Classical antiquity •
Qin Er Shi, Emperor of China's
Qin Empire – dominated by his eunuch
Zhao Gao •
Emperor Xian of Han of China – dominated by the warlord
Dong Zhuo, his successors
Li Jue and
Guo Si, and finally the
Wei Kingdom before being forced to abdicate in favor of
Cao Pi. • Later Wei emperors would themselves be dominated by the
Sima clan until
Cao Huan abdicated in favor of
Sima Yan •
Philip II Philoromaeus of the last Seleucid, King of Syria – ruled as client king for the
Roman Republic and
Pompey Late antiquity •
Leo I the Thracian, Roman emperor appointed by
Aspar, but broke free •
Libius Severus, second Roman emperor appointed by
Ricimer •
Olybrius, third Roman emperor appointed by Ricimer •
Glycerius, Roman emperor appointed by Ricimer's nephew,
Gundobad •
Romulus Augustulus, Roman emperor appointed by his general father,
Orestes Post-classical period •
Ecgberht I of Northumbria puppet ruler for the
Danes •
Baldwin I, Latin Emperor – installed to rule the
Latin Empire by the
Republic of Venice after the
Fourth Crusade •
John, King of England – nominally ruled as a vassal for
Pope Innocent III after 1213 •
John Balliol of Scotland – puppet king for King
Edward I of England •
Musa, a puppet
Ilkhan ruler in Mongol Persia •
Henry VI Lancaster of England – largely dominated by his wife Queen
Margaret of Anjou and advisors such as
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk Early modern period •
John Sigismund Zápolya,
Ottoman puppet king of
Hungary contesting Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand I of Habsburg's claim to the throne •
Manco Inca,
Sapa Inca of
Tawantinsuyu – installed by the
Spanish Empire, later revolted and founded the
Neo-Inca State •
Simeon Bekbulatovich Russian Tsar – ruled for one year as Puppet monarch of
Ivan the Terrible •
Moctezuma II,
Tlatoani (Emperor) of
Tenochtitlan and Aztec Triple Empire •
Joseph Nasi, an Ottomans puppet manger as
Duchy of Naxos Napoleonic era •
Elisa Bonaparte, Italian ruler as
Grand Duchess of
Tuscany and
Princess of Lucca •
Louis Bonaparte of the
Kingdom of Holland •
Jérôme Bonaparte, of
Kingdom of Westphalia created from territories of
Prussia and the former
Holy Roman Empire (present-day cultural Germany) after the
Battle of Jena-Auerstedt •
Joseph Bonaparte, of
Napoleonic Spain during the
Peninsular War and of the
Neapolitan Kingdom after the
French invasion of Naples • Elector and later King,
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, appointed as Napoleonic
Duke of Warsaw (present-day
Poland,
Belarus, and
Lithuania)
Late modern period • Rulers of the
princely states of India under paramountcy of the
British East India Company and later the
British Raj •
Hussein Shah of Johor – proclaimed
Sultan of Johor by the
British Empire during the
succession crisis of the
Johor Sultanate. •
Mubarak al-Sabah – signed an agreement with the
British Empire to make the
Sheikhdom of Kuwait a
British protectorate •
Pedro V of Kongo – ruled the
Kingdom of Kongo (modern-day
Angola,
Gabon, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the
Republic of the Congo) as a client king for the
Portuguese Empire •
Gungunhana – Portuguese client ruler of the
Gaza Empire, exiled after unsuccessful rebellion against Portuguese rule •
Osman Mahamuud – client king of the
Majeerteen Sultanate (modern-day
Puntland) for the
Italian Empire •
Muhammad Rahim Bahadur II and
Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur –
Russian client rulers of the
Khanate of Khiva •
Guangxu Emperor of
Great Qing – dominated by
Empress Dowager Cixi •
Emperor Gojong and
Sunjong of
Korea – ruled as puppets of the
Japanese Empire after the
Russo-Japanese War •
Aimone of Savoy, King of
Croatia – appointed by
Fascist Italy after the
Axis invasion of Yugoslavia as figurehead for
Ante Pavelić's
Ustaše regime •
Aisin-Gioro Puyi,
Emperor of Manchukuo – former
Emperor of China appointed to lead
Japan's puppet state of
Manchukuo •
Bảo Đại,
Emperor of Vietnam – emperor of the French protectorate of
Annam and
Japanese-occupied Vietnam, later chief of state of the
State of Vietnam •
Sisavang Vong, King of
Luang Phrabang – client king of the
French protectorate of Laos •
Tashi Namgyal and
Palden Thondup Namgyal – ruled
Sikkim as protectorate of
India after 1950. •
Sisowath Monivong, of
Cambodia – king of the
French protectorate of Cambodia •
José Gil Fortoul,
Victorino Márquez Bustillos and
Juan Bautista Pérez – Three presidents of early-20th-century Venezuela were widely considered puppet rulers under
Juan Vicente Gómez's
de facto rule. ==Puppet governments==