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{{trope}}
Often, if a work wants to portray a decaying or at least very old kingdom with entrenched rulers, they will have a leader who has a number,<ref>called an ordinal</ref>
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== Comic Books ==
* The ruler of Syldavia in the [[Tintin]] story ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' was King Muskar XII.
== Fan
* Played straight in the ''[[Gene Catlow]]'' fanfic ''The Basalt City Chronicles'', in which Priest-Emperor Zaykar Kh'Naral is the 24th of that name. His grandfather was Rraghan Kh'Naral CDLXVII (The 467th). It's said that their dynasty reaches back into prehistoric times.
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* [[Ursula K. Le Guin|Ursula K. Le Guin's]] ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' has Argaven XV of Karhide, latest of a dynasty that has lasted 700 years or so. There were a lot of kings before them, though.
** In the short story ''Winter's King'' all the kings of Karhide who aren't called Argaven are called Emran. King Argaven XVII {{spoiler|commits to taking back the throne}} when she finds out that the corrupt Emran, {{spoiler|Argaven's child who is now older than her because Argaven has been off-planet and been affected by time dilation}}, has chosen an heir with neither of the traditional names. {{spoiler|'"The kings of Karhide are called Emran," said Argaven, "and Argaven."'}}
* In [[John Ringo]]'s and [[David Weber]]'s ''Empire of Man'' (aka [[Prince Roger]]) space opera series, the 500-year-old dynasty has had ten Emperors and nine Empresses. All but two of the Empresses have been named
* [[Cordwainer Smith]]'s ''Norstrilia'' had Roderick [[Mc Ban]] CLI.
* In the Worldwar/Colonization series by [[Harry Turtledove]], the Race is governed by a 50,000 year old imperial dynasty headed by the Ssumaz family. The current emperor is "37th Emperor Risson".
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* Variation in ''[[Codex Alera]]''. The First Lord is Gaius Sextus and the deceased heir was Gaius Septimus, meaning the First Lord is Gaius the 6th and the deceased heir is Gaius the 7th. This becomes a plot point in determining the next heir to the crown {{spoiler|Tavi is short for Octavian, aka Gaius the 8th.}}
* [[Rafik Schami]]'s fictional city of Morgana is technically a democracy with an elected president but practically always ruled by a member of the family Hadahek (a very large and costantly feuding family). At first, the presidents were numbered (President Hadahek LIII) but people soon got fed up with the increasing numbers, and added adjectives intead (President Hadahek the Brave) until they ran out of adjectives. Currently they name their presidents according to their hobbies (President Hadahek the Toy-Collector)
* Parodied in ''Verhalen van de tweelingbroers'' by Tonke Dragt, when one of the main characters [[It Makes Sense in Context|suddenly becomes King of Tirania]], he has, despite being named Laurenzo, to adopt the name of Sutan the 467th,<ref>which is usually not even abbreviated, but written as ''Sutan the Fourhundredsixtyseventh''</ref>
* In the ''[[Belgariad]]'' novels, the ruler of Tolnedra is always referred to as Ran [House] [Number] of the [Number] [House] Dynasty (If a given Emperor died without male issue, a different noble house would start a new dynasty rather than passing the throne to a brother, nephew or cousin of the previous emperor, with the throne often returning to a house that had held the throne at some other point in history). Arguably subverted when General Varana of House Anadile was adopted as the son of Ran Borune XXIII and took the throne as Ran Borune XXIV instead of Ran Anadile I.
* The Kings of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' do this, sometimes more formally as "the Nth of his name." Since the books are set at the beginning of a new dynasty that comes from a different naming culture than the founding dynasty, most of the kings we actually see are only the first of their name, but the previous Targaryen dynasty had racked up five Aegons, two Viseryses, two Jaeheryses, and two Aeryses.
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