Ruler · 473 – 531

Kavad I

Lived 473 – 531. King of Kings of Sasanian Empire, 488 – 496 and 1 more term; also in the line of Persian Empire.

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Lived: 473 – 531; 58 years
In office: 41 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 2; states
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

King of Kings

Sasanian Empire · the 22nd and 23rd of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

18 before

Hormizd III457 – 459

Peroz I459 – 484

Balash484 – 488

Kavad I488 – 496

Kavad I498 – 531

Khosrow I531 – 579

Hormizd IV579 – 590

Khosrow II590 – …

6 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 488 – 496 · 8 years · came to it aged 15 · term 1 of 2

Came to it: the nephew or niece of the ruler before, on record
Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 496; they died in 531

Reigned 498 – 531 · 33 years · came to it aged 25 · term 2 of 2

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 531, the year they died

Also in the line of Persian Empire (32nd of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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