The title Emperor of the Romans was a title used by medieval and modern claimants to the position of Roman emperor. Ancient Roman emperors had only used the title Imperator (Emperor) and Augustus ("venerable") without specification because in their time there (usually) was only a single emperor.
the German Holy Roman Emperors, used the title Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) from 800 to 1806.
the Byzantine Emperors, direct heirs of the ancient Roman emperors, used the title basileus ton Romaion (Emperor of the Romans) in response to the Holy Roman usage, from 812 until the end of their empire in 1453.
the Latin Emperors, who controlled Constantinople from 1204 to 1261, occasionally used the title.
some rulers of Bulgaria, such as Simeon I and Kaloyan, used the title "Emperor of the Bulgarians and the Romans".
the Serbian Emperors titled themselves as "Emperor of the Serbs and Romans" from 1346 to 1371.
Topics referred to by the same term
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Emperor of the Romans. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
and 26 Related for: Emperor of the Romans information
The Holy RomanEmperor, originally and officially theEmperoroftheRomans (Latin: Imperator Romanorum, German: Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages...
the standard imperial formula ofthe Byzantine ruler was "[Emperor's name] in Christ, Emperor and Autocrat oftheRomans" (cf. Ῥωμαῖοι and Rûm). Dynasties...
King oftheRomans (Latin: Rex Romanorum; German: König der Römer) was the title used by the king of East Francia following his election by the princes...
("Elected EmperoroftheRomans") after their and coronation as German king. Before being crowned emperor by the pope, a monarch first had to win the support...
("august emperor"), but he used imperator Romanorum ("emperoroftheRomans") after his conquest of Bari in 871, which led to poor relations with the Eastern...
Italian: Federico I), was the Holy RomanEmperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March...
autokrator of Serbia and Romania ["the land oftheRomans"] in Greek. This title was soon enlarged into "Emperor and Autocrat ofthe Serbs and Greeks, the Bulgarians...
as "EmperoroftheRomans" in 800, Otto was crowned emperor in 962 by Pope John XII in Rome. Otto's later years were marked by conflicts with the papacy...
This is a family tree ofRomanemperors, showing only the relationships between theemperors. Theemperors from Augustus to Commodus can be organised into...
Charles the Fat, was theemperorofthe Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. A member ofthe Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis the German...
Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople, justified his assumption ofthe title ofEmperoroftheRomans (Kayser-i Rum) by right of conquest...
historian who lived in Roman times, even embellished the multicultural origin oftheRomans, writing that Romans had since the foundation of Rome welcomed innumerable...
King ofthe Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aquitaine from 781. As the only surviving son of Charlemagne...
The dissolution ofthe Holy Roman Empire occurred de facto on 6 August 1806, when the last Holy RomanEmperor, Francis II ofthe House of Habsburg-Lorraine...
election as King oftheRomans by the prince-electors, two of seven votes, those of Brandenburg and Bohemia, were held by theemperor and his son themselves...
Romanemperor from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41. He was the son oftheRoman general Germanicus and Augustus' granddaughter Agrippina the Elder...
peaceful emperor governing the empire oftheRomans"). The identification as an "emperor governing theRoman Empire" rather than a "Romanemperor" could...
Global Information