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A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In other words, one who takes the power of a country , city , or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. [ 3 ]
The following is a list of usurpers – illegitimate or controversial claimants to the throne in a monarchy. The word usurper is a derogatory term, often associated with claims that the ruler seized power by force or deceit rather than legal right. [1]
The following is a list of usurpers in the Roman Empire.For an overview of the problem and consequences of usurpation, see Roman usurpers.In the Eastern Roman Empire (395–1453), rebellion and usurpation were so notoriously frequent (in the vision of the medieval West, where usurpation was rare) that the modern term "byzantine" became a byword for political intrigue and conspiracy.
Roman usurpers were individuals or groups of individuals who obtained or tried to obtain power by force and without legitimate legal authority. [1] Usurpation was endemic during the Roman imperial era, especially from the crisis of the third century onwards, when political instability became the rule.
John of Conza (617) – described as a tyrannus (a term meaning usurper), he captured Naples but was defeated and killed by Eleutherius, the Exarch of Ravenna. Eleutherius (619) – the Exarch of Ravenna, he was a eunuch who set up his capital at Rome , but was murdered by his own troops.
Gaius Petronius Magnus (died 235 AD) was a senator of consular rank and a Roman usurper. After the death of Emperor Severus Alexander there was much ill-feeling in the Senate about the elevation of Maximinus Thrax to the throne. A group of officers and senators under the leadership of Magnus plotted to overthrow Maximinus.
Marcus was a high-ranking soldier in Roman Britain who was proclaimed emperor by the local army sometime in 406, possibly during the summer. [2] Possibly one of the army commanders in Britain (Comes Britanniarum, Comes Litoris Saxonici or Dux Britanniarum), [3] he may have risen to power in response to increasing raids from abroad at a time when the Empire was withdrawing troops from its far ...
Bonosus (died AD 280) [1] [2] was a late 3rd-century Roman usurper.He was born in Hispania (Roman Spain) to a British father and Gallic mother. His father—a rhetorician and "teacher of letters"—died when Bonosus was still young but the boy's mother gave him a decent education. [3]