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The emperors from the founding of the Dominate in 284, in the West until 476 and in the East until 518, can be organised into one large dynasty plus various unrelated emperors. During most of this periods, though not always, there where two senior emperors ruling in separate courts. This division became permanent after the death of Theodosius I ...
George II (Γεώργιος Βʹ) 27 September 1922 – 25 March 1924. 1 year, 160 days. 19 July 1890 Athens, Kingdom of Greece Son of Constantine I of Greece and Sophia of Prussia. Elisabeth of Romania 27 February 1921 Divorced 6 July 1935 (after this reign) No children. 1 April 1947 Athens, Kingdom of Greece Aged 56.
List of Roman emperors. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [ 1] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...
Family tree of the British royal family. House of Tudor Patrimonial/Welsh Lineage. House of Bebbanburgh ealdorman and high-reeve of Bebbanburgh (now Bamburgh) Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk (picture) and Dukes of Norfolk (clickable) de Clare, descendants of Richard I, Duke of Normandy's, Earls of Pembroke, Glamorgan, Hertford and Gloucester, etc.
Modern historians distinguish this later phase of the Roman Empire as Byzantine due to the imperial seat moving from Rome to Byzantium, the Empire's integration of Christianity, and the predominance of Greek instead of Latin. The Byzantine Empire was the direct legal continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire following the division of ...
This is a family tree of all the Eastern Roman Emperors who ruled in Constantinople. Most of the Eastern emperors were related in some form to their predecessors, sometimes by direct descent or by marriage. From the Doukid dynasty (1059) onwards all emperors are related to the same family. Dynasty names are given in capitals so that they can be ...
Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in that it maintained its kingship past the Archaic age. It was even more unusual in that it had two kings simultaneously, who were called the archagetai, [ 1][ n 1] coming from two separate lines. According to tradition, the two lines, the Agiads ( Ἀγιάδαι, Agiadai) and Eurypontids ...
The Julio-Claudian dynasty was the first dynasty of Roman emperors.All emperors of that dynasty descended from Julii Caesares and/or from Claudii.Marriages between descendants of Sextus Julius Caesar and Claudii had occurred from the late stages of the Roman Republic, but the intertwined Julio-Claudian family tree resulted mostly from adoptions and marriages in Imperial Rome's first decades.