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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 4745623, member: 93702&quot;]<b>Next, post the last Roman emperor to ever control Britain</b>. I was about to post my answer... then read this.. so someone else will have to clarify:</p><p><br /></p><p>----</p><p>&nbsp;The Roman Empire ruled most of the Island of Great Britain, including most of what later became England, for about 350 years, and the partially Romanised and partially Celtic natives of Roman Britain are often called Romano-Britons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Emperor Honorius could be counted as the last Roman ruler in England since the soldiers in Britain revolted against him in 406. In 407 the Roman troops in Britain were led to Gaul by the usuper Constantine III, who was defeated in 411, thus making Constantine III the last Roman usurper to rule in what later became England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Except that the historian Procopius writing over a century later wrote that since 411 Britain had been ruled by “tyrants”, and at that time “tyrant” meant a usurper of the imperial title who wasn’t recognized by the senior emperor. Thus the Romano-Britons might have had “Roman Emperors” in Britain for centuries after 411, while the ancestors of the English invaded Britain and conquered most of it and founded the future country of England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wales was the Romano-British region which resisted the invading English the longest. A number of Welsh rulers were called “king of the Britons” in various sources, implying that they claimed to be the rightful overlords of other British kingdoms, and almost every person called a “king of the Britons” was the ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd or North Wales. Thus the rulers of Gwynedd may have been the successors of the Romano-British emperors in Britain.</p><p><br /></p><p>The English invasion of Britain was completed after 800 years when Edward I of England conquered Gwynedd in 1282 to 1283, and David, Prince of Wales and rightful King of the Britons, was tortured to death. And this could be considered to be the final barbarian conquest of the last part of the western Roman Empire, and David of Gwynedd could be considered the last Romano-British ruler, though whether Wales should be counted as part of England or not for the purpose of the question is uncertain.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, in 1193–94 Henry VI, Emperor of the Romans, held King Richard I a prisoner, and only released him when Richard paid a “king’s ransom” for his freedom, and according to some sources, became a vassal of the Emperor for all his possessions, including England. So if a Holy Roman Emperor counts as a Roman rulers, and if Richard did become the Emperor’s vassal for England, Henry VI became a Roman ruler or overlord of England in 1194, and some of the succeeding Holy Roman Emperors might possibly have continued to have over lordship of England.</p><p><br /></p><p>As this short summary shows, the question of the last Roman ruler in England is not very simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>---------</p><p>looks like a good topic for a thread on its own...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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