For the longest time, the only two cunts called Emperor in Europe

>>1104320
Titles meant something special and was attached to claiming the position from Rome. When Spanish kings unified Spanish Kingdoms they took the title "Imperator totius Hispaniae" and the Pope condemn them for it, cause it took prominence away from the Holy Roman Emperor and they stopped.

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>>1104320
R u srs?
Ok the reason why the only guy who could call himself Emperor in western europe is the >H >R >E Emperor is because of Charlemagne + Ottonians. Technically there is only one Emperor in Western Europe. The Byzantine one is self explanatory.

>What caused the sudden updraft in the title of Emperors in Europe?
The fall of HRE and Byzantium.

Tsar came about when the Byzantines fell and Moscow's Ivan the #th married a Byzantine Princess, and declared 3rd Rome.

Austrian and HRE Emperor is technically one dude. And then Napoops BTFO the Austrians and HRE was dissolved. After Napoops, the German Confederation replaced it, with an elected President among the princes (usually for the first half of the 19th Century, this was the Austrian Emperor.)

Napoleon's Emperorhood was an exercise in being a dick.

>>1104320
Well, a lot of those states became Empires:

Russia, for example, is an incredibly ethnically diverse place that was forced into confederation and ruled by a small class of Muscovites (and later on Austrians).

France conquered most of Europe very briefly and later on a gigantic land share in Africa that is larger than Western Europe, and encompasses a large variety of cultures and ethnic groups.

There were more emperors because European countries became more powerful.

>>1104332
How come Britain never had an Emperor?

>>1104338
Well, they created the bullshit title of "Empress of India" for Victoria.

>>1104338
Britain did. I believe that Victoria's title was something like "Queen of the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, Empress of India."