Template:Infobox monarch/doc

Usage

Blank template

{{Infobox monarch
| name               = 
| title              = 
| image              = 
| caption            = 
| reign              = 
| coronation         = 
| investiture        =
| full name          = 
| native_lang1       = 
| native_lang1_name1 = 
| native_lang2       = 
| native_lang2_name1 = 
| othertitles        = 
| baptism            =
| date of birth      = <!-- {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| place of birth     = 
| date of death      = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth) -->
| place of death     = 
| date of burial     = 
| place of burial    = <!-- <br /> {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} -->
| predecessor        = 
| suc-type           = 
| heir               = 
| successor          = 
| queen              = 
| consort            = 
| consortreign       =
| consortto          =
| spouse             = 
| spouse 1           = 
| spouse 2           = 
| offspring          = 
| royal house        = 
| dynasty            = 
| royal anthem       = 
| royal motto        =
| father             = 
| mother             = 
| children           =
| religion           =
}}

Parameters

name

Name (in most common usage)

title

King/Queen/etc of X

image

[[Image:X.jpg|200px|caption]]

caption

Image caption

reign

D Month, YYYY – D Month, YYYY

coronation

D Month, YYYY

investiture

D Month, YYYY

full name

Full legal non-titular name

native_lang1

label: language name

native_lang1_name1

data: monarch's name in above language

(for different transliterations of native names, useful for Oriental Monarchs, see Songtsen Gampo)

native_lang2

native_lang2_name1

up to native_lang8 and native_lang8_name1

othertitles

Other titles & wikilink <br /> Other titles & wikilink, etc.

baptism

date

date of birth

if alive: {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}}

if dead: {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}

place of birth

Name & wikilink

date of death

{{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth)

place of death

Name & wikilink

date of burial

D Month, YYYY

place of burial

Name & wikilink <br /> {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}}

predecessor

Name & wikilink

suc-type

label: To use the heir field, the type of heir is required (Heir-Apparent / Heir-Presumptive)

heir

data: Name & wikilink

successor

Name & wikilink

queen

consort

consortreign

Name & wikilink (all three labeled as Consort)

consortto

spouse

Name & wikilink (both are labeled as Consort to)

spouse 1

spouse 2

Name & wikilink (numbers 1 through 9, labeled as Wife or Wives) - these are for the wives of male rulers for whom the term 'queen', 'consort' etc. is inappropriate, e.g. the wife of a Roman emperor whom he married and then divorced before ascending the throne

offspring

(or issue) Name & wikilink <br /> Name & wikilink, etc.

royal house

House of X & wikilink

dynasty

X dynasty & wikilink (for those where 'dynasty' and not 'house' is the correct nomenclature e.g. Roman emperors)

royal anthem

Name & wikilink

royal motto

Text

father

Name & wikilink

mother

Name & wikilink

children

Name & wikilink

religion

Name & wikilink

Example

Margrethe II
Queen of Denmark
Reign	14 January 1972 – Present (51 years)
Born	(1940-04-16) 16 April 1940
Birthplace	Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen
Predecessor	Frederick IX
Heir-Apparent	Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
Consort	Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
Offspring	Frederik, Joachim
Royal House	House of Glücksburg
Royal motto	Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke (The Help of God, the Love of the People, the Strength of Denmark)
Father	Frederick IX
Mother	Ingrid of Sweden

{{Infobox monarch
| name = Margrethe II
| title = Queen of Denmark<!--No other titles. Margrethe abolished the rest of her predecessors' titles when she became queen. Besides, most of them could only have been inherited by a male. -->
| image = [[Image:Queen Magrethe sep 7 2005.png|175px]]
| reign = 14 January 1972 – Present<br />({{age|1972|1|14}} years)
| date of birth = {{Birth date and age|1940|4|16|df=yes}}
| place of birth = [[Amalienborg Palace]], [[Copenhagen]]
| predecessor = [[Frederick IX of Denmark|Frederick IX]]
| suc-type = Heir-Apparent
| heir = [[Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark]]
| consort = [[Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark]]
| issue = [[Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark|Frederik]], [[Prince Joachim of Denmark|Joachim]]
| royal house = [[Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|House of Glücksburg]]
| royal motto = Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke<br>(''The Help of God, the Love of the People, the Strength of Denmark'')
| father = [[Frederick IX of Denmark|Frederick IX]]
| mother = [[Ingrid of Sweden]]
}}

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikimedia projects, please see Wikipedia's microformat project.

Sub-templates

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Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

• adr
• agent
• bday
• birthplace
• category
• country-name
• deathdate
• deathplace
• extended-address
• family-name
• fn (required)
• given-name
• honorific-prefix
• honorific-suffix
• label
• locality
• n
• nickname
• note
• org
• role
• url
• vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.

See also

• List of articles using Template:Infobox monarch
• Template:Infobox royalty