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Perhaps the best detail on that Wikipedia page, though, is the fact the names were so silly, James Joyce took the piss
The most spectacular was surely Ralph’s fourth child with his second wife: Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet – whose initials spell out LYONEL THE SECOND
And – well, of course – Lyona Decima Veroica Esyth Undine Cyssa Hylda Rowena Adela Thyra Ursuala Ysabel Blanche Lelias Dysart Plantagenet
And the relatively restrained Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet