 DATE: Likewise, Agarn complains that Parmenter would have won the  poker game between him and Zeppel except that "three Kaisers" beat  Parmenters hand. Kaiser, while an old title dating back to  Charlemagne, had lapsed after the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire  circa 1800 and would not be resumed until the accession of Wilhelm I  of the German Empire in 1871.