Which abolished European monarchy would you bring back?

[gangleri2001]

Actually, back in the day a prerequisite for becoming Holy Roman Emperor was to first be crowned King of Rome by the pope.

HRE? Who wants that back? I'm talking about the original Latino-Sabine non-hereditary monarchy. For Romulus!

 

[Samez]

Hard choice. German monarchy would be really messy if related to HRE with the kingdoms of Bavaria, Prussia, Bohemia and all those duchees, principalities and good knows what imperial titels.
I would probably go for the Kingdom of Burgundy or Sardinia Piemont.

 

[Voidwalkin]

Dumnonia, just to screw up the British monarchy.

Why not Wessex?

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Easily the Hapsburgs. A reunified Austria-Hungary, if only ceremonially in the same manner that Brittan and Canada are today would serve as the perfect counterbalance to the Franco-German axis currently running the EU and provide much needed breathing room for the nations in the east.

And barring that, even the consolation prize of them just existing as a Hapsburg imperial rump state in Austria clinging to a Holy Roman legacy like some sort of tragic joke reminiscent of the dying days of Eastern Rome would just be plain funny.

Honestly I am not even sure which of the two options I'd prefer. One would be politically far better but the having an Emperor of all of Europe that nobody listens to ruling in a court nobody cares about somewhere in Austria would be just as good purely for the joke it would be.

 

[Kyriakos]

Following a world war, not even restorations of some of the royal houses would be out of the question.

 

[Plotinus]

Why not Wessex?

Because the Cornish already think they’re not English, so they’d absolutely get behind the new heir of Constantine and reject the house of Windsor altogether. Whereas the Wessex monarchy eventually became the English monarchy, more or less, so the house of Windsor could plausibly make a claim to being heirs to the Wessex monarchy and come to some kind of settlement with them.

 

[Snowygerry]

Why resurrect a monarchy when you can just create a new one much better than the old ones.

Monarchy of Belgium - Wikipedia

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[Valka D'Ur]

Maybe France? By what metric did things become better for them after they killed Louis 16?

I think they adopted the metric system after that, yes. And how dare you use Arabic numerals and not the proper Roman numerals. XVI!

I belong to a couple of history groups on FB and there are some people who use "1" instead of "I". This results in them talking about Henry 111, making it look like there have been at least one hundred and eleven Henries (in addition to IV-VIII).

With the right city returned, the Byzantine Empire could use a new autokrator.

Kyriakos I, I presume?

Actually, back in the day a prerequisite for becoming Holy Roman Emperor was to first be crowned King of Rome by the pope.

What's that saying... oh, right. The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

 

[amadeus]

I belong to a couple of history groups on FB and there are some people who use "1" instead of "I".

I have seen keyboards (on typewriters) without 0 or 1 keys, but never ones without I and O. I was just thinking maybe these people had really strange layouts for the1r keyb0ards.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I suppose they could be posting on their phone, but it's still annoying.

And scary to think about Henry the 111th. Eight was more than enough.

 

[warpus]

I am 100% against any sort of Monarchy anywhere, they should all be abolished and never brought back.

But if I had to pick one I'd go with Russia. I mean... It couldn't be any worse than what they have now, could it? My only stipulation would be that the royal family would have to wear those silly 1800s wigs and dress in silly 1800 clothes.

 

[Josu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Navarre

 

[amadeus]

People that said abolish all: read the OP. You are abolishing yourself.

 

[Plains-Cow]

Khaganate of Crimea under the Girays.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

I have seen keyboards (on typewriters) without 0 or 1 keys, but never ones without I and O. I was just thinking maybe these people had really strange layouts for the1r keyb0ards.

It was just easier for me to type 16, as in Louis 16. Although I guess that makes him sound like some gamer personality, I admit...

On the contrary, it bugs me when non-English speakers like to say "XX" for 20th century, etc. Why does that ever happen?

 

[warpus]

People that said abolish all: read the OP. You are abolishing yourself.

I willingly step down as monarch and hand the keys to the country to the democratically elected politician, making sure to swipe a couple of the little soaps from the royal palace beforehand.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It was just easier for me to type 16, as in Louis 16. Although I guess that makes him sound like some gamer personality, I admit...

On the contrary, it bugs me when non-English speakers like to say "XX" for 20th century, etc. Why does that ever happen?

Roman numerals are often used to express years. You can see that in some old books for publication date, and it's common for movies.

And in the Society for Creative Anachronism the year is reckoned from the founding of the Society (July 1, 1966) - and normally expressed in Roman numerals. This year is A.S. LVIII (Anno Societatis LVIII, mka 58 for those who aren't fluent in Roman numerals).

 

[amadeus]

This year was also Super Bowl XVIII, so that’s something to match. To put in more creative anachronistic terms, the 58th AFL-NFL Championship Game.