Boran from Persia

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Queen Boran's coin

Boran (also Buran , Puran or Purandokht ; † end of 631) was a daughter of the Persian king Chosrau II . She was the first woman to ascend the throne of the Sassanid Empire . Her successor was her sister Azarmidocht for a short time as the second (and last) woman on the Sassanian throne .

Actually, a female succession to the throne was not planned in the Sassanid Empire, but after the death of Boran's father Chosrau in 628, conditions almost anarchic prevailed in Persia. All subsequent rulers could only hold onto the throne for a relatively short time until 632. The sources are very unreliable for this time, so that the reign of Boran cannot be precisely determined.

Boran followed the usurper Shahrbaraz , although she was not his wife. Boran was probably the widow of the great king Kavadh II and as such could have been involved in the murder of Shahrbaraz. According to later sources, she is said to be the murderer of King Ardashir III. and finally came to the throne because after Ardashir's death no other suitable successor from the house of Sasan could be found.

The length of their reign varies in the sources between 16 months and two years. During their reign an embassy was sent to the Eastern Roman Emperor Herakleios . The queen also had coins minted with her portrait, which clearly underscored her claim to power, as this was a royal privilege. However, their position does not appear to have been particularly stable. Boran died a violent death, perhaps from strangulation.

literature

  • Marie Louise Chaumont: Boran of Persia . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica , as of December 15, 1989 (English, including references)
  • Haleh Emrani: Like Father, Like Daughter: Late Sasanian Imperial Ideology & the Rise of Bōrān to Power . In: E-Sasanika 5 (2009).
  • HM Malek, V. Sarkhos Curtis: History and Coinage of the Sasanian Queen Bōrān (AD 629-631). In: The Numismatic Chronicle 158, 1998, pp. 113-129.
  • Antonio Panaino: Women and Kingship. Some remarks about the enthronization of Queen Boran and her sister Azarmigduxt . In: Josef Wiesehöfer , Philip Huyse (Ed.): Eran ud Aneran. Studies on the relations between the Sasanian Empire and the Mediterranean world . Stuttgart 2006, pp. 221-240.

Remarks

  1. ↑ HM Malek, V. Sarkhos Curtis: History and Coinage of the Sasanian Queen Boran (AD 629-631). In: The Numismatic Chronicle 158, 1998, p. 114.
  2. ↑ This is reported by an anonymous East Syrian chronicle ( Anonymus Guidi ), the author of which was able to fall back on good sources. See Nasir al-Ka'bi (ed.): A Short Chronicle on the End of the Sasanian Empire and Early Islam 590-660 AD Piscataway (NJ) 2016, p. 74 and p. 76 (with the documents there).
  3. ↑ See HM Malek, V. Sarkhos Curtis: History and Coinage of the Sasanian Queen Bōrān (AD 629-631). In: The Numismatic Chronicle 158, 1998, p. 115.
  4. ↑ Anonymus Guidi : Nasir al-Ka'bi (ed.): A Short Chronicle on the End of the Sasanian Empire and Early Islam 590-660 AD Piscataway (NJ) 2016, p. 76; Theodor Nöldeke , The Syrian Chronicle published by Guidi, translated and commented . In: Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Kl. 128, 9. Vienna 1893, p. 1ff., Here p. 33.
predecessor Office successor
Schahrbaraz Queen of the New Persian Empire
630–631 		Azar addict
personal data
SURNAME Boran from Persia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borane; Puran; Purandokht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of the New Persian Empire
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 631