Kavadh II
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Key facts
- Reign
- 25 February 628 – Summer/Autumn 628
- Predecessor
- Khosrow II
- Successor
- Ardashir III
- Born
- after 590
- Died
- Summer/Autumn 628
- Spouse
- Anzoy the Roman Boran
- Issue
- Ardashir III
- House
- House of Sasan
- Father
- Khosrow II
- Mother
- Maria
- Religion
- Zoroastrianism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sasanian Empire
- Place of death
- Ctesiphon
- Child
- Ardashir III
- Father
- Khosrow II
- Mother
- Maria
- Sibling
- Javanshir
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Religion
- Zoroastrianism
- Family
- Sasanian dynasty
- Image
- Coin of the Sasanian king Kavad II (cropped), minted at Susa in 628.jpg
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- date of death
- 0628-09-06
- date of birth
- 0590-01-01
- Commons category
- Kavad II
- cause of death
- plague
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- time period
- Sasanian dynasty
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Kavad II (Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭥𐭠𐭲, romanized: Kawād) was the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) of Iran briefly in 628.
Born Sheroe, he was the son of Khosrow II (r. 590–628) and Maria, and with help of different factions of the nobility, Sheroe overthrew his father in 628. At this time, the Iranian army had been split into three separate armies, each led by one of the faction leaders. After ascending the throne, he had his father and all his brothers executed. He made peace with the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641), thus bringing to an end the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kavadh II” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.