Yazdagird of Persia 
Yazdagird was born about 0355 in Persia. Yazdagird's father was King Shapur III of Persia. His paternal grandfather was King Shapur II of Persia. He was an only child. He died in 0412.General Notes
Yazdegerd I ("made by God" Izdigerdes), king of Persia, son of Shapur III, 399-420, called "the sinner" by the Persians.
He was a highly intelligent ruler, who tried to emancipate himself from the dominion of the magnates and the Magian priests. He punished the nobles severely when they attempted oppression; he stopped the persecution of the Christians and granted them their own organization.
With the Roman Empire he lived in peace and friendship, and is therefore as much praised by the Byzantine authors (Procop Pers. i. 2; Agath. iv. 26) as he is blamed by the Persians.
After a reign of twenty years he appears to have been murdered in Khorasan.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0215 d.~ 0272 in Persia
- b.~ 0235 in Persia d.0302 in Armenia
- b.~ 0260 in Persia d.0309
- b.~ 0290 in Persia d.0379
- b.~ 0325 in Armenia or Khazakstan d.0388
- b.~ 0355 in Persia d.0412
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They had a son named Baranes.
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