Ruler · 400 – 420

Shapur IV

Lived 400 – 420; monarch. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 420; also in the line of Kingdom of Armenia and Persian Empire.

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Lived: 400 – 420; 20 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 15th of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

11 before

Shapur III383 – 388

Bahram IV388 – 399

Yazdegerd I399 – 420

Shapur IV420

Khosrau the Usurper420

Bahram V420 – 438

Yazdegerd II438 – 457

14 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 · under a year · came to it aged 20

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 420, the year they died

Also in the line of Kingdom of Armenia (41st of 42) and Persian Empire (25th of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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