Ruler · 301 – 399

Bahram IV

Lived 301 – 399; monarch. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 388 – 399; also in the line of Persian Empire.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 301 – 399; 98 years
In office: 11 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 13th of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

9 before

Bahram IV388 – 399

Khosrau the Usurper420

16 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 388 – 399 · 11 years

Came to it: seized powerthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: killed

In Armenia, he deposed his insubordinate vassal Khosrov IV and installed his brother Vramshapuh on the Armenian throne.

Like his father, Bahram IV was killed by the nobility; he was succeeded by his brother Yazdegerd I.

Also in the line of Persian Empire (23rd of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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