swap_horiz Emperor Leopold I Alternatives

1

Emperor Charlemagne

Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768, king of the Lombards from 774, and emperor from 800 until his death in 814....

Medieval Frankish 8TH Century Carolingian

9.2 Excellent

2

Emperor Kangxi

The Kangxi Emperor ruled Qing China from 1661 to 1722, giving him the longest recorded reign of any Chinese emperor. Dur...

Expansion Chinese 17TH Century Long Reign

8.8 Great

3

Tsar Peter I the Great

Peter I ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, first as tsar and later under the title emperor, and pursued extensive military,...

Russian 17TH Century Founder Modernizer

8.6 Great

4

King Gustav II Adolf

Gustav II Adolf was king of Sweden from 1611 until his death in 1632 and a leading Protestant commander in the Thirty Ye...

Swedish 17TH Century Thirty Years War Vasa

8.4 Great

5

King Louis XIV

King Louis XIV of France (1638–1715), the 'Sun King,' ruled from 1643 in the longest reign of any major European monarch...

French Bourbon 17TH Century United States

8.3 Great

6

Empress Maria Theresa

Maria Theresa ruled the Habsburg hereditary lands from 1740 until her death in 1780 and was the dynasty's only woman to...

Austrian 18TH Century Habsburg Reformer

8.2 Great

7

Emperor Charles V

Charles V (1500-1558) was a Habsburg monarch who ruled Spain as Charles I from 1516 and served as Holy Roman Emperor fro...

Spain 16TH Century Habsburg Holy Roman

8.1 Great

8

King Jan III Sobieski

Jan III Sobieski was king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1674 until 1696. An experienced military commander,...

Polish 17TH Century Vienna Sobieski

7.8 Good

9

Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa

Frederick I, called Barbarossa, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death in 1190 and a member of the Hohenstaufe...

German 12TH Century Crusader Holy Roman

7.7 Good

10

King William III (of Orange)

King William III of Orange (1650–1702) was the Dutch stadtholder who deposed James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688...

British Dutch 17TH Century Orange Nassau

7.4 Good

11

Emperor Joseph II

Joseph II was Holy Roman emperor from 1765 to 1790 and co-ruler of the Habsburg lands with his mother, Maria Theresa, un...

Austrian 18TH Century Habsburg Reformer

7.3 Good

12

Emperor Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan was the fifth Mughal emperor, ruling from 1628 until 1658 during a period noted for imperial architecture and...

17TH Century Builder Mughal Taj Mahal

7.1 Good

13

King James I of England

James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) became James I of England and Ireland in 1603, bringing the crowns under one monarch wh...

English 17TH Century Union Stuart

7.0 Good

14

Queen Christina of Sweden

Christina of Sweden was a monarch of the House of Vasa who reigned from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Educated in l...

Intellectual Swedish 17TH Century Abdicated

6.8 Fair

15

Queen Mary II of England

Queen Mary II of England (1662–1694) co-ruled jointly with her husband William III from 1689 following the Glorious Revo...

British 17TH Century Stuart Protestant

6.7 Fair

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King Philip II of Spain

Philip II was king of Spain from 1556 to 1598 and a member of the Habsburg dynasty. During his reign, Spain ruled an ext...

Spanish Empire 16TH Century Habsburg

6.7 Fair

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King Christian IV of Denmark

Christian IV was king of Denmark and Norway from 1588 to 1648 and a member of the Oldenburg dynasty. His reign is associ...

Danish 17TH Century Builder Thirty Years War

6.6 Fair

18

King Charles II of England

King Charles II of England (1630–1685) was restored to the throne in 1660 after the Interregnum, and his reign saw the G...

Restoration English 17TH Century Stuart

6.3 Fair

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Emperor Francis Joseph I

Francis Joseph I was emperor of Austria and king of Hungary from 1848 until his death in 1916. His reign included the 18...

Austrian 19TH Century Habsburg Austria Hungary

6.0 Fair

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Emperor Franz II

Franz II was the last elected Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 180...

18TH Century Habsburg Holy Roman Last Hre Emperor

5.8 Mediocre