The early sixteenth century saw crown steeples built on churches with royal connections, symbolising imperial monarchy, as at St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.

However, an immediate effect of the battle may have been the fall of the Roman Republic, and thus the beginning of imperial monarchy at Rome.

The emperors thus invariably fought political (not always military) battles to strengthen their position and that of the imperial monarchy.

He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed Ancien Régime.

He and a Fabius Maximus were the last proconsuls honored abroad with the title "savior and founder" and with a festival bearing their names before the establishment of the imperial monarchy under Augustus.

The Renaissance led to the adoption of ideas of imperial monarchy, encouraging the Scottish crown to join the new monarchies by asserting imperial jurisdiction and distinction.

Italian Guelphs favoured the papacy and town self-government, while the Ghibellines supported the unity of Italy within the Empire and the subordination of the city to imperial monarchy.

Spreading imperial monarchies were destroying the Shakyans with their military power.

A crown prince or crown princess is the heir or heiress apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy.

The result was the birth of an imperial monarchy, and a radically different organization of power.