One does not have to be royalty, much less a monarch, to have a numerical suffix! The 19th just means that 18 of his male forebears were named Llewellyn (and apparently living in England). The relatinonship gets a name (junior) only if the two males are father and son; if at least one generation is skipped at the beginning, the junior of the pair is “the second” (II). I’m Adelaide the fourth (IV)!
Llewellyn XIX?
Who were the other 18?
Llewellyn I through Llewellyn XVIII, obviously.
I tried to list them all, but it triggered the spam filter.
Given how long dragons live, Lewellynland’s dynasty might be older than the empire of Japan.
Except he founded the country very recently.
One does not have to be royalty, much less a monarch, to have a numerical suffix! The 19th just means that 18 of his male forebears were named Llewellyn (and apparently living in England). The relatinonship gets a name (junior) only if the two males are father and son; if at least one generation is skipped at the beginning, the junior of the pair is “the second” (II). I’m Adelaide the fourth (IV)!
I affixed “The second” to my name once. I never use it, it’s just there because my grandma had the same name I do.
I don’t use the number either other than in certain conversations (“What an unusual name! how did you come by it?” “It’s a family name, I’m –“.)
Somehow I always assumed that Lewellyn was “Lewellyn the Negative Fourth” or something like that.