor
but Khagan is pretty awesome
also, no Chinggis Khaan

>>286873

Did Visigoths wear puttees?

That seems odd.

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>>286573
Why is medieval Greek so good?

K A I S E R
A
I
S
E
R

also Reichsritter, a knight of the HRE

>>284810
Defender of the Faith

>>291463

>H
>R
>E

Halife

;_;

Why has no one posted Chancellor yet?!

Or suzerain. Not an often used word but it's nice to pepper in here and there referring to Medieval and Ancient times.

>>291559
Go die in a hole Voltaire, fucking frog faggot
>Holy
Pretty much whenever the pope approved of the emperor and it was a sort of defender of christendom
>Roman
It was meant to include Rome and be the sucessor to the Roman empire
Later the of German Nation was added
>Empire
The German Reich doesn't mean the same as that

Supreme allied commander

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>>291642
>Being this mad about a "Holy" "Roman" "Empire"

Generalissimo

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Voivode

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>>284810
"Lord High Executioner."

>>284810
Lord Protector
Kaiser
Tsar even though its the same thing
Shah
il Duce
Anything shouted loud and aggressively in German

>>284810
Caliph
Basileus
Tianzi
Khagan
Consul

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>>291463
>>284810
Ritter
>tfw it's my surname
Feels fucking good
>there you go Hiroshima, you can stop datamining now

>>290852
Good ol' Publius Clodius Pulcher.

Also,
Grandmaster / Hochmeister

Grand Inquisitor

Commisar
Consul

>>292257
Noice, are you descended from nobility by any chance?

Lehnsherr

>>292570
No idea.
I've traced it back to a guy born in 1799 in I think Vermont or new York, definitely new England. It would be really cool if he was the son of some young Hessian captain that fought against us in the revolution, but then settled down and had a family, but I couldn't tell you.
I've learned a good amount about the time period and he could have come over at any time.
I really wanted to trace him back to Germany though (I'm 420% Aryan nordig brussian andsesdry :D), or maybe he was Austrian, I don't know. I assume at some point the family were actual Ritters, nobility was still very influential at that time, maybe they did some serious knight in shining armor ass kicking, maybe they were just chill nobles, either way I think it's an awesome name.
Probably gonna get a tattoo of some gay sword or helmet or something. I've considered rîter (old high German) on my arm or something.

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>>284810
Shahanshah looks like something Dale would say

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>>284810
Imperator!

>>288139
ORDEEEERS!

>>292671

I laughed heartily.

>>284810

not my actual favorites but I feel that byzantines are underrepresented here, so I post my favorite byzantine titles:

Autokrator
Anthypatos
Exarchos
Spatharokoubikoularios (just for the length lol)
and of course
Strategos

y the Grace of God, King and Queen of England, Spain, France, Jerusalem, both the Sicilies and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archduke and Archduchess of Austria, Duke and Duchess of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Count and Countess of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol

By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India

By the Grace of God and the Constitutions of the Republic, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of Rhine, Mediator of the Helvetic Confederation

>>292632
>tfw my uncle traced back the family's ancestry to about 500 years back
>tfw no noble blood
pleb lyfe yo

>>286672

STRATEGOS?!

>>294751
Great Britain?
They keep the best records, I've gotten really far with my mom's maiden name, some tiny little village in Bavaria, all the work was done for me though, maybe I'll visit some day and find some more records I can use there though.
I've "traced my family back" to some English nobles to, but I didn't actually do any work (it's already mapped out on ancestry.com with dubious citations) but I don't know how well I can trust it.
I've found some pretty well documented stuff and I'm the 10 great grandson (something like that) of some people who served in the Vermont militia in the revolution, I'm going to join this "sons of the American revolution" club that's been around for a couple hundred years.
Ancestry is fun