List of monarchs of Koxor

The following is a list of the monarchs of Koxor from the foundation of the Kingdom of the Ejekhi in 1023 to the present day.

House of Ejekh
In 1210, the Kingdom of the Ejekhi, as it was then known, fell to the expanding Eriya Empire. It did not achieve independence until 1499, when Hamezu, a member of a distant branch of the House of Ejekh, besieged and took the city of Taotamekhamel. It was named after him after he died, giving us modern Hamezurakhel.

House of Hamezur
The first three monarchs of the newly-founded Koxor used the name Koxoryr, meaning 'of Koxor'. This was changed to Hamezitse, 'from Hamezu', by Hamezu III. Most personal names during this time were either Hamezu or Taotamelo, honouring the previous great kings. Charakarem III was deposed by a popular revolution in October 1725 and the monarchy was abolished briefly. It was replaced by the Republic of Koxor, which was closer to a monarchy than a modern republic. The Republic broke up after eleven years and the monarchy was restored with the nephew of Charakarem (his son having been killed in the revolution) under the dynastic name Jekherin.

In 1920, a new Koxoriek constitution was introduced that included women in the line of succession. This caused a crisis involving the late king Zemeti II's daughter Hejekh and her younger brother Torekh, in which the former should have succeeded the latter but the latter actually succeeded their father. Eventually it was agreed that Torekh's children would be disregarded from the succession and Hejekh or her descendents would succeed him. Torekh died in 1936, eleven years before his sister, leaving Koxor's only regnant queen to date on the throne.

House of Ipelir
Queen Hejekh married Rezaxu, Earl Ipelir, in 1894. This marriage resulted in the first new dynasty in nearly 500 years.

The New Constitution of 1920 agreed that monarchs would no longer be known officially as Surname Forename, as had been the tradition since Taotamelo I, but as Forename Surname, which had become increasingly popular among their subjects.