If it's 'after the battle', it'd have to be a very old battle, one that would predate the current version of English by centuries at least. Unless they named it afterwards, possibly related to Ragnarok? Of course, 'after the battle' as a name synonymous to 'Holy Calendar' the way the Japanese sites cited it is majorly weird, and I join you in not trusting Wikipedia.
You have a point there. I guess they might have counted the Anglo-Saxon kings if they wanted/needed to show how their bloodlines pwn everybody else (the Japanese Imperial Family does this), and maybe, like you said, it's the infighting. The Jin dynasty went through 14 Emperors in scarcely a century, and their family lines seemed less hilariously convoluted than what the Britannia family is right now, at least judging from how cutthroat the Emperor is. Replace the War of the Roses with the War of the Eight Princes, anyone? Could actually have something to do with why they use this current Royal Family system, too, with everyone standing up neatly in line so people can't stand up and claim the throne so easily when someone's been murdered. I'm pretty sure that they didn't grant Prince/Princess titles so haphazardly in the Elizabethan era.
The Kururugi clan seemed to be old, too, which fits the bar nicely. And Suzaku told...Yuffie, IIRC?...that his father had to die in that war, and though I got the impression that he did ritual suicide at first, it sounded more like he had to die in the war. So there's circumstantial evidence, at least.
I actually like your idea. :D Say, is it possible that whatever 'deal' the Emperor was proposing by throwing Lelouch in the Kururugi residence was just a front for Ashford/James Bond 007/Generic Spyman to plant a basis for the conquest? Similiar to the hostage idea. It might explain how Lelouch is not all too appreciative of the Ashfords shielding him. (Watch canon obliterate this theory in two or three weeks)
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You have a point there. I guess they might have counted the Anglo-Saxon kings if they wanted/needed to show how their bloodlines pwn everybody else (the Japanese Imperial Family does this), and maybe, like you said, it's the infighting. The Jin dynasty went through 14 Emperors in scarcely a century, and their family lines seemed less hilariously convoluted than what the Britannia family is right now, at least judging from how cutthroat the Emperor is. Replace the War of the Roses with the War of the Eight Princes, anyone? Could actually have something to do with why they use this current Royal Family system, too, with everyone standing up neatly in line so people can't stand up and claim the throne so easily when someone's been murdered. I'm pretty sure that they didn't grant Prince/Princess titles so haphazardly in the Elizabethan era.
The Kururugi clan seemed to be old, too, which fits the bar nicely. And Suzaku told...Yuffie, IIRC?...that his father had to die in that war, and though I got the impression that he did ritual suicide at first, it sounded more like he had to die in the war. So there's circumstantial evidence, at least.
I actually like your idea. :D Say, is it possible that whatever 'deal' the Emperor was proposing by throwing Lelouch in the Kururugi residence was just a front for Ashford/James Bond 007/Generic Spyman to plant a basis for the conquest? Similiar to the hostage idea. It might explain how Lelouch is not all too appreciative of the Ashfords shielding him. (Watch canon obliterate this theory in two or three weeks)