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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, di ...
"the Simple" may refer to:
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Abraham the Poor
Saint Abraham the Poor (also Saint Abraham the Child and Abraham the Simple) was a fourth-century Egyptian hermit and a saint.
Life
Born in the town of Menuf, he became a disciple of Saint Pachomius, who founded cenobitic monasticism, in the Del ...
or the Simple (died 372), Egyptian hermit and saint
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Bagrat II of Iberia
Bagrat II ( ka, ბაგრატ II) (937–994) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and the titular king of Iberia-Kartli from 958 until his death. He was also known as Bagrat Regueni (ბაგრატ რეგუ ...
(937–994), King of (Caucasian) Iberia
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Charles the Simple
Charles III (17 September 879 – 7 October 929), called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin ''Carolus Simplex''), was the king of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the king of Lotharingia from 911 until 919–923. He was a memb ...
(879-929), King of France
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Frederick the Simple
Frederick III (or IV) (1 September 1341 – Messina 27 July 1377Setton, Kenneth M. (1975) " Volume III: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries", Edited by Harry W. Hazzard, page 214.), called the Simple, was King of Sicily from 1355 to 1377. H ...
(1341-1377), King of Sicily
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Paul the Simple
St. Paul the Simple of Egypt (d. ca. 339) was a hermit and disciple of St. Anthony the Great. St. John, the Abbot of Sinai wrote "Paul the Simple was a clear example for us, for he was the rule and type of blessed simplicity." Though contemporari ...
(died c. 339), Christian saint, monk and hermit
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William, Count of Sully
William the Simple ( – c. 1150) was Count of Blois and Count of Chartres from 1102 to 1107, and jure uxoris Count of Sully.
Biography
William was the eldest son of Stephen, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conquero ...
(c. 1085–c. 1150), also Count of Blois and Count of Chartres
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