DogDayz wrote:
Read this one today;
Blackbeard must have had a very impressive beard to earn that nickname in an era where most men probably had beards.
Necroquote, but there was an early opponent of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation known as "George the Bearded."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George,_Duke_of_Saxony
My teacher always said that when considered next to his fellow rulers Frederick the Wise, Albert the Courageous, and Henry the Pious, "George the Bearded" sounds somewhat unflattering... because they all had beards!