Ruler · 540 – 590

Hormizd IV

Lived 540 – 590. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 579 – 590; also in the line of Persian Empire.

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Lived: 540 – 590; 50 years
In office: 11 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 25th of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

21 before

Hormizd IV579 – 590

Ardashir III628 – 630

4 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 579 – 590 · 11 years · came to it aged 39

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; strangling

Also in the line of Persian Empire (35th of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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