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Sign in to saveSegga was a Visigothic usurper who briefly claimed the kingship in 587 before being defeated by Reccared I.
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Segga was a Visigothic usurper who briefly claimed the kingship in 587 before being defeated by Reccared I.
Following Reccared's conversion from Arianism to Catholicism, a conspiracy, led by Sunna, the Arian bishop of Mérida, arose to place the Arian Segga on the throne and probably also to kill the Catholic Méridan bishop, Masona, and the duke of the province of Lusitania, Claudius. In response, Reccared sent Claudius to put it down. The conspirators were betrayed by one of their own, Witteric, and Segga was captured. According to John of Biclarum, Segga had hands cut off (the penalty for usurpers) and was banished to Galicia.