List of Emperors of the Levantines: Difference between revisions

The Conine Dynasty forged the Holy Levantine Empire from the Gaelic kingdoms of Gallawa, uniting the latter in the 7th century and conquering enough land in Levantia to reclaim the Imperial legacy of Great Levantia in 761 AD. The Conine Emperors continued the practice common among the kings of Gallawa, dividing ones Kingdom among one's sons. This practice lead to the division of the Empire among Emperor Brian III's three sons in 917, creating the Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines under King Culmann, the Southern Kingdom of the Levantines under King Charles, and the Western Kingdom of the Levantines under King Aemon. The Conine Dynasty was the most predominantly Gaelic Imperial dynasty; their successors would be more Latinic in character.

|'''Leo I'''<small>25 December 965-</small><small>4 February 975</small>

== Julio-Yustona Dynasty ==

In 1014, Archduke Adrian IV of the Archduchy of Urceopolis was elected Emperor, becoming the first, though by no means the last, relative of St. Julius I to be elected Emperor.

Grand Duke of Yustona

Following the reign of Emperor Adrian, the Collegial Electorate selected Leo Galen, Duke of San Gomaina, who established the Luciusian dynasty. The Luciusians managed to become the first family in the electoral era to maintain a father-to-son succession on the Imperial throne, creating an environment of dominance that lasted for 101 years. Their reign was notable for the initiation of the Crusades in Sarpedon, in [[1095]]. One of the first to answer the call to arms was Emperor Carles II, whose recruiting and campaigning efforts resulted in his canonization and veneration as a Catholic saint in [[1297]]. Carles also played a key role in ensuring the Kingdom of Culfra remained within the Empire and granted the Golden Bull of 1098, establishing modern [[Urcea]].

== Ju<span id="Julio-Aleckán_Dynasty"></span>lio-Aleckán Dynasty ==

The electors next turned to King Niall III of Urcea, in the second year of his reign. Niall was the first Apostolic King of Urcea to sit on the Imperial throne, though his distant cousin, Archduke Adrian, held the Imperial dignity in the 11th century. The Collegial Electorate was prepared to elect Niall's son Donnchad, but he was deposed in the opening stages of the Saint's War.

The Jazonid Dynasty, a family of Gassavelian that had acquired the Duchy of Eagaria in the 1200s, took the Imperial Throne in 1387 due to the previous dynastic losses of the Great Plague. By far, it had the longest continuous reign over the Empire and was only surpassed by the House de Weluta in total years on the Imperial throne in the period following the Great War. The dynastic strength of the Jazonids provided a period of stability for the Empire, but the beginning of the Protestant Reformation as well as economic factors lead to The Anarchy, which historians agree began in 1509 with the beginning of the reign of the last Jazonid Emperor, Louis VIII. The Jazonids suddenly died out in 1524 due to a mass assassination, causing the Empire to descend into chaos.

== Gracchusian Dynasty ==

Following his election as Emperor, August I, immediately declared war on Kiravia, igniting the War of Faskano Strait. August I had assumed the aid of the empire in his bid to expand the Burgundian Empire and crushing of Kiravian interests in Æonara. The remainder of the empire refused as they wanted to focus on the internal issues of rising ethno-nationalism, socialism, and self-determinationism that were plaguing the kingdoms ofDericania, and Culfra. In a bid to win back favor he mediated the end of the Anivanian civil war, but the negotiations soon turned against him and a republican government was secured. He attempted to intervene on the side of Grand Duke but made the situation worse as it was received as the Imperial court not respecting the will of the people. Furthermore, Burgundian military administration of the Legatation of Ankivara was seeming less and less "of the Empire" and more like they were angling to create a fiefdom of their own. The electors were nonplussed by Burgundie's ambitions and the usage of the imperial throne to get them but August balanced these foreign excursions with a wide political birth for the electors which they initially enjoyed. In 1916, with the utter defeat of the Burgundian "match stick" navy in the War of Faskano Strait, confidence in August plummeted. He attempted to redeem himself by focusing on his reunification measures, but his attempts to bring together the empire through imperial subsidies for local improvements was seen as too little too late. It was however during this time that major rail links were made across the empire, that rail gauges were standardized, that telegraph wires were strung between all major cities, and that publicly provided commercial power become available in southern Levantia.

With the Empire's spiraling collapse, the Collegial Electorate took a step that would have been unimaginable a century earlier and elected the Apostolic King of Urcea, James VI, in 1920. By coopting the power and authority of Urcea, the Electors hoped to use its resources to help stabilize the Empire. Urcea fought on the Empire's behalf during the Great War, but in 1935 King Brian IV relinquished authority to rule outside Urcea but did not abdicate the title of Emperor of the Levantines. The Treaty of Corcra acknowledged the right of Brian and any of his successors to continue to use the title Emperor of the Levantines, which they do through the present day. Emperor Brian VIII was the last Emperor elected by the Collegial Electorate.

|'''James III'''<small>8 February 1920-</small><small>2 October 1929</small>

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