From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 15/08/2020 12:15, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > This is not really a question about British genealogy, as in Britain   
   >  suffixes like Jr. are far less common than in the USA. However,   
   > someone here may know. There was a discussion recently in another   
   > group (alt.usage.english) about how far the III, IV ... can go in   
   > practice. I read somewhere that there was someone in an Austrian or   
   > German aristocratic family whose suffix was  XV. Any pointers to who   
   > that is? I'm not thinking of Kings, Popes etc., for whom they can go   
   > as high as XXIII, but of families in which the suffixes are actually   
   > treated as part of the full name.   
   >    
   > Actually it would quite convenient if they _were_ used more in   
   > British families. My paternal great-great-greatgrandfather was   
   > Ambrose Bowden; his father was Ambrose Bowden, whose father was   
   > Ambrose Bowden, whose father was Ambrose Bowden. One can of course   
   > add one's own suffixes when compiling family records, but I'm   
   > thinking of cases where the people concerned use(d) them as part of   
   > their names.   
   >    
   >    
      
   There is an interesting discussion   
   https://ask.metafilter.com/254969/The-same-as-my-father-before-m   
   -and-his-father-before-him-and    
   (or https://tinyurl.com/y3vyfb4f)   
   which includes Prince Heinrich LXVII is the son of Prince Heinrich LXII    
   and the father of Prince Heinrich XIV. "The House of Reuss practises an    
   unusual system of naming and numbering the male members of the family..."   
      
   Heinrich XXXIX Prinz Reuss zu Köstritz   
   http://www.thepeerage.com/p11135.htm#i111341   
      
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