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Definition of Usurpers

Usurper
Usurper U*surp"er, n. One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. --South.

Meaning of Usurpers from wikipedia

- for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. Usurpers can rise to power in a region by often unexpected physical force such as...
- The Gallienus usurpers were the usurpers who claimed imperial power during the reign of Gallienus (253–268, the first part of which he shared with his...
- of being one. See also Aliʻi nui of Hawaii. List of Roman usurpers List of Byzantine usurpers Lists of monarchs who lost their thrones List of coups and...
- Nest usurpation, when the queen of one species of eusocial insects takes over the colony of another species List of usurpers List of Roman usurpers This...
- usurpers were individuals or groups of individuals who obtained or tried to obtain power by force and without legitimate legal authority. Usurpation was...
- Historia Augusta, in the twelfth year of Gallienus' reign (265), when usurpers were springing up in every quarter of the Roman world, a certain Celsus...
- Septimius (or Septiminus) was a Roman usurper who was proclaimed Emperor in either 271 or 272 AD, under the reign of Aurelian. Septimius declared himself...
- to Valens's elder brother and co-emperor Valentinian I. List of Roman usurpers Hughes 2013, p. 17. Jones, Martindale & Morris, pp. 742–743. Jones, Martindale...
- conspiracy. For usurpation in the Eastern Roman Empire, see List of Byzantine usurpers. The following individuals began as usurpers, but became the legitimate...
- Appius Claudius Censorinus was a fictitious usurper against Roman Emperor Claudius II, (in ca AD 269) according to the unreliable Historia Augusta. He...