Holy Roman Empire? Tryhards. Byzantium? Bunch of posers.
The truth is this: Rome never ended, she just went North. It would explain the Norsemen and their keenness to reconquer Gaul and Britain.
The truth is this: Rome never ended, she just went North. It would explain the Norsemen and their keenness to reconquer Gaul and Britain.
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(As this is the internet I have to mention that this is indeed a joke and not even a very good one)
Though through weird buying shenanigans they do have the title of Kings of Jerusalem, they conquered Naples after they had bought the title to the last heir of the kingdom.
Honestly kingdom titles being bought all over medieval europe is kinda hilarious. After centuries of bragging it was god given, you end up with a dude waving a paper saying you can be king by buying it off him.
Like the original selling people a star that is now popular online, a proto nft having the receipt of a kingdom
However unlike most other usurpers throughout Roman history he did not march to Constantinople to depose Irene and therefore both empires coexisted for the 700 years or so. HRE (it was just called the Roman Empire, the word holy was only added in the high middle ages) was not a successor to the Western Roman Empire. That wouldn't really make any sense, since the Roman had already reconquered Italy (and the lost most of it) after the Western Empire had fallen (Rome itself was still formally a part of the (eastern)Empire at the time of Charlemagne.
And then, the second Emperor of Russia married a Byzantine princess, taking the title of Caesar (Tsar).
Basically, every empire even close to Europe is Rome.
When did Rome die? When the capital was moved from Rome.
Do you consider end of the Roman Empire to be 286CE? That's when the capital was moved from Rome to Mediolanum (Milan).