How do you pronounce Henry III?

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Any king, pope, emperor or the like where someone has a number (pretty much royalty and popes, though some higher nobles in history do occasionally get a number, usually where they are a duke or something that is not a king but still ruler of an era or subordinate to another emperor or something) in English will be referred to by the ordinal numbers in speech (first, second, third, fourth... after the teens English is at least predictable/follows a pattern, not that much gets up there for this sort of thing).
In some particularly fun cases you can also have multiple numbers if someone is king of one place, duke of another and emperor. In British history James the first of English but sixth of Scotland being James dual numbers (though still ordinal numbers if you want to go full); the act of union would be a while later, no idea what would happen today if one was named that though William 4th skipped to being the third William of Scotland so probably adjust accordingly. It gets more fun if you go for the countries/states that would eventually become Germany, Spanish unification, Habsburgs and Holy Roman Empire where numbers start to pile up a bit. There are also hereditary titles that might reverse the order and be the *th duke of somewhere depending upon how many have gone before.

Slim exception if you are mildly taking the piss out of French kings (there were a couple called Louis) where a pure number shows mild irreverence of some form but that is getting into more advanced level country relations.
 
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