Ruler · 406 – 438

Bahram V

Lived 406 – 438; monarch. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 420 – 438; also in the line of Persian Empire.

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Lived: 406 – 438; 32 years
In office: 18 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died by accident; Wikidata's manner of death

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 17th of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

13 before

Yazdegerd I399 – 420

Shapur IV420

Khosrau the Usurper420

Bahram V420 – 438

Yazdegerd II438 – 457

Hormizd III457 – 459

Peroz I459 – 484

12 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 420 – 438 · 18 years · came to it aged 14

Left it: died by accidentWikidata's manner of death: accidental death

Also in the line of Persian Empire (27th of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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