Since he possessed more power in an interdependent universe of living beings and dead spirits, the emperor had to use it for the benefit of the living.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

While this increased Antoninus ’ s popularity, the frugal emperor had to debase the Roman currency.

Ambrose told Theodosius to imitate David in his repentance as he had imitated him in guilt — Ambrose readmitted the emperor to the Eucharist only after several months of penance.

In 392, after the death of Valentinian II and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the pardon of those who had supported Eugenius after Theodosius was eventually victorious.

Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

Her great-uncle Tiberius had already become emperor and the head of the family after the death of Augustus in 14.

The astrologers had rather accurately predicted that her son would become emperor and would kill her.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

He and his cousin were both grandsons of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa, who had arranged for Elagabalus ' acclamation as emperor by the famed Third Gallic Legion.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

To compensate for this crime and to solidify his position as emperor, Alexios had to scatter money so lavishly as to empty his treasury, and to allow such licence to the officers of the army as to leave the Empire practically defenceless.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

Sole emperor from 1282, Andronikos II immediately repudiated his father's unpopular Church union with the Papacy ( which he had been forced to support while his father was still alive ), but was unable to resolve the related schism within the Orthodox clergy until 1310.

He returned to Italy with Ursicinus, when he was recalled by Constantius, and accompanied him on the expedition against Claudius Silvanus, who had been forced by the allegedly unjust accusations of his enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in Gaul.

In Florence he met Sigismund, who had just been crowned King of Germany and who had ambitions to become emperor.

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

The work arose, he says, from a conversation he had with the emperor Nerva at Frontinus's house at Formiae.

After escaping from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen, who had abducted him together with his brother Ernest, he spent some time at the court of the emperor Frederick III in Vienna.

Prasutagus had lived a long life of conspicuous wealth and, hoping to preserve his line, made the Roman emperor co-heir to his kingdom, along with his wife and two daughters.

After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

The reigning emperor Alexius III had made no preparation.

This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

However, not only did he reject the title of Dominus during his reign, but since he issued no official documentation or coinage to this effect, historians such as Brian Jones contend that such phrases were addressed to Domitian by flatterers who wished to earn favors from the emperor.

For the majority of his reign, there was no widespread dissatisfaction with the emperor or his rule.

It is true that its origins are buried in the mists of time: there are no records of any emperor who was not said to have been a descendant of other, yet earlier emperors.

In South East Asia, no distinction is made between emperor and king.

, sometimes romanized as Suisei and known as Kamu-nuna-kaha-mimi no mikoto ; was the second emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as shikitsuhikotamatemi no Mikoto ; was the third emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as Mimatsuhikokaeshine no Mikoto ; was the fifth emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as Yamatotarashihikokunioshihito no Mikoto ; was the sixth emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as Ooyamatonekohikofutoni no Mikoto ; was the seventh emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

, also known as Ooyamatonekohikokunikuru no Mikoto, was the eighth emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as Wakayamatonekohikooobi no Mikoto ; is the ninth emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; (" Sūjin ", used by Aston, is not the standard pronunciation ) also known as Mimakiiribikoinie no Sumeramikoto or Hatsukunishirasu Sumeramikoto ; was the tenth emperor of Japan.

The emperor complied, but there was no immediatate change for the better.

The emperor sent an army under Isaseri-hiko no Mikoto, which crushed the rebel forces, and Ata-bime too was slain.

; also known as Ikumeiribikoisachi no Mikoto ; was the 11th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as Ootarashihikooshirowake no Sumeramikoto, was the 12th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as Wakatarashihiko no Sumeramikoto ; was the 13th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

; also known as Tarashinakatsuhiko no Sumeramikoto ; was the 14th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.