Chapter Kilderkin to King of K by Brewer's Readers Handbook

The Summer King, Amadeus of Spain.

The Winter King, Frederick V., who married Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I. (See Winter King.)

The White King. The ancient kings of Muscovy were so called from the white robe which they used to wear. Solomon wore a white robe; hence our Lord, speaking of the lilies of the field says that “Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” (Luke xii. 27).

Principem Moscoviæ Album Regem nuncupant.… Credo ut Persam nunc propter rubea tegumenta capitis Rubeum Caput vocant, ita reges Moscoviæ, propter alba tegumenta Albos Reges appellari.—Sigismund.

(Another explanation may be suggested: Muscovy was called “White Russia,” as Poland was called “Black Russia.” See White King and White Queen.)

King (Tom), “the choice spirit of the day for a quiz, a hoax, a joke, a jest, a song, a dance, a race, or a row. A jolly dog, a rare blood, prime buck, rum soul, and funny fellow.” He drives M. Morbleu, a French barber, living in the Seven Dials, London almost out of his senses by inquiring over and over again for Mr. Thompson.—Moncrieff: Mon. Tonson.

(There is a Mon. Tonson by Taylor, 1767.)

King (surnamed the Affable), Charles VIII. of France (1470, 1483–1498).

King (surnamed the Amorous), Philippe I. of France (1052, 1060–1108).

King (surnamed Augustus), Philippe II. of France. So called because he was born in August (1165, 1180–1223).
Sigismund II. of Poland; born in the month of August (1520, 1548–1572).

King (surnamed the Avenger), Alphonse XI. of Leon and Castile (1310, 1327–1350).

King (surnamed the Bad), Charles II. of Navarre (1332, 1349–1387).

William I. of the Two Sicilies (*, 1154–1166).

King (surnamed the Bald), Charles I. le Chauve, of France (1823, 875-877).

King (surnamed the Barbarossa or Red Beard), Frederick II. of Germany (1121, 1152–1190).

King surnamed Battler), Alphonso I. of Aragon (*, 1104–1135).

King (surnamed the Bearded), Baldwin IV. earl of Flanders, The Handsome Beard (1160–1186).

Constantine IV., Pogonatus, emperor of Rome (648, 668-685).

King (surnamed Beauclerk), Henry I. of England (1068, 1100–1135).

King (surnamed the Bellicose), Henri II. le Belliqueux (1519, 1547–1559).

King (surnamed the Black), Heinrich III. of Germany (1017, 1046–1056).

King (surnamed the Bold), Boleslaus II. of Poland (1042, 1058–1090).

King (surnamed Bomba), Ferdinand II. of the Two Sicilies (1751, 1759–1825). Francis II. Bomalino (1860).

King (surnamed the Brave), Alphonso VI. of Leon and Castile (1030, 1065–1109).