“My name is Romulus Augustus (c. 465 – after 511[b]). My name is nicknamed Augustulus, I was the Roman emperor of the West from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476. I was placed on the imperial throne while still a minor by my father Orestes, the magister militum, for whom I served as little more than a figurehead. After I rule of ten months, the barbarian general Odoacer defeated and killed Orestes and deposed me. As Odoacer did not proclaim any successor, I typically regarded as the last Western Roman emperor, my deposition marking the end of the Western Roman Empire as a political entity. The deposition of me is also sometimes used by historians to mark the transition from antiquity to the medieval period.”