1statusemperor, ruler of an empire:
(
s.xii1/3;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Neruns fut de Rume emperere
28.17
(
1165-80?;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Dunc vint li emperires avant Od le patriarche vaillant
303.89
(
1214-16;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
Charlemayne nostre empererz
949
(
s.xiiim;
MS: s.xiiim
)
L’empereor Costentin
217
♦
statussupreme ruler:
(
c.1141;
MS: s.xiii4/4
) Li reis Tracianus, Empereres e dus, A Rome la cité [...] La fist a lui venir
76
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
Li tres poissant sires ke reis e enpires
(var. (BN: s.xivin) emperiers) ert e governours du ciel
207.31
(
1397
)
nostre seigneur le roy, come entier emperour de son roialme d’Engleterre
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