Also known as Odoacer, was a Germanic foederati general who on 4 September 476 AD deposed the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus. In 476 AD, Odoacer officially became the first Germanic King of Italy and a new era began. Only two remnants of once prosperous Western Roman regions remained as the once known mighty Roman world in Europe slipped further into the Dark ages while the newly founded Barbarian kingdoms emerged and prospered from their predecessor's ashes.