Infobox Monarch
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.
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{{Infobox monarch | name = | title = | image = | caption = | reign = | coronation = | investiture = | full name = | native_lang1 = | native_lang1_name1 = | native_lang2 = | native_lang2_name1 = | othertitles = | baptism = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = | 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 = | signature = }} 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
Other titles & wikilink, etc. - baptism
- date
- birth_date
- if alive:
{{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} - if dead:
{{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} - birth_place
- Name & wikilink
- death_date
{{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}}(death date then birth)- death_place
- Name & wikilink
- burial_date
- D Month, YYYY
- burial_place
- Name & wikilink
{{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
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 | |
 | |
| រជ្ជកាល | 14 January 1972 – present (52 years) |
| រាជ្យមុន | Frederick IX |
| បុត្រ | Frederik, Joachim |
| វង្ស | House of Glücksburg |
| បិតា | Frederick IX |
| មាតា | Ingrid of Sweden |
| ប្រសូត | 16 April 1940 Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen |
{{Infobox monarch | name = Margrethe II | title = Queen of Denmark | image = Queen Magrethe sep 7 2005.png | reign = 14 January 1972 – present
({{age|1972|1|14}} years) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|4|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[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
(''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
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Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{Birth date}}, {{Birth date and age}}, or {{Birth-date}} are used in the infobox. (but do not use these if the date is before 1583).
To include a URL, use {{URL}}
hCard uses HTML classes including:
- adr
- agent
- bday
- category
- country-name
- extended-address
- family-name
- fn (required)
- given-name
- honorific-prefix
- honorific-suffix
- label
- locality
- n
- nickname
- note
- org
- role
- url
Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.