A puppet monarch is a majority figurehead who is installed or patronized by an imperial power to provide the appearance of local authority but to allow political and economic control to remain among the dominating nation. A figurehead monarch, as source of legitimacy and possibly divine reign, has been the used form of government in several situations and places of history. There are two basic forms of using puppets as monarchs (rulers, kings, emperors): A figurehead in which the monarch is a puppet of another person or a group in the country who rules instead of the nominal ruler. A puppet government under a foreign power. Examples of the first type are the Emperors who were the puppets of the shōguns of Japan and the kings who were the puppets of the Mayor of Palace in the Frankish kingdom. Client kingdoms under the Roman Republic and Roman Empire and the British Empire's colonial relationship with King Farouk of Egypt in the 1950s are examples of the second type. List of puppet kings and queens 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 founded by Cao Pi before being forced to abdicate 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 advisors such as Queen Margaret of Anjou and William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk Early modern period John Sigismund Zápolya, Ottoman puppet king of Hungary contesting Holy Roman