Hungarian ruler of the Arpad dynasty, founder of the Hungarian state. By the pagan name Vajk, István took the name only at his baptism. From 997 he was a prince and during the Christmas services on December 25, 1000, he was crowned Apostolic King.
Zeno was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. Domestic revolts and religious dissension plagued his reign, which nevertheless succeeded to some extent in foreign issues. His reign saw the end of the Western Roman Empire following the deposition of Romulus Augustus and the death of Julius Nepos, but he was credited with contributing much to stabilising the Eastern Empire.
When Odoacer deposed the last Western Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople, he expressly acknowledged the suzerainty of Zeno over the West. The imperial government had no choice but to face the facts, and thus the new master of Italy was appointed magister militum per Italiam and received the administration of the Italic peninsula as viceroy of the Emperor, who thus became the theoretical ruler of a reunified Roman Empire.
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