Ruler · 501 – 423 BCE

Xerxes II

Lived 501 – 423 BCE. King of Kings of Achaemenid Empire, 424 BCE; also in the line of Persian Empire and Ancient Egypt.

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

Lived: 501 BCE – 423 BCE; 78 years
Lines: 3; states
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

King of Kings

Achaemenid Empire · the 7th of 11 dated reigns · 559 BCE – 330 BCE

3 before

Darius the Great522 BCE – 486 BCE

Atossa522 BCE – 475 BCE

Xerxes I486 BCE – 465 BCE

Xerxes II424 BCE

Sogdianus424 BCE – 423 BCE

Darius II423 BCE – …

Arses338 BCE – 336 BCE

1 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 424 BCE · under a year · came to it aged 77

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

He was murdered while drunk by Sogdianus, with help from Pharnacyas and Menostanes, who had great influence over him according to Ctesias.

Also in the line of Persian Empire (6th of 51, read from the line of Achaemenid Empire) and Ancient Egypt.

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