King is higher than Emperor right?
2007-07-06 13:03:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
A king rules a kingdom, an emperor rules an empire and could, potentially, have kings within his empire who are subordinate to him. Think of the bible - King Herod was a subject of Emperor Augustus.
As I recall the order is:
emperor (empire)
king (kingdom)
prince (principality)
duke (dukedom)
below this, in England the peerage would be:
marquess (march)
earl (earldom)
viscount (viscountcy)
baron (barony)
2007-07-06 13:57:44 · answer #1 · answered by Dave P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Other way around---Emperor is higher than King. That's how it's been for over two thousand years. But hey, what do I know. After all, I was only the FIRST Roman Emperor in history ;)
2007-07-07 12:17:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traditionally, Emperor was higher than King - an emperor ruled over an empire, which may have had several subsidiary kingdoms within it. Nowadays, the only monarch that uses the title of Emperor is Akihito of Japan, and that use is more historical than it is a title of actual power. He would rank no higher than any other national monarch, whatever their title.
2007-07-07 11:44:24 · answer #3 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the old days a King was a monarch of one simple country but an Emporer was a monarch of a big empire, comprised of many countries. Today we don't use the term empire politically, we call every place, a country, state, providence, etc, so anyone called an emporer or empress as in Japan is just a traditional/herical (spelling) title.
2007-07-06 16:25:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
king is feudalistic name where you have lord and vassal and emperor is a imperial name for a more centralize government where the emperor hold absolute power
2007-07-06 14:32:07 · answer #5 · answered by Maxi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
king. a male ruler of a nation, especially a hereditary monarch. ... sovereign, ruler, majesty, emperor, despot, potentate, tyrant, autocrat, ...
2007-07-06 13:11:51 · answer #6 · answered by Gerry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