1031-1066 (278-313 AD) (L'Uniona Homanus)

The Senate Changes and Election of 1031 (304 AD)
Emperor Jacobus had seen that the elites in the Provinces, if allowed to form the same feelings of superiority even to the Emperor that the Aquitanians had formed, could plot against him or any other Emperor. Francia and Aquitania both became Senatorial Provinces, as well as Britannia, Mauretania, Macedonia, Numidia, Dalmatia, Taragonensis, Judea and Syria. Many of the provinces had been inspired into adopting more principles of Ignacius’s cambissima which were the cause, many believed, of the prosperity of the Aquitanians and the Franks. Also, policies of freedom and voting, as were embraced by the Franks, became central to the policies of the new Governors and the new Senators. The number of Senatorial Provinces was now Twenty Five and the number of senators became Three Hundred and Seventy Five and Jacobus, focusing on his military preparedness on the frontiers and the submission of the newly conquered peoples, allowed the Senate to manage its Provinces more freely than as was done under Ignacius and Carolus. During this time the Emperor, who was becoming more prone to illness, died on these excursions due to the cold he was not used to. The Military was adopting some of the insulating furs and other sorts of clothes worn by these people but Jacobus did not live to see them completed.

Decius and Freedom
In Rome, the Senators began looking for a replacement for Jacobus while trying not to scare the people of the Empire with the knowledge that there is an open throne. The son of Jacobus, Decius, took the position of Governor of Aquitania but had, without any other suitable or widely popular candidate, been elected Emperor in the year 1032 (305 AD). Among his first things to do was replace the Constitution of Rome that had been implemented by Carolus many decades earlier.

Among the orders to be placed was the elimination of nobility throughout the Empire, which was very quickly seen as drawing from his influence as Governor in Francia. The provinces of Parthia, Scandinavia, Prussia, Suebia, and Armenia had had their nobilities removed or killed in the conflicts with those countries. However, in the older provinces, those around the Mediterranean Sea, were those who found this measure most objectionable. Decius, though, with the support of the people of those provinces removed the nobilities in the Assemblies of those provinces and called immediately for the election of new assembly members there. Many of these, as the people weren’t used to any others, were the same as they had been before. Decius walked from this battle victorious and freedom was, in law, put in place in the Provincial levels. Among the other things done by this Emperor was patronage of the sciences which were emerging in the Aegyptian and Greccian Provinces.