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Yazdegerd sought an alliance with Emperor Heraclius, who was an old rival of the Persian Empire.
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Yazdegerd and sought
In 635 Yazdegerd III, the Emperor of Persia, sought an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor.
Yazdegerd and alliance
Heraclius married off his daughter ( according to traditions, his grand daughter ) Manyanh to Yazdegerd III, an old Roman tradition to cement the alliance.
Heraclius married his daughter ( according to traditions, his grand daughter ) to Yazdegerd III, an old Roman tradition to show alliance.
Yazdegerd and with
* King Yazdegerd I of Persia maintains cordial relations with the Roman Empire.
* King Yazdegerd II summons the leading Armenian nobles to the Persian capital Ctesiphon, pressuring them to cut their ties with the Western Church.
* King Yazdegerd II of Persia signs after a short war a peace treaty with the Eastern Roman Empire.
In his later years, Yazdegerd became engaged again with the Kidarites until his death in 457.
Under these circumstances, Isaac, the Metropolitan of Armenia, proceeded to the court of Ctesiphon, and petitioned Yazdegerd to replace Artases with Khosrov III who had been deposed twenty-one years earlier, and whom Bahram IV had imprisoned in the " Castle of Oblivion ".
The singular message that the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi strives to convey is the idea that the history of the Sassanid Empire was a complete and immutable whole: it started with Keyumars, the first man, and ended with his fiftieth scion and successor, Yazdegerd III, six thousand years of history of Iran.
In the mid-5th century, the Sassanid King Yazdegerd II passed an edict requiring all the Christians in his empire to convert to Zoroastrianism, fearing that Christians might ally with Roman Empire, which had recently adopted Christianity as its official religion.
When Heraclius launched his offensive in May 636, Yazdegerd could not coordinate with the maneuver — probably owing to the exhausted condition of his government — and what would have been a decisive plan missed the mark.
Official recognition was first granted to the Christian faith in the 4th century with the accession of Yazdegerd I to the throne of the Sassanid Empire.
One passage relates merely that Huna ben Nathan appeared before Yazdegerd I, who with his own hands girded him with the belt which was the sign of the exilarch's office.
While Heraclius launched his offensive in May 636, Yazdegerd was unable to muster his armies in time to provide the Byzantines with Persian support.
Meanwhile, Umar ordered Saad to enter into peace negotiations with Yazdegerd III and invite him to Islam to prevent Persian forces from taking the field.
Yazdegerd and Emperor
On the death of Peroz I's father, Yazdegerd II, the younger son of the deceased Emperor, Hormizd, seized the throne in the absence of his elder brother Peroz who had been posted as the Governor of distant Sistan forcing Peroz to seek the protection of the Hephthalites.
But Yazdegerd on his accession to the throne desisted from assuming any aggressive posture towards the Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius or the Western Roman Emperor Honorius.
On the ninth year of his reign, it is believed, Yazdegerd was entrusted the care of Prince Theodosius by his father Arcadius, the Eastern Roman Emperor.
Marutha in particular exerted a great amount of influence over the Persian Emperor, and it was at his insistence that Yazdegerd issued a declaration in 410 giving Christians the freedom of worship.
* Shahrbanu, eldest daughter of Yazdegerd III, the last Emperor of Sassanid Persia and mother of the fourth Shiite imam, Ali ibn Husayn
The conquest of those provinces would leave Khurasan, the stronghold of Emperor Yazdegerd III, isolated and vulnerable.
Following this colossal defeat, the last Sassanid Emperor, Yazdegerd III, who became a hunted fugitive, fled eastward deep into Central Asia.
Later Maruthas was sent by Emperor Theodosius II to the court of Persia, where, notwithstanding the Magi, he won the esteem of King Yazdegerd I of Persia by his affability, saintly life, and, as is claimed, by his knowledge of medicine.
Yazdegerd and Heraclius
While Heraclius prepared for a major offensive in the Levant, Yazdegerd was to mount a simultaneous counterattack in Iraq, in what was meant to be a well-coordinated effort.
Umar won a decisive victory against Heraclius at Yarmouk, and used great strategy to engage and entrap Yazdegerd.
While Heraclius prepared for a major offense in the Levant, Yazdegerd, meanwhile, ordered the concentration of massive armies to pull back the Muslims from Mesopotamia for good.
The goal was well coordinated attacks by both emperors, Heraclius in the Levant and Yazdegerd in Mesopotamia, to annihilate the power of their common enemy Caliph Umar.
Yazdegerd and who
Despite the loss of Mamikonian who is killed, the Armenians consider this battle to have been a moral and religious victory, since Yazdegerd, out of respect for their efforts, allows them to remain Christian.
He is succeeded by Yazdegerd I, who becomes the thirteenth Sassanid king of Persia.
He is succeeded by his son Yazdegerd II who becomes the fifteenth Sassanid king of the Persian Empire.
Yazdegerd sent the Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon to mediate between the king and his brother who governed Pars.
He ruled Armenia for four years and returned to Ctesiphon in 419 to capture the throne from the king Yazdegerd I, who was in his death-bed.
Pulcheria had inspired war against Persia when Persian King Yazdegerd I executed a Christian bishop who destroyed an Zoroastrian altar.
Yazdegerd and was
Hormizd, the older son of Yazdegerd II, was kept near Ctesiphon, while his younger brother, Peroz, was stationed in Sistan.
Peroz I was the eldest son of Yazdegerd II of Persia ( 438 – 457 ).
Yazdegerd II (), was the fifteenth Sassanid King of Persia.
Yazdegerd I, or Izdekerti (" made by God ", Persian: یزدگرد یکم ), was the thirteenth Sassanid king of Persia and ruled from 399 to 421.
Yazdegerd I's reign was largely uneventful.
Early during his reign, Yazdegerd was entrusted the care of the Roman prince Theodosius by his father Arcadius on the latter's death in 408, and Yazdegerd faithfully defended the life, power and possessions of the Roman prince.
Yazdegerd I died in 421 and was succeeded by his son Bahram V or Bahramgur.
When Bahram IV was assassinated in 399, his son Yazdegerd succeeded him.
According to Wein, Yazdegerd I was a wise, benevolent, and astute ruler.
According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, " From the start, Yazdegerd was a sovereign whose nobility of character had won for him the greatest renown.
The burning evoked a strong reaction from the Magi, and Yazdegerd was forced to take action.
When Yazdegerd I was overcome by mortal illness in the year 419, Shapur immediately rushed to Ctesiphon to claim the Sassanian throne leaving behind a viceroy to govern Armenia.
Narseh, another son of Yazdegerd I was appointed governor of Khorasan.
Yazdegerd III or Yazdgerd III ( also spelled Yazdiger or Yazdigerd, Persian: یزدگرد سوم, " made by God ") was the twenty-ninth and last king of the Sassanid dynasty of Iran and a grandson of Khosrau II ( 590 – 628 ).
Yazdegerd was born in central Iran, reigned as a youth and had never truly exercised authority.
Also called Bahram Gur or Bahramgur (), he was a son of Yazdegerd I ( 399 – 421 ), after whose sudden death ( or assassination ) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of Mundhir, the Arab dynast of al-Hirah.
However, King Vache of Albania, a relative of Yazdegerd II, was forced to convert to Zoroastrianism, but soon thereafter converted back to Christianity.
Sassanian rule came to an end when the last Sassanian ruler, Yazdegerd III ( 632-651 ) was murdered not far from the city and the Sassanian military governor surrendered to the approaching Arab army.
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