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Bahram V

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Also known as Bahram Gor, Bahram Gur

The 15th Sassanid Emperor (421–438)

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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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date of birth
0406-01-01
date of death
0438-01-01
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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.

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