Emperors

However, in general, it seems that the Emperors had continued without seeking worldly power.

Gluteus Maximus was one of the cheekiest Roman emperors.

The Year of the Four Emperors, 69 AD, is a remarkable page of the Roman history.

Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb are considered the most important Mughal emperors.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

Rome had several mad emperors.

Marcus Aurelius was one of the most respected emperors in Roman history.

Leovigild had expelled the remaining soldiers of the Greek emperors from Spain, had suppressed the audacity of the Franks, who in their raids ravaged the Visigothic provinces beyond the Pyrenees, had put an end to the sort of monarchy that the Suevi had established in Gallaecia and had expired in Toledo, after having established political and civil laws, and peace and public order in its vast domains, which stretched from coast to coast, and also, crossing the mountains of Vasconia, covered a large portion of the former Narbonian Gaul.

When the war broke out there was something gruesomely comic in the proclamations of emperors and archdukes appealing to that invincible soul of a nation whose existence or moral worth they had been so arrogantly denying for more than a century.

You solemnly swear that you hereby and hereon renounce all emperors, kings, princes, and potentates, and more especially—how does the rest of it go?