Ruler · 180 – 242

Ardashir I

Lived 180 – 242; politician. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 224 – 242; also in the line of Persian Empire.

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Lived: 180 – 242; 62 years
In office: 18 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: dates disagree; read off the dates alone

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 1st of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

Ardashir I224 – 242

Shapur I240 – 270

Hormizd I270 – 271

Bahram I271 – 274

28 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 224 – 242 · 18 years · came to it aged 44

Came to it: seized power
Left it: dates disagreeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 242, after the death recorded in 241

After defeating Artabanus IV, the last King of Kings of Parthia, on the Hormozdgan plain in 224, he overthrew the Arsacid dynasty and established the Sasanian dynasty.

Also in the line of Persian Empire (11th of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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