List of Emperors of the Levantines

Conine Dynasty

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 led 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.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Conchobar I14 September 761–3 July 814		9 February 733	3 July 814 aged 81	n/a
Brian I3 July 814–19 January 831		3 January 760	19 January 831 aged 71	n/a
Conchobar II"Purpleborn"19 January 831–30 July 842		5 July 814	30 July 842 aged 28	n/a
Diarmaid"The Short"30 July 842–3 March 844		6 August 834	3 March 844 aged 9	n/a
Brian II3 March 844–9 October 879		10 October 836	9 October 879 aged 42	n/a
Charles I"Séarlas" 9 October 879– 1 May 894		19 June 862	1 May 894 aged 32	n/a
Brian III1 May 894–18 January 917		19 September 863	18 January 917 aged 53	n/a

Leonine Dynasty

In 965, Leo, Eastern King of the Levantines, invaded the Southern Kingdom of the Levantines and was crowned Emperor, beginning the Leonine dynasty. It died out in the 990s, necessitating the establishment of the Collegial Electorate to elect future Emperors.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Leo I25 December 965-4 February 975		17 May 914	4 February 975 aged 61	n/a
Adrian I4 February 975-1 August 983		9 September 936	1 August 983 aged 46	n/a
Brian IV1 August 983-31 December 996		23 October 967	31 December 996 aged 29	n/a

Cornellian Dynasty

In 997, the Collegial Electorate met for the first time and elected Louis, the Duke of Allaria, who was subsequently crowned by the Pope. He was unable to secure election for his son, Vamniticus.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Louis I13 April 997-5 August 1014		17 May 952	5 August 1014 aged 62	Duke of Allaria

Julian 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. He was a member of the House of Harren.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Adrian II5 August 1014-24 November 1036		1 June 976	24 November 1036 aged 60	Archduke of Urceopolis Duke of Harren

Luciusian Dynasty

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 1084. 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.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Leo II February 4, 1036-July 14, 1060		May 4, 1008	July 14, 1060 aged 52	Duke of San Gomaina
Saint Charles II "Carles"July 22, 1060-April 3, 1108		May 23, 1052	April 3, 1108 aged 56	Duke of San Gomaina "lieutenant of God on Earth"
Uc I July, 29 1108 –August 1, 1140		March 23, 1181	November 3, 1140 aged 60	Duke of San Gomaina

Julian 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. These Julians were a member of the House of Aleckán.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Niall I9 August 1203-4 May 1214		3 May 1161	4 May 1214 aged 53	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery

XXX Dynasty

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Uc II 14 January 1349 –1 July 1350		ca. 1290	1 July 1350 aged 60	Duke of XYZ

Jazonid Dynasty

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 led 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.

Gram Felix Dynasty

A relatively unlikely choice, Conchobar, head of the House of Gram Felix and Duke of Anivania, managed to win a close election in the Collegial Electorate in 1540 pledging to restore order in the Holy Levantine Empire during The Anarchy. He prosecuted the Nordmontaine War and led the Empire's forces in the Great Confessional War, a war most historians say he was most responsible for starting. He died a few years before the conclusion of that war.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Conchobar III9 June 1540-3 November 1572		1 March 1492	3 November 1572 aged 80	Grand Duke of Anivania

de Weluta Dynasty

During the course of the Great Confessional War, the Collegial Electorate selected King Leo of Urcea as Emperor to continue to prosecute the war against the Protestant Union as a wartime necessity.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Leo III"The Great"3 November 1572-5 December 1597		13 August 1527	5 December 1597 aged 70	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery

Jacobi Dynasty

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Hanequin I14 October 1648-15 March 1659		23 November 1586	29 March 1659 aged 73	Prince of Faramount Elector of Occitas
Benedict I27 March 1659-5 August 1702		27 March 1621	5 August 1702 aged 81	Prince of Faramount Elector of Occitas

de Weluta Dynasty

In 1702, King Riordan VII of Urcea was elected during the long period of peace. Members of the Collegial Electorate sought to continue the period of stability and elected King Riordan to that end.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Riordan I19 September 1702-5 December 1727		19 April 1670	5 December 1727 aged 57	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Aedanicus III5 December 1727-14 April 1741		3 August 1696	14 April 1741 aged 45	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery

