Ardashir III.

Coin of Ardashir III.

Ardashir III. ( Persian اردشیر Ardaschīr [ ærdæˈʃiːr ]; * at 621; † April 27, 630 ) was Persian great king in the years 628–630.

Ardashir III. was the son of the great king Kavadh II of the Sassanid dynasty . According to Tabari , he was just seven years old when he succeeded him to the throne, his main adviser being Mihr-Adur-Gusnasp. He tried to restore order in the country in which the plague had raged after the lost war against Ostrom in 628 . However, local magnates and, above all, the army commanders had in the meantime gained such influence that the royal central authority effectively disintegrated. Ardaschir was overthrown and murdered by his general Shahrbaraz , who had come to an understanding with the Eastern Roman emperor Herakleios , after a reign of just under a year and a half . According to Theodor Nöldeke , his date of death was April 27, 630.

literature

Touraj Daryaee: Sasanian Persia. The Rise and Fall of an Empire. IB Tauris, London 2009, p. 35.

Touraj Daryaee: When the End is Near: Barbarized Armies and Barracks Kings of Late Antique Iran. In: Maria Macuch u. a. (Ed.): Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 43–52.

Theodor Nöldeke : History of the Persians and Arabs at the time of the Sasanids. From the Arab Chronicle of Tabari. Translated and provided with detailed explanations and additions . Leiden 1879, pp. 386–388 ( digitized version of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle ).

Theodor Nöldeke: Artaxerxes 7 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 1325.

Web links

ARDAŠĪR III , in: Encyclopædia Iranica

Remarks

↑ Theodor Nöldeke: History of the Persians and Arabs at the time of the Sasanids. From the Arab Chronicle of Tabari. Translated and provided with detailed explanations and additions . Leiden 1879, p. 432. This is also often followed in recent research.

predecessor	Office	successor
Kavadh II	King of the New Persian Empire 628–630	Schahrbaraz

personal data
SURNAME	Ardashir III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	New Persian great king
DATE OF BIRTH	at 621
DATE OF DEATH	630

[1] Theodor Nöldeke: History of the Persians and Arabs at the time of the Sasanids. From the Arab Chronicle of Tabari. Translated and provided with detailed explanations and additions . Leiden 1879, p. 432. This is also often followed in recent research.