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Romulus Augustus (c. 465 – after 511 [b]), nicknamed Augustulus, was Roman emperor of the West from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476. Romulus was placed on the imperial throne while still a minor by his father Orestes , the magister militum , for whom he served as little more than a figurehead.
Romulus Augustus: 475–476 (Not recognized by Eastern emperor) [202] Romulus Augustus was crowned as Western emperor after his father Orestes deposed Julius Nepos. [82] The rule of Romulus would be brief; in the autumn of 476 the foederati under the control of Odoacer rebelled when their demands for a third of the land of Italy were ignored. [203]
The western and eastern halves of the empire under Majorian and Leo (460) The Roman Empire in 476 After 395, the emperors in the western empire were usually figureheads, while the actual rulers were military strongmen who took the title of magister militum , patrician or both— Stilicho from 395 to 408, Constantius from about 411 to 421 ...
Romulus Augustus resigns the Crown. Castel dell'Ovo (Gulf of Naples). Year 476 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Basiliscus and Armatus (or, less frequently, year 1229 Ab urbe condita).
The fall of the Western Roman Empire is dated either from the de facto date of 476, when Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the Germanic Herulians led by Odoacer, or the de jure date of 480, on the death of Julius Nepos, when Eastern emperor Zeno ended recognition of a separate Western court. [11]
From a legal point of view, the Roman Empire, founded by Augustus in 27 BC and divided after the death of Theodosius I in 395 into two "parts" (or rather courts, as the empire continued to be considered as one), had survived only in the eastern part which, with the deposition of the last western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476, had also ...
Articles relating to emperor Romulus Augustulus of the Western Roman Empire (reigned 475–476). Pages in category "Romulus Augustulus" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Fortified by Valentinian III in the mid-5th century, it was the site to which one of the last Western Roman emperors, Romulus Augustulus, was exiled in 476. [4] [5] Eugippius founded a monastery on the site after 492. [6]