The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales for Twelve Generations


some esteemable marketer of New England Genealogical
Society, or possibly mr evabs himself, when writing
that concise sales pitch, book summary, has penned
"...King Henri IV of France, and King Friedrich I of
Bohemia."

An obvious attempt to make foreign monarchs' names
into local languages, instead of writing them in
English. An attempt to catch a bit authenticity to
their names, in midst of English text... perhaps
trying to attract with exotic.
To that marketer, they are not king Henry IV of France
and Navarre; and Frederick, Elector Palatine, King of
Bohemia.

In my opinion, the version presented as the latter's
name, being there 'King Friedrich I of Bohemia', is
not a successful choice. Everyone who knows something,
knows that Bohemia was not a German-language kingdom,
instead, it chiefly was a Czech-language country, with
some minorities like anyplace. To the Czech, the
estimable Frederick was something like 'king Bedrich'.
(of course he himself came from a part of Germany...
but I suspect that any import of his German name to
his short-lived Bohemian reign was not in the
marketer's mind - it would be like calling certain
monarchs as king Georg I of Great Britain, king Willem
III of England and II of Scotland; and king Wilhelm IV
of Great Britain...)




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