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acting,

as a dead body:
Edward the
CARESSER

comedic:
Eleanor the
WITTY

adultery, alleged:
Anne the
GREAT WHORE
, Alexander the
WOLF OF BADENOCH

adventure stories, composition of:
GOOD KING REN
É

almsgiving, excessive:
Philaretos the
MERCIFUL

apostasy:
Haakon the
GOOD

archbishop,

cruel:
Christian the
TYRANT

sewn up in bearskin:
Ivan the
TERRIBLE

short-sighted:
James the
THISTLE

strong-willed:
Erik the
MEEK

armour,

constantly worn under clothing:
John the
FEARLESS
; Edmund
IRONSIDE

doffed to one side in battle:
Haakon the
GOOD
; Magnus the
GOOD

arms, long:
STRONGBOW

astrological sign, nickname after:
Louis the
JUST

atheism:
Philip the
GODLESS REGENT

babies, slaughtered:
Ivar the
BONELESS
, Vlad the
IMPALER
, Lady Wu the
POISONER

bakeries, secret:
Theodosius the
GREAT

banquet, murder arranged at:
Otto the
BLOODY
, James the
GROSS

baptism,

mass:
Clovis the
GREAT

under duress:
Erik the
SAINT

barrenness (supposed):
the
BAKER AND THE BAKER
’S
WIFE

bear, strangled:
Arthgal the
BEAR

beards,

impressive:
BARBAROSSA
, Alfonso the
CONQUEROR
; Boleslav the
CURLY
, Sven
FORKBEARD

punishment for sporting:
Nicholas the
IRON TSAR

taxation of:
Peter the
GREAT

beer, love of:
Christopher the King of Bark

belching:
Philip the Amorous

bells,

melted and poured down throats of enemies:
Peter the
CEREMONIOUS

ringing of:
Fyodor the
BELLRINGER

rung in jubilation at death:
Mehmed the
CONQUEROR

bigamy:
Philip the
AMOROUS
, Joan the
FAIR MAID OF KENT

bishops,

arrested:
Christian the
FATHER OF HIS PEOPLE

belligerent:
Magnus the
LAW-MENDER

burned at the stake:
BLOODY MARY

massacred:
Erik the
MEMORABLE
, Christian the
TYRANT

blood,

alleged drinking of children’s:
Louis the
UNIVERSAL SPIDER

bathing in virgins’:
Elizabeth the
BLOOD COUNTESS

board games, book on:
Alfonso the
ASTRONOMER

bog, death in:
MAGNUS BARELEGS

books,

biblical,

Job:
Philaretos the
MERCIFUL

Kings:
Edward the
JOSIAH OF ENGLAND

collecting:
GOOD DUKE HUMPHREY
; Akbar the
GREAT
, Catherine the
GREAT

correcting mistakes in:
Charles the
GREAT

kissing of:
Malcolm
BIGHEAD

reprinting of banned:
Philip the
GODLESS REGENT

bowls, love of playing:
Charles the
MERRY MONARCH

bread, bark baked in:
Christopher the
KING OF BARK

broom:
see
flowers

burial, messy:
QUEEN VENUS

cake:
the
BAKER AND THE BAKER
’S
WIFE
, Alfred the
GREAT

card games, love of playing:
David the
MERRY MONARCH

cardinal,

demotion from pope to:
Amadeus the
PACIFIC

laughed at:
Christina the
MIRACLE OF NATURE

cauldron, enemies boiled alive in:
Vlad the
IMPALER
, Ivan the
TERRIBLE

cavalry charge:
Rupert the
MAD CAVALIER

celibacy,

alleged:
Henry the
NAVIGATOR

vow of:
Malcolm the
MAIDEN

champagne:
CLICQUOT

changeling, alleged:
John the
POSTHUMOUS
, Mary the
QUEEN OF TEARS
, James the
WARMING-PAN BABY

chastity police:
Maria the
MOTHER OF HER COUNTRY

chess, death while preparing to play:
Ivan the
TERRIBLE

clergy, corrupt:
Charles the
BEWITCHED

clogs, manufacture of:
Philip the
GOOD

cloth, magic:
Waldemar the
VICTORIOUS

cockfighting, love of:
Haroun the
JUST

coffee:
Kamehameha the
GREAT

coffin, sliced open:
Casimir the
GREAT

comb,

loss of:
Aud the
DEEP-MINDED

unused:
Harold
FAIRHAIR

cook, roasted:
Wenceslas the
WORTHLESS

coronation,

by self:
Peter the
CEREMONIOUS

indecent behaviour at:
Edwy the
FAIR

corpse, of another,