Bahram V
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Key facts
- Reign
- 420–438
- Predecessor
- Khosrow
- Successor
- Yazdegerd II
- Died
- 438 (aged 38)
- Consort
- Sapinud
- Issue
- Yazdegerd II
- House
- House of Sasan
- Father
- Yazdegerd I
- Mother
- Shushandukht
- Religion
- Zoroastrianism
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Bahram V (also spelled Wahram V or Warahran V; Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭), also known as Bahram Gur (New Persian: بهرام گور, "Bahram the onager [hunter]"), was the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) from 420 to 438.
The son of the incumbent Sasanian shah Yazdegerd I (r. 399–420), Bahram was at an early age sent to the Lahkmid court in al-Hira, where he was raised under the tutelage of the Lakhmid kings. After the assassination of his father, Bahram hurried to the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon with a Lakhmid army, and won the favour of the nobles and priests, according to a long-existing popular legend, after withstanding a trial against two lions.