The Beautiful is an
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, di ...
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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 Ladisla ...
(died c. 1091), Queen of Croatia
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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 ...
(1087–1143), Byzantine Emperor
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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 agai ...
, legendary Armenian hero
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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, ...
, heroine of a Russian folk tale
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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 o ...
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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 ...
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