Puppet ruler
(Redirected from
Puppet monarch
)A puppet ruler is someone who holds a title that indicates they have
form of government
in numerous circumstances and places throughout history.
There are two basic forms of using puppets as monarchs (rulers, kings, emperors): a figurehead in which the monarch is a puppet of another person or a group in the country who rules instead of the nominal ruler; and a
King Farouk
of Egypt in the 1950s are examples of the second type.
List of puppet kings and queens
Classical antiquity
- Qin Er Shi, Emperor of China's Qin Empire – dominated by his eunuch Zhao Gao
- Emperor Xian of Han of China – dominated by the warlord Dong Zhuo, his successors Li Jue and Guo Si, and finally the Wei Kingdom founded by Cao Pi before being forced to abdicate
- Philip II Philoromaeus of the last Seleucid, King of Syria – ruled as client king for the Roman Republic and Pompey
Late antiquity
- Leo I the Thracian, Roman emperor appointed by Aspar, but broke free
- Libius Severus, second Roman emperor appointed by Ricimer
- Olybrius, third Roman emperor appointed by Ricimer
- Glycerius, Roman emperor appointed by Ricimer's nephew, Gundobad
- Romulus Augustulus, Roman emperor appointed by his general father, Orestes
Post-classical period
- Ecgberht I of Northumbria puppet ruler for the Danes
- Baldwin I, Latin Emperor – installed to rule the Latin Empire by the Republic of Venice after the Fourth Crusade
- John, King of England – nominally ruled as a vassal for Pope Innocent III after 1213
- John Balliol of Scotland – puppet king for King Edward I of England
- Ilkhanruler in Mongol Persia
- Henry VI Lancaster of England – largely dominated by advisors such as Queen Margaret of Anjou and William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Early modern period
- John Sigismund Zápolya, Ottoman puppet king of Hungary contesting Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I of Hapsburg's claim to the throne
- Manco Inca, Sapa Inca of Tawantinsuyu – installed by the Spanish Empire, later revolted and founded the Neo-Inca State
- Simeon Bekbulatovich Russian Tsar – ruled for one year as Puppet monarch of Ivan the Terrible
- Moctezuma II, Tlatoani (Emperor) of Tenochtitlan and Aztec Triple Empire
- Joseph Nasi, an Ottomans puppet manger as Duchy of Naxos
Napoleonic era
- Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Princess of Lucca
- Louis Bonaparte of the Kingdom of Holland
- Jérôme Bonaparte, of Kingdom of Westphalia created from territories of Prussia and the former Holy Roman Empire (present-day cultural Germany) after the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
- Napoleonic Spain during the Peninsular War and of the Neapolitan Kingdom after the French invasion of Naples
- Elector and later King, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, appointed as Napoleonic Duke of Warsaw (present-day Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania)
Late modern period
- Rulers of the princely states of India under paramountcy of the British East India Company and later the British Raj
- Hussein Shah of Johor – proclaimed Sultan of Johor by the British Empire during the succession crisis of the Johor Sultanate.
- Mubarak al-Sabah – signed an agreement with the British Empire to make the Sheikhdom of Kuwait a British protectorate
- Pedro V of Kongo – ruled the Kingdom of Kongo (modern-day Angola, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of the Congo) as a client king for the Portuguese Empire
- Gungunhana – Portuguese client ruler of the Gaza Empire, exiled after unsuccessful rebellion against Portuguese rule.
- Osman Mahamuud – client king of the Majeerteen Sultanate (modern-day Puntland) for the Italian Empire
- Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur – Russian client rulers of the Khanate of Khiva
- Emperor Gojong and Sunjong of Korea – ruled as puppets of the Japanese Empire after the Russo-Japanese War
- regime
- Emperor of Manchukuo – former Emperor of China appointed to lead Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo[1][2]
- Emperor of Vietnam – emperor of the French protectorate of Annam and Japanese-occupied Vietnam, later chief of state of South Vietnam
- Sisavang Vong, King of Luang Phrabang – client king of the French protectorate of Laos
- Tashi Namgyal and Palden Thondup Namgyal – ruled Sikkim as protectorate of India after 1950.
- Sisowath Monivong, of Cambodia – king of the French protectorate of Cambodia
Puppet governments
A puppet does not have to be a national ruler, or even a person. For example, Oscar K. Allen was widely recognized to be Huey Long's puppet while serving as governor of Louisiana.[3] The government of Manchukuo was controlled by the Japanese government.
References
- ^ Pu Yi 1988, p 281
- ^ Pu Yi 1988, p 298
- ^ ""Huey Long Is a Superman": Gerald L. K. Smith Defends the Kingfish". historymatters.gmu.edu. Retrieved Aug 4, 2020.