After Rome fell, the Western Roman Empire was destroyed, but the ideals of Roman civilisation endured in the barbarian tribes which replaced it. The Heruli and the Ostrogoths which conquered them are sometimes considered a continuation of the Roman sequence of rulers in Italy. When the Lombards sufficiently threatened the Pope in 774, he persuaded Charlemagne, King of the Franks, to come to the rescue of him and Rome, and conquer the Lombards. In 800, the Pope rewarded Charlemagne by making him the first Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire was not, however, a legitimate succession of the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Emperors took great offence at the Franks taking the title.
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| - After Rome fell, the Western Roman Empire was destroyed, but the ideals of Roman civilisation endured in the barbarian tribes which replaced it. The Heruli and the Ostrogoths which conquered them are sometimes considered a continuation of the Roman sequence of rulers in Italy. When the Lombards sufficiently threatened the Pope in 774, he persuaded Charlemagne, King of the Franks, to come to the rescue of him and Rome, and conquer the Lombards. In 800, the Pope rewarded Charlemagne by making him the first Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire was not, however, a legitimate succession of the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Emperors took great offence at the Franks taking the title.
- The Western Roman Empire, (along with its eastern counterpart, the Eastern Roman Empire) is a major opponent featured in numerous levels of the Attila the Hun campaign in the Age of Empires II: The Conquerors expansion and in the Alaric campaign, featured in the Forgotten expansion.
- In the alternate timeline from which the mirror universe split off, the ahistorical overthrow of Emperor Valentinian III by General Flavius Aetius after the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains led to the empire surviving somewhat longer than in the prime universe. (Bait and Switch: "Brother on Brother, Daughter on Mother")
- The Western Roman empire was founded in the year 395 AD, although it was founded in the 3rd century, but the Empire was united again. The loss of territory began with the legions leaving Britain, in the early 5th century, the Western Empire fell around the 470s. They are two eras in time:
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| - After Rome fell, the Western Roman Empire was destroyed, but the ideals of Roman civilisation endured in the barbarian tribes which replaced it. The Heruli and the Ostrogoths which conquered them are sometimes considered a continuation of the Roman sequence of rulers in Italy. When the Lombards sufficiently threatened the Pope in 774, he persuaded Charlemagne, King of the Franks, to come to the rescue of him and Rome, and conquer the Lombards. In 800, the Pope rewarded Charlemagne by making him the first Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire was not, however, a legitimate succession of the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Emperors took great offence at the Franks taking the title.
- The Western Roman Empire, (along with its eastern counterpart, the Eastern Roman Empire) is a major opponent featured in numerous levels of the Attila the Hun campaign in the Age of Empires II: The Conquerors expansion and in the Alaric campaign, featured in the Forgotten expansion.
- In the alternate timeline from which the mirror universe split off, the ahistorical overthrow of Emperor Valentinian III by General Flavius Aetius after the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains led to the empire surviving somewhat longer than in the prime universe. (Bait and Switch: "Brother on Brother, Daughter on Mother")
- The Western Roman empire was founded in the year 395 AD, although it was founded in the 3rd century, but the Empire was united again. The loss of territory began with the legions leaving Britain, in the early 5th century, the Western Empire fell around the 470s. They are two eras in time:
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