Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

REGAL TITLES.

"His most Christian Majesty The King of France."

Stowe says that Charlemagne, being chosen Emperor, A.D. 800, on account of his great zeal for the good of Christendom, was the first King of France that attributed to himself (I rather think received from the Pope) the Style and Title of The Most Christian King of France; and from him his Successors have continued it[177].

His Sacred Majesty The King of Great Britain.

First given to (or rather assumed by) King James I.[178]—Grace was the old Title.—Majesty succeeded to it at the latter end of the Reign of Henry VIII.[179]

His Catholic Majesty.

(Spain.)

About the year 1493, Pope Alexander VI. gave to Ferdinand, King of Spain, the Title of Catholick King, in memory and acknowledgment of the many Victories he had obtained over the Moors[180].