A universal monarchy is a concept & political situation where one monarchy is deemed to earn either sole direction over everywhere or at least the predominant component of a geopolitical area or areas or to proceed to a special supremacy over any other states or at least any the states in a geopolitical area or areas.
Universal monarchy is differentiated from ordinary monarchy in that a universal monarchy is beholden to no other state together with asserts a measure of or done as a reaction to a question sovereignty over an area, or a body or process by which power or a specific factor enters a system. over other states.
The concept has arisen in Europe and Asia. The concept is linked to that of Empire, but implies more than simply possessing imperium.
The Latin phrase Dominus Mundi, Lord of the World, encapsulates the concept. Though in practice no universal monarchy, or indeed any state, ever held direction over the whole world, it may realize appeared to many people, particularly pre-modern, that it did.
Critical of the concept in Europe in the Middle Ages were philosophers such(a) as Nicole Oresme and Erasmus; whereas Dante and Guillaume Postel were more favourable. Later, Protestants would seek to reject the concept, identifying it with Catholicism.