id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9759 List of Roman emperors - Wikipedia .html text/html 11581 1619 74 The fall of the Western Roman Empire, and so the end of a separate list of emperors below, is dated either from the de facto date of 476 when Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the Germanic Herulians led by Odoacer or the de jure date of 480, on the death of Julius Nepos, when Eastern emperor Zeno ended recognition of a separate Western court. The line of emperors continued until the death of Constantine XI Palaiologos during the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, when the remaining territories were captured by the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II.[4] The Ottoman dynasty carried on using the title of Caesar of Rome. Grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, became emperor as a result of settlement with the Roman Senate Cousin and alleged illegitimate son of Caracalla, grandnephew of Septimius Severus, proclaimed emperor by the army, in opposition to Macrinus ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9759.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9759.txt