Your grandson (680AD-???) gathers next to the fire to hear you recant a story your grandfather (525AD-610AD) told you, about his chance encounter with the last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus (460AD-530AD).
>>18508905Years later, in 760AD, your grandson sees a young child, and is reminded of the story he heard from his grandfather of the days of Roman splendour. The child's name? Carolus.Yours was the only generation without living memory of a Roman Emperor.The Western Roman Empire did not end with Romulus Augustus; it merely faced an interregnum.
Even the Franks didn't think the Roman Empire ended in 476 they claimed to be the successors of Constantine VI while recognising Irene as illegitimate
Except that1) Nobody remembers people they met at 4-52) There were plenty of (Eastern) Roman Emperors in the meantime
>>18508916Does anybody actually count the Eastern Roman Empire, which was neither Roman nor an Empire? Buncha dirty Turks can't be Roman.
>>18508930See>>18508915
It's May 685 AD and the Roman Emperor Constantine IV rules in Constantinople. Benedict II has been chosen as the Pope by the clergy and people of Rome, but his ordidation has been delayed for two years, as he awaits approval from the Emperor in the East, as is ancient tradition. An envoy finally arrives, bearing Constantine's approval and a written ruling that direct word of the Emperor is no longer needed to elevate a man to the Bishophood of Rome, and only approval from the Emperor's local representative, the Exarch of Ravenna, is needed. From now on Popes may be elected as soon as the Roman Church wishes and confirmed within weeks.Benedict is overjoyed at the lessened bureucracy and his Emperor's mercy, and symbolically adopts Constantine's sons Justinian and Heraclius. On 10 July, Constantine dies of dysentry, and Justinian II takes the Roman throne. Benedict will never know this, as he dies on May 8 and is succeeded by John V on 23 July.It is the era of the Byzantine Papacy (537-752), and the Emperor rule supreme over his loyal subjects.
>>18508905Moving to venice as soon as possible to avoid the raiding groups or something like that
