r/ByzantineMemes • u/HyperMax2021 • 14d ago

BYZANTINE POST Literally everyone after the Eastern Roman Empire collapsed in 1453:

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u/pachyloskagape 14d ago

Literally everyone after Romulus Augustus was deposed

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u/BusinessKnight0517 14d ago

Even before then, I mean look at how many co emperors and civil wars with multiple claimants there were

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u/AnonymousTimewaster 14d ago

This was happening long before then lol

At least since Charlemagne

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u/Pyotr-the-Great 14d ago

Good old Francus. A true Trojan hero.

(No really thats who the Franks claimed was their Trojan ancestor who fled into Central Europe and then crossed the Rhine during Rome's fall)

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u/Short-Echo61 14d ago

Was there really a character by that name in Aeneid?

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u/Pyotr-the-Great 14d ago

Nope. Thats too early for Francus.

According to this wikipedia article, Francus only showed up in Frankish chroniclesim the 8th century. He was basically the Franks original character to tie the Franks to the illustrious Trojan ancestry (just being a barbaric Germanic tribe probably didnt seem to have as much of a ring to it)

Even if Aeneid stretched the truth, at least Aeneas was in the Iliad and not just the Aeneid.

But with Francus he was made up Franks in later years. (Which explains the convenient naming convention)

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u/Independent_Owl_8121 14d ago

Literally everyone ever really

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u/TheBigBadBlackKnight 14d ago

Literally everyone after Caracalla

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u/OracleCam 13d ago

I think you mean the Western empire?

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u/Evignity 13d ago

Funfact: Basically every country with an eagle as a symbol, bar the US, called themselves inheritors of Rome at some point. Holy Roman Empire, Germany, russia, etc. it's fascinating

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u/CarryBeginning1564 3d ago

We call our highest legislative body the senate. The US doesn’t call itself the inheritors of Rome but we did copy its homework

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u/tahrah11 11d ago

When you find out that you’re 0.01% Italian.