Peter ( la, Petrus) was a

Roman usurper Roman usurpers were individuals or groups of individuals who obtained or tried to obtain power by force and without legitimate legal authority. Usurpation was endemic during the Roman imperial era, especially from the crisis of the third cent ...

of the early sixth century AD, recorded in two minor sources: the '' Consularia Caesaraugustana'' and the '' Victoris Tunnunnensis Chronicon''. He was a "tyrant" (meaning usurper) against the

Visigothic The Visigoths (; la, Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is kno ...

rulers of Spain. When the Visigoths captured the city of

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in 506, he was arrested and executed, with his head being sent as a trophy to

Saragossa Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributar ...

.Collins, 35. Nothing else is known about him, but he seems to be the second Roman governor (after Burdunellus) to try to claim imperial authority in the

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of Spain after the fall of the

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Sources

* Collins, Roger. ''Visigothic Spain, 409–711''. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. . * Thompson, E. A.br>"The End of Roman Spain: Part III."
''Nottingham Mediaeval Studies'', xxii (1978), pp. 3–22. Reprinted as "The Gothic Kingdom and the Dark Age of Spain" in ''Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire''. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. pp. 161–187. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Peter 6th-century Romans 506 deaths 6th century in the Visigothic Kingdom Year of birth unknown