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The Beautiful
The Beautiful is an epithet given to: People: *Helen II of Croatia (died c. 1091), Queen of Croatia *John II Komnenos (1087–1143), Byzantine Emperor Fictional or mythological characters: *Ara the Beautiful, legendary Armenian hero *Vasilisa the Beautiful, heroine of a Russian folk tale See also *List of people known as the Handsome *List of people known as the Fair The Fair is an epithet that may refer to: People: *Charles IV of France (1294–1328), King of France and of Navarre, Count of Champagne *Demetrius the Fair (around 285 BC-249 BC or 250 BC), Hellenistic King of Cyrene *Eadwig (941?–959), King o ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Beautiful Lists of people by epithet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epithet
An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Pallas Athena, Phoebus Apollo, Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Władysław I the Elbow-high. Many English monarchs have traditional epithets: some of the best known are Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Richard the Lionheart, Æthelred the Unready, John Lackland and Bloody Mary. The word ''epithet'' can also refer to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrase. This use as a euphemism is criticized by Martin Manser and other proponents of linguistic prescription. H. W. Fowler complained that "epithet is suffering a vulgarization that is giving it an abusive imputation." Linguistics Epithets are sometimes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen II Of Croatia
Helen of Hungary, also known as Helen the Fair ( hr, Jelena Lijepa; hu, Ilona) (d. 1091), was a queen consort of Croatia. Family Helen was born as a Hungarian princess and was the daughter of Árpád dynasty's king Bela I, sister to Ladislaus I of Hungary, granddaughter of Polish king Mieszko II Lambert. Marriage Helen became queen of Croatia during her marriage with Croatian king Demetrius Zvonimir, a distant relative whom she married in 1063. They had a son named Radovan, who died in his late teens or early twenties, and daughters named Claudia and Vinica. Helen had excellent family connections, being an aunt to Irene, the mother of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. Helen was very popular with the Croats, and they often called her ''Jelena Lijepa'' ("Helen the Beautiful"). She is thought to have been an influential consort. Upon the death of Zvonimir, Helen was said to have been quietly plotting the inheritance of the Croatian Crown for her brother, the King o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John II Komnenos
John II Komnenos or Comnenus ( gr, Ἱωάννης ὁ Κομνηνός, Iōannēs ho Komnēnos; 13 September 1087 – 8 April 1143) was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as "John the Beautiful" or "John the Good" (), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina and the second emperor to rule during the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire. As he was born to a reigning emperor, he had the status of a . John was a pious and dedicated monarch who was determined to undo the damage his empire had suffered following the Battle of Manzikert, half a century earlier. John has been assessed as the greatest of the Komnenian emperors. In the course of the quarter-century of his reign, John made alliances with the Holy Roman Empire in the west, decisively defeated the Pechenegs, Hungarians and Serbs in the Balkans, and personally led numerous campaigns against the Turks in Asia Minor. John's campaigns fundamentally changed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ara The Beautiful
Ara the Handsome ( hy, Արա Գեղեցիկ ''Ara Gełec‘ik'') is a semi-legendary Armenian hero and king. Ara is notable in Armenian literature for the popular legend in which he was so handsome that the Assyrian queen Semiramis waged war against Armenia to capture him and bring him back to her, alive. Ara is sometimes associated Arame of Urartu, who ruled the Kingdom of Urartu Biainili during the 9th century BC. Genealogy In Movses Khorenatsi's ''History of Armenia'', Ara the Handsome is presented as the son of Aram and a descendant of Hayk, the legendary forefather of the Armenians. Khorenatsi writes that Ara the Handsome had a son, also named Ara, by his wife, Nuard (Nvard). Ara, son of Ara, who was twelve years old at the time of his father's death, was appointed ruler of Armenia by Semiramis and later died in a war against her. Legend According to the legend, Semiramis (''Shamiram'' in Armenian) had fallen in love with the handsome Armenian King and asked him to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasilisa The Beautiful
Vasilisa the Beautiful (russian: Василиса Прекрасная) or Vasilisa the Fair is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''. Synopsis By his first wife, a merchant had a single daughter, who was known as Vasilisa the Beautiful. When the girl was eight years old, her mother died; when it became clear that she was dying, she called Vasilisa to her bedside, where she gave Vasilisa a tiny, wooden, one-of-a-kind doll talisman (a Motanka doll), with explicit instructions; Vasilisa must ''always'' keep the doll somewhere on her person and never allow anyone (not even her father) to see it or even know of its existence; whenever Vasilisa should find herself in need of help, whenever overcoming evil, obstacles, or just be in need of advice or just some comfort, all that she needs to do is to offer it a little to eat and a little to drink, and then, whatever Vasilisa's need, it would help her. Once her mother had died, Vasilisa offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People Known As The Handsome
The epithet the Handsome may refer to: * Demetrius the Fair (c. 285 BC–249 BC), King of Cyrene * Ferdinand I of Portugal (1345–1383), King of Portugal and the Algarve * Frederick the Fair (c. 1289–1330), King of Germany and Duke of Austria and Styria * Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113–1151), Duke of Normandy * Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480–1504) * Philip I of Castile (1478–1506), first Habsburg King of Castile * Radu the Handsome (1435–1475), Prince of Wallachia and younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (better known as Vlad the Impaler) * Ara the Handsome, legendary Armenian hero See also * List of people known as the Beautiful * List of people known as the Fair The Fair is an epithet that may refer to: People: *Charles IV of France (1294–1328), King of France and of Navarre, Count of Champagne *Demetrius the Fair (around 285 BC-249 BC or 250 BC), Hellenistic King of Cyrene *Eadwig (941?–959), King o ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People Known As The Fair
The Fair is an epithet that may refer to: People: *Charles IV of France (1294–1328), King of France and of Navarre, Count of Champagne *Demetrius the Fair (around 285 BC-249 BC or 250 BC), Hellenistic King of Cyrene *Eadwig (941?–959), King of England *Edith the Fair (c. 1025–c. 1086), first wife of King Harold II of England *Ewald the Fair, one of the Two Ewalds, saint and martyr in Old Saxony about 692 *Frederick the Fair (c. 1289–1330), Duke of Austria and Styria as Frederick I, King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1314 (anti-king until 1325) as Frederick III *Hasdrubal the Fair (c. 270–221 BC), Carthaginian military leader *Helena of Hungary, Queen of Croatia (died 1091) *Helga the Fair, 11th century woman said to have been the most beautiful in Iceland * Louis I of Brzeg (c. 1321–1398), Duke and regent of Legnica, Duke of Brzeg * Philip IV of France (1268–1314), King of France *Philip I of Castile, (1478–1503), King of Castile and Duke of Burgundy *Radu ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
