Were there any other words for royal bastards?

Sir, if they happen to become king. One really famous one was William the Conqueror. His mother was the daughter of a tanner of Falaise.

"Fitz" became handed down as part of "ordinary" surnames, and its original meaning fell out of use. Generally in later centuries the bastard child simply took the mother's name. In some (many?) cases, the family was elevated in status by the royal getter of the bastards. Which made him or her, I suppose, a right royal bastard. Many of today's better known aristocratic families started that way ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...