Ranking Every Roman Emperor Constantine From Worst to Best 

Imagine being such a bad emperor that, out of eleven emperors with the same name, you're in twelfth place.

Constantine X Doukas was such a bad emperor that it would be almost 400 years till another man named Constantine became the Basileus.

0:10 wow Constantine III lived for more than 3000 years, now THAT's what I call a succesful reign!

Glad to see Constantine V got some much-needed recognition 👍 Loved the vid!

This was a really fun idea for a video. It might be interesting to see a similar list ranking all the Michaels too (although most of them kind of sucked lol). There are 9 in total if you count Michael IX, who was never senior emperor but is still usually numbered for some unexplainable reason.

First! I agree with your ranking, Constantine the Great won almost every battle he fought, much like those emperors from the five good emperors era. And the fact that it has been so long since any emperor has been able to perform this makes him definitely the first place on this list.

There's more Constantines in the list. Emperor Constans II of the 7th century was actually supposed to be Constantine IV and in his time he was known as Constantine, not Constans. There was Constantine Lekapenos who was the co-emperor of his father Romanos I, and Constantine Laskaris who although may have never been crowned.

11:09 Even his coin looks like a Chad

Excellent ranking. Personally, I would switch IV with VII. Useful info: Originally the name of Constans II was Constantine too.

Constantine v was based

W ranking. constantine V was damn near the perfect emperor, constantine vii is like the most underrated emperor in history and the eleventh was a hero

Constantine V's annexation of the fortress of Kamacha on the eastern border. This was probably one of the first gains from the Caliphate in almost a century which would be followed by the capture of Melitene almost 2 centuries later (I believe the last time land was retaken was Rhodes after the first siege of Constantinople during the reign of Constantine IV unless you count the failed invasion of Armenia by Justinian II)

Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos should be #3 at WORST for his tremendous fortitude of heroism in the final moments of the Byzantine-Roman Empire and for doing everything he possibly could to inspire what was left of his people.

Basillius II was my favourite, he founded the Varangian Guard

the pictures you used for Irene of Athenes are actually St Irene of hungary or Piroska!

Without Constantine X, the Roman Empire might still exist.

Yeahhhhhhh boiiii, Constantine Monomachos getting the respect he deserves, no Emperor had to deal with threats of his scale in the last 300 years. The Empire also saw substantial economic growth under him and the creation of a new middle class, with new upper class families like the Komnenoi rising to prevalence cause of him. Pretty good list, I’d personally lower Constantine Palaiologos as he’s flatout the reason the Empire got destroyed, instigating the heck out of the Ottomans and people forget he died a Catholic. Yet he was militarily and economically competent for the territory he did control. I’d put him under Monomachos and put Constantine VIII above Constantine VI, Kaldellis has convinced me VIII didn’t do anything that actually hurt the Empire in the long run and he only reigned 3 years, successfully enabling a peaceful succession. And Constantine V was a Chad, deserves his spot, but his Zealous belief in Iconoclasm hurt the Empire and crucially alienated it’s western provinces, most importantly Ravenna and Rome.

Was the Eastern Roman succession part of the inception of the European tradition of numerical Christian monarchs? I find it interesting that we tend to avoid numerical assignment of the earlier Roman Emperors despite many of them sharing names, instead going for nicknames and the like. You'd almost think they got the word constant from how many bloody emperors were constantly Constantine...

Just found your videos, great stuff. Thank you for treating Constantine IX Monomachos well, so many don't, but like you said he was just a flawed man doing his best. Respect.

Constantine V may well be my favourite Roman Emperor

Κωνσταντίνος Δραγάτσης Παλαιολόγος Ο μαρμαρωμένος βασιλιάς 🇬🇷

3:37 got the dates a little mixed up there, other than that an entertaining video though. Enjoyed watching it :)

More based content. Why don't you have 50,000 subscribers instead of 1,000? RU-vid's algorithm targets towards the same content you've seen over, not interesting new stuff you've never learned about. Plain unfair.

Please make one ranking all the Emperors (Byzantine, Western, United). I don't care if they are all together ot 3 separate videos, but I think it would be popular!

Congrats on 1K! I’m glad to be in the before one thousand club (Also I think you should of put Flavius higher on the list)

S: Constantine I A: Constantine V, Constans II B: Constantine XI, Constantine IV, Constans I, Constantine VII C: Constantine IX D: Constantine III East, Constans II (Usurper), Constantine II E: Constantine VI, Constantine VIII F: Constantine III, Constantine X Lila Rossi (Special tier): Constantine II

My fave will always be Constantine V for all the reasons you just mentioned. Great vid man! Just suscribed to your channel and I hope it keeps growing.

