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1. The Lion Heart, a king and a crusader :
Canute
Richard I of England
George I
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2. The daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, she was nicknamed 'Bloody Mary' :
Victoria
Mary I of England
Mary II
3. Nicknamed 'Good Queen Bess', 'the Virgin Queen' and also 'Gloriana', she reigned for 44 years :
Elizabeth I of England
Anne Boleyn
Lady Jane Grey
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4. 'The Sun King', King of France and Navarre, reigned for 72 years :
Louis XV
Louis XIII
Louis XIV
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5. His nickname in Russian is 'Groznyi', which literally means 'the awful' :
Vasily IV
Nicholas II
Ivan The Terrible
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6. Nicknamed 'BADINGUET' after he escaped from the Ham Fortress, dressed in the clothes of Badinguet, a worker at the fortress :
Napoléon I
Napoléon III
Louis XVIII
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7. He was poisoned by Countess Mahaut d'Artois in 1316 :
Philip IV 'The Fair'
John I 'The Posthumous'
Louis X 'The Quarrelsome'
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8. He was also nicknamed 'The Victorious'. He reigned over France from 1422 to 1461 :
Charles VII 'The Well-Served'
Charles VI 'The Mad'
Charles V 'The Wise'
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9. Nicknamed 'Louis The Last', 'Capet', and 'Uncle Louis', he aimed to earn the love of the people of France, but failed :
Louis XVI
Louis XIV
Louis IX
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10. He was nicknamed 'The Beloved'. He reigned over France from 1715 to 1774 ;
Louis XIV
Charles VII
Louis XV
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