From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2020-08-15 11:00:54 +0000, john said:   
      
   > 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   
   me-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   
      
   Thanks. That's exactly the example I read about some months ago and   
   couldn't find again.   
      
      
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