Could you perhaps do a video about how the title of Princeps worked? What powers the Princeps had? And how Rome still technically was a Republic during this time?

Wasn’t contans II also actually called constantine

3:39 erratum ! Constantine VI's reign was 8 September 780 - 19 August 797 A.D. (your dates of 1025-1028 appear to be wrong). He did reign during the VII Ecumenical Council and stop Iconoclasm and signed its decrees of Nicaea II, but he had a marriage issue which was called the Moechian Controversy. This altered history because St. Leo III would crown Charlemagne as Roman Emperor due to a prolonged vacancy. He ought to have appealed to the First See of Elder Rome about an investigation into grounds for annulment. He was a victim of a conspiracy by the party in favor of Irene's reign.

very enjoyable video thank you

Idk Constantine III should be at the top cause without him the greatest kingdom of all time couldn't have been founded. Norþanhymbre of course. But then again he also allowed Miercnarice to be founded. Mixed bag I guess

There is another. *Christloving Emperor and Autocrat of Serbia and Romania, Emperor of all Serb and Greek lands, the Maritime Region, Arbania and the Western Provinces, Despot of Arta and Count of Vlachia."

i love constantine xi so much

10:30 bro you didnt mention he lost the city of Rome :(

Constantine II, the son of the great was the worst imo.

You should have included constantius named emperors too.

I love you Constantine XI ;_;

Here before 100k subscribers

I've heard that Maxentius wasn't such a bad Emperor. He was portrayed as a tyrant by Constantine's supporters. Maxentius didn't persecute Christians in his realm and I find it funny that many Christians view the battle of the Milvian Bridge as the battle of Christianity and paganism.

Constantine I the """"""""""great""""""""""" isn't as great as people say he is. His "greatness" is extremely exaggerated, Mostly by Christians, and he himself was a fanatical and mediocre ruler at best. When compared to say, Diocletianus, Trajanus, and others, He simply cannot compete. He divided his Empire instead of uniting it, And in the end he had to unite it again anyway by defeating all the tetrarchs in battle, So his tetrarchy went nowhere and only made everything more confusing. Plus, Under him, Christian Favoritism surged. He also hated anyone who believed anything else other than his demonic Nicene creed. So much so that he had writings of people like Arius burnt and destroyed. But in the end, He was literally baptized by an Arian.

11:09 Hi, I'm here to inform you that I'm just an emperor, even though I'm the best, I'm just a simple leader with Christianity as my religion

Christian's any regret losing Constantinople.... With what's happening in today's news.... It was a serious blunder for the Christians to lose Constantinople.🗡️💀🛡️

I was expecting you to constantly be making crappy puns. I’m actually disappointed that you didn’t.

I believe since Western Constantine III was recognised by honorius as Augustus he should be real Constantine III, for the short-lived son of Hereclius, I believe we should use Hereclius II as his name was Hereclius Constantine.

western iii doesn't sound anywhere near as bad as x doukas, i suspect you put him unfairly low just to get him out of the way quicker

Costantine 9th meh he debased the coin he toke Armenia he should have left it as buffer state he neglected the military and relaying on mercenaries this main reason why 1071 happened 😠😒

what would you rank Constantine Laskaris

RANK ALL THE CONSULS. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO! DO IT!

Sdaley that 1 mistake doomed us for 600 years,

Cool

10:51 rightfully deserved nickname, Constatine the Great would have executed the iconoclast.

I agree that Constantine IX tried to prevent any Schism between East and West.

sweet

Nice video

Idk why II is so high while III actually secured throne for his sons which worked better than anything II ever did

Excellent content

Constantine VII deserved more but all the list are pretty good

How do you only have 1k subscribers??

Do you plan on making alt hist scenarios?

I got a feeling this channel is going to explode soon…

fix the years of reign for... IV in the discreption

Constantine V was Syrian, probably arab

Congrats on 1k

Thanks!

I know you make roman videos but it would be cool to make every ptolemy video

Constantine was Illyrian. So were most of the best Roman emperors.

In the Vatican cathedral there are Two big statues of Roman emperours. Constantine and Charlemagne.

Unfortunately, this video as well seems to belong to a long chain of mostly luxury videos that are serving the atzzaeenttaaa that Greek-Byzantium was Roman and not at all Greek...It is a video serving an ageenntaaa rather than the historical truth!

And what about Constantine II?

What show is that featuring Constantine XI's last stand?

Bro your clearing stealing from spectrum

Constantine V was a swine. I would personally put him lower. he opposed monasticism and icons and destroyed icon supporting churches without remorse. despite the fact he indeed brought stability, he doesnt deserve that high in the list, at least, in my opinion.