Hormizd I

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Hormizd I
"King of kings of Iran and Aniran" (Middle Persian: šāhān šāh ērān ud anērān) "Great king of Armenians"^[1]
Coin of Hormizd I.
Reign	May 270 – June 271
Born	Unknown
Died	June 271
Place of death	Unknown
Predecessor	Shapur I
Successor	Bahram I
Issue	Hormozdak
Royal House	House of Sasan
Father	Shapur I
Mother	Gurdzad
Religious beliefs	Zoroastrianism

Hormizd I (Persian: هرمز یکم ‎), was the third King of the Sasanian Empire from May 270 to June 271.^[2]

He was the youngest son of Shapur I (240–270/72),^[3] under whom he was governor of Khorasan, and appears in his wars against Rome (Historia Augusta, Trig. Tyr. 2, where Nöldeke has corrected the name Odomastes into Oromastes, i.e. Hormizd).

In the Persian tradition of the history of Ardashir I (226–240 [died 241/42]), preserved in a Pahlavi text (Nöldeke, Geschichte des Artachsir I. Papakan), Hormizd I is made the son of a daughter of Mithrak, a Persian dynast, whose family Ardashir had extirpated because the Magi had predicted that the restorer of the empire of Persia would come from his blood.

According to legend, this daughter alone was saved by a peasant; Shapur I saw her and made her his wife, and afterwards her son Hormizd I was recognized and acknowledged by Ardashir. In this legend, which has also been partially preserved in Tabari, the great conquests of Shapur I are transferred to Hormizd I. In reality he reigned only one year and ten days.

References

↑ HORMOZD I, M. RAHIM SHAYEGAN, Encyclopaedia Iranica, (March 23, 2012).
↑ SASANIAN DYNASTY, A. Shapur Shahbazi, Encyclopaedia Iranica, (July 20, 2005).
↑ Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia, (I.B.Tauris Ltd, 2010), 10.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

Hormizd I Sassanid dynasty
Preceded by Shapur I	Great King (Shah) of Persia 270–271	Succeeded by Bahram I

v t e Rulers of the Sasanian Empire (224–651)

Ardashir I (224–242) Shapur I (240–270) Hormizd I (270–271) Bahram I (271–274) Bahram II (274–293) Bahram III (293) Narseh (293–302) Hormizd II (302–309) Adhur Narseh (309) Shapur II (309–379) Ardashir II (379–383) Shapur III (383–388) Bahram IV (388–399) Yazdegerd I (399–420) Shapur IV^§ (420) Khosrau the Usurper^§ (420) Bahram V (420–438) Yazdegerd II (438–457) Hormizd III^§ (457–459) Peroz I (459–484) Balash (484–488) Kavadh I (488–496) Djamasp (496–498) Kavadh I (498–531) Khosrau I (531–579) Hormizd IV (579–590) Khosrau II (590) Bahram VI Chobin^§ (590–591) Khosrau II (591–628) Vistahm^§ (591–596) Kavadh II (628) Ardashir III (628–629) Shahrbaraz^§ (629) Khosrau III^§ (629) Borandukht (629–630) Shapur-i Shahrvaraz^§ (630) Peroz II^§ (630) Azarmidokht (630–631) Farrukh Hormizd^§ (630–631) Hormizd VI^§ (630–631) Khosrau IV^§ (631) Farrukhzad Khosrau V^§ (631) Borandukht (631–632) Yazdegerd III (632–651) Peroz III (pretender) Narsieh (pretender)

^§ usurpers or rival claimants

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