But why go for ‘five kings’ when there were only four emperors? The tag ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ traditionally omits the emperor Nero, who committed suicide in late 68 CE, abandoned by his armies and hated (so the story goes) by his own people. ![]() This was a year when four claimants to the position of Roman emperor – Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and the ultimate victor, Vespasian – waged a brutal civil war across the empire and in the very capital itself. Power politics are as old as humanity itself, but Martin’s fictional War of the Five Kings has a tantalisingly close parallel in the momentous year 69 CE.
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