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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief
The English really didn't give their monarch post death monarchial names. Particularly after the Norman conquest. Most of the descriptive names we have for them were used in their lifetime: Longshanks, Rufus, Lackland, Cour de Lion, etc.
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Longshanks was post Norman conquest and Alfred was prior (9th Century), there is also Cnut the Great (prior to 1066)..