Sorry the answer took so long -laughs- but it only created a social hierarchy that stood for decades.
If you are asking if the statement is true, then it is. Odoacer, whose father was a commander in Attila the Hun's army, sent a message to Constantinople after Romulus Augustulus was deposed that the Roman empire needed only one Emperor. He then proclaimed himself as Italy's representative. Odoacer felt that he reunited the Roman Empire and he became the last Western Roman empire's ruler.
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