Emperor
Romulus Augustulus was just 16 and had been in power for only a few months when he decided to abdicate to avoid being murdered.
476: Puppet emperor
Romulus Augustulus was deposed by Odoacer, a probably-Germanic soldier who declared himself King of Italy - an event generally seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire.
In the preface, Jean-Luc Wauthier recounts his discovery in the Oxford University Library in England of late antiquity tablets purportedly written by the last emperor of the western part of the Roman Empire, Romulus Augustulus. He silences his own doubts by citing Marguerite Yourcenar's discovery of the "authentic" memoirs of Roman emperor Hadrian, introducing us through this transparent lie to the novel's picaresque realm.
It witnesses the imagined rivalry of Romulus Augustulus, deposed ruler of the West, and his cousin Justinian, rising emperor of the East who became heir to Rome.
From Romulus to
Romulus Augustulus; Roman history for the new millennium.
In Constantinople, the Emperor Zeno agreed and
Romulus Augustulus, the Western Emperor in name only, was allowed to retire.
After some five centuries of imperial domination from the Sahara to the Rhine, and from the British Isles to Mesopotamia, the Western empire collapsed in the late fifth century, specifically when its last emperor,
Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in 476 by the German tribal leader Odacer, after a near century of enervating attacks by Visigoths, Vandals, and Huns.
so was he the victim of a flying dismount that went wrong after winning the
Romulus Augustulus Handicap for Peter Walwyn?
The empire in the West ended 476, when
Romulus Augustulus was banished by the barbarian Odoacer.
475:
Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor: his deposition less than a year later by Germanic Arian Christian warrior Odoacer is seen as marking the end of the Western Empire.
The plan was fiercely opposed by the Roman leader Orestes, the power behind the throne and father of Emperor
Romulus Augustulus. But with Odoacer controlling the army, Orestes had no real chance of thwarting the barbarian's plan, and the barbarian leader captured and executed Orestes near Placentia on August 28 of the fateful year.