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Because of this, all but the first and last of the Nerva–Antonine emperors are called Adoptive Emperors. The importance of official adoption in Roman society has often been considered [1] a conscious repudiation of the principle of dynastic inheritance and has been deemed one of the factors of the period's prosperity.
Nerva was the first of the dynasty. [3] Though his reign was short, it saw a partial reconciliation between the army, the senate and the commoners. Nerva adopted as his son the popular military leader Trajan. In turn, Hadrian succeeded Trajan; he had been the latter's heir presumptive, and averred that he had been adopted by him on Trajan's ...
This is a list of the dynasties that ruled the Roman Empire and its two succeeding counterparts, the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.Dynasties of states that had claimed legal succession from the Roman Empire are not included in this list.
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The dynasty consisted of the six "Good Emperors" (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Lucius Verus, and Marcus Aurelius) in addition to Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The emperors from the founding of the Dominate in 284, in the West until 476 and in the East until 518, can be organised into one large dynasty plus various unrelated emperors. During most of this periods, though not always, there where two senior emperors ruling in separate courts.
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