The Emperor of Austria was the heir to the Roman Emperor. Prove

>>1892786
>Western Roman Empire→Holy Roman Empire
Here you go.

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Also pic related is the Roman Emperor

>holy
first flaw
>roman
second flaw
>empire
third flaw

>>1892807
>le Voltaire maymay xD

>>>/reddit/

>>1892786
Translatio imperii is literally an invention which has nothing to do with reality. Also the nigger doesn't even have an own crown.

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>>1892827
>if I call it a meme then it won't be true

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By that logic this guy will be the rightful emperor of Europe within a few years...

The Palaiologos family still exists through the Italian Gonzaga family, which is descended from the Palaiologos of Montferrat. One of the Gonzaga duchesses married into the Hapsburg family in the 1700s. All Austrian emperors are descended from her children. The eastern and western Roman thrones belong to the Hapsburgs.

>>1892861
The Palaiologos family still exists through the Russian Romanov family, which is descended from the Imperial Palaiologos. One of the Palaiologos duchesses married into the Rurik family in the 1400s, who later intermarried with the Romanovs. All Russian emperors are descended from her children. The eastern and western Roman thrones belong to the Romanovs.

>>1892872

The Palaiologos of Monferrat have existed since the 1100s. The Romanov Palaiologos only since the 1400s.

>>1892880
And? Sophia was more closely related to the Constantine than the Monferratians

>>1892891

Theodore of Montferrat was the third son of Andronikos II, the second Palaiologos emperor.

>>1892898
And Sophia is a daughter of Thomas Palaiologos, the despot of Morea and brother of Constantine XI, your point?

>>1892880
>The Palaiologos of Monferrat have existed since the 1100s. The Romanov Palaiologos only since the 1400s.
That would actually mean the Romanovs would have a better claim though. Royal succession goes to more recent lines, not older ones.

>>1892922

I would say the Gonzaga family is more legitimate. Thomas was penniless, and Sophia's line ended in the 1600s.

>>1892937
"Legitimacy" in a royal succession sense doesn't depend on how wealthy you are.

everyone knows the line of the Roman Emperors moved to Byzantium from Constantine onword, and when Byzantine fell the Russian C-zars became the successors

and thus when the communist killed the Romanovs they destroyed the last of the Roman emperors (thus communism destroyed Rome).