Eighty miles east of Tripoli, Leptis Magna was the hometown of Roman Emperor Septimus Severus.
In 378, Roman Emperor Valens attacked the Visigoths in the decisive battle of Adrianople.
They saw the departure as the last days of a modern-day Roman emperor, mired in scandal.
In 1194, Frederick II, the Holy Roman emperor from 1220 to 1250, was born.
In 44 BC, conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor.
In 1155, Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV.
One example is Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian, " an imagined life of the Roman emperor Hadrian.
In 1519, Charles I of Spain became Holy Roman Emperor and ruled until 1556 as Charles V.
Two thousand years ago, the Roman Emperor Augustus built a monument here to celebrate his victory over 45 Alpine tribes.
If I could have dinner with one historical figure, it just might be the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
In 1637, Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, archduke of Austria and king of Bohemia and Hungary, died.
Eventually he became court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Philip II, King of Spain.
But Muserico just pops out all over, between Pope and Holy Roman Emperor.
He served as the 16th Roman Emperor until his death in 180 C.
FORBES: For Clearer Thinking, Give Your Brain a Daily Dose of Marcus Aurelius
The celebrated Charles V with Dog shows the Holy Roman Emperor at the height of his power, with an expression and pose to match.
In 1341, in the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between Louis IV, Roman Emperor, and Philip VI of France at Vincennes.
In gold writing on purple parchment, the 10th-century Holy Roman Emperor Otto I asserts his veto power over the election of new pontiffs.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca
Joseph II, Holy roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790, created scholarships for talented poor students and was also a great supporter of Wolfgang Mozart.
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One legend contends that Valentine was a Christian martyr executed for standing up to the Roman emperor who wanted to ban soldiers from getting married.
The Roman Emperor Pertinax granted 10 years tax immunity and free land to those who would take over agricultural land abandoned because of heavy taxation.
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In 1214, Philip II of France beat an allied English, Flemish and German army under Otto IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, at the Battle of Bouvines.
Prof Perotti despairs, comparing it to the time of Nero, when the notoriously mad Roman Emperor decreed that no citizen could ever leave his family's allotted profession.
Trying to search videos without access to the spoken text is like trying to search for a book that mentions Roman emperor Nero by looking through book reviews.
In 1508, the League of Cambrai was formed by Pope Julius II, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon to attack Venice.
Applied to Getty, who imagined he was the reincarnation of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and who admired Hitler as a kind of 20th century Hadrian, Mencken was partially right on.
It glorified Eliseg and Cyngen, proclaiming their lineage from the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus and his son Vortigern (or Gwrtheyrn), and asserted that Eliseg drove the English from the area after they had laid this borderland waste for nine years.
Pope Clement VII's 1530 bull approving the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V might seem an assertion of papal supremacy until one notes that it followed the 1527 sack of Rome by Charles's mutinous troops, many of them German Lutherans.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca
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