Galen Dynasty

Following two consecutive Emperors from Urcea, the Collegial Electorate responded to fears by princes of Dericania by electing Louis, the Grand Duke of Verecundia, over Emperor Aedanicus's son and heir, King Leo. This, along with Emperor Louis IX moving to deny the Apostolic King of Urcea succession in the Grand Duchy of Carolina sparked the War of the Caroline Succession.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Louis IX14 April 1741-19 April 1749		1 December 1683	13 November 1755 aged 71	Grand Duke of Verecundia

de Weluta Dynasty

King Leo IV of Urcea annihilated Imperial forces in the War of the Caroline Succession, and the ensuing Treaty of Martinsburg not only guaranteed succession in Grand Duchy of Carolina but also gave the Apostolic King of Urcea the guaranteed right of succession, functionally abolishing the Collegial Electorate. Between 997 and 1935, this was the only period in which the elective monarchy of the Empire was abrogated. Louis IX abdicated in favor of King Leo IV at the end of the war. The naming conventions in this article differs slightly from that in the List of Urcean monarchs, as the name Lucás is also alternatively rendered as "Luciás", meaning that King Lucás III ruled the Holy Levantine Empire as Emperor Lucius III. This convention continues on with emperor Lucius IV in the 20th century as well.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Leo IV"Levanticus"19 April 1749-4 October 1768		9 July 1716	4 October 1768 aged 52	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Brian VII4 October 1768-13 April 1781		30 March 1744	13 April 1781 aged 37	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Lucius III"Lucás"13 April 1781-19 December 1798		24 July 1747	19 December 1798 aged 51	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery

deChantil Dynasty

The Empire had begun to chafe under the domination of Urcea, leading to unrest among the Imperial princes. In the midst of the Second Caroline War, Emperor Lucius III died, and his son, King Brian III, decided not to claim the Imperial dignity until the conclusion of the war. An ad hoc Collegial Electorate met in 1798 to elect Mauricio I, the Duke of Martilles, in an effort to throw off Urcean domination, which was successful, as the Urceans renounced the Treaty of Martinsburg at the conclusion of the war. The Electors made a solemn vow that they nor their successors never again to vote for an Apostolic King of Urcea to assume the Imperial dignity. Emperor Mauricio I failed to secure election for his son following his failure to reignite war with Urcea after the Urceans expelled the Imperial Inquisition from the country in 1815.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Mauricio I"Urceanicus"19 December 1798-3 August 1825		1 March 1758	3 August 1825 aged 67	Duke of Martilles

Marius Dynasty

After the debacle of the Grand Duchy of Anivania's republican revolution in 1909, the Empire was seeking a steady hand. August I of Burgundie had been an ardent anti-independentist and a loud voice in the Collegial Electorate for reunification measures. Upon the death of Emperor XXX, he made an active bid for the throne as "reunification" candidate. His stated primary agenda was to end the civil war in Anivania and finds ways to mend the confidence of the Kingdom of Dericania's princes in the Imperial Court. He was swiftly elected, but soon showed he had other ambitions.

Following his election as Emperor, August I, immediately declared war on Kiravia, igniting the War of St. Brendan's 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 St. Brendan's 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.

By 1919 it was clear that August no longer had the support of the Empire and pressure was put on him to abdicate. He refused as no other emperor has been asked to suffer the same indignity. He attempted a compromise option to save both the Empire and his role atop it by proposing to divest the Imperial title of the Kingship of Dericania by creating a confederated Kingdom within the Empire. This option was rejected by both the Imperial Diet and lawmakers in Burgundie, further undermining the Emperor's position. Pressure was mounted in early 1920 was the situation in the Kingdom of Dericania continued to unravel. Street riots broke out in a number of cities calling for the dissolution of the Empire and it started to look as though they might gain popular support. August I finally abdicated February 8, 1920, having fanned the flames of division in Levantia and lighting the fuse on the Derian powder keg. He remains the only emperor forced to abdicate and is generally regarded as the father of the fall of the Holy Levantine Empire and the Second Great War. Apologists conversely remember him as a modernizer of Levantia, and the father of public utilities in many southern Levantine nations today.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
August I24 September 1911-8 February 1920		1879	1980 aged 101	Great Prince of Burgundie

de Weluta Dynasty

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, Niall 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.

Name Reign	Portrait	Birth	Death	Other Titles Held
Niall II8 February 1920-2 October 1929		3 June 1859	2 October 1929 aged 70	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Brian VIII"The Last"2 October 1929-13 September 1947		19 April 1882	13 September 1947 aged 65	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Lucius IV"Lucás"13 September 1947-30 July 1949		19 February 1905	30 July 1949 aged 42	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Patrick IV30 July 1949-1 February 1967		1 April 1906	1 February 1967 aged 57	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Donnchad I1 February 1967-3 October 1971		9 October 1907	3 October 1971 aged 59	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Aedanicus IV3 October 1971-14 August 2006		1 May 1927	14 August 2006 aged 79	Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery
Riordan II14 August 2006-present		13 June 1986		Apostolic King of Urcea Elector of Canaery