Drachma of Bahram Chobin, minted at Arrajan in 590.
King of Kings of Iran and non-Iran
Reign
590–591
Predecessor
Khosrow II
Successor
Khosrow II (restored)
Died
591 Fergana, Western Turkic Khaganate
Issue
Mihran
Noshrad
Shapur
Regnal name
Bahram VI
House
House of Mihran
Father
Bahram Gushnasp
Religion
Zoroastrianism
Bahrām Chōbīn (Persian: بهرام چوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn (Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭), also known by his epithet Mehrbandak ("servant of Mithra"),[1] was a nobleman, general, and political leader of the late Sasanian Empire and briefly its ruler as Bahram VI (r. 590–591).
Son of general Bahram Gushnasp and hailing from the noble House of Mihran, Bahram began his career as the governor of Ray, and was promoted to the army chief (spahbed) of the northwestern portions of the empire after capturing the Byzantine stronghold of Dara, fighting in the war of 572–591. After a massive Hephthalite-Turkic invasion of the eastern Sasanian domains in 588, he was appointed as the spahbed in Khorasan, beginning a campaign that decisively ended with Iranian victory.
Bahram earned an elevated position in Iran due to his noble descent, character, skills, and accomplishments. The Sasanian king (shah) Hormizd IV (r. 579–590) was already distrustful of Bahram and stripped the increasingly popular general of his commands. Bahram began a rebellion aiming to reestablish the "more rightful" Arsacid Empire, identifying himself with the promised savior of the Zoroastrian faith. Before he had reached the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon, Hormizd was assassinated in support of his son, Khosrow II, by another anti-Hormizd faction led by the two Ispahbudhan brothers, Vistahm and Vinduyih. As Bahram captured Ctesiphon, Khosrow II fled to the Byzantine Empire, with the assistance of which he launched a campaign against Bahram, who was defeated with his outnumbered forces, but managed to flee to the Western Turkic Khaganate where he was well received. He was assassinated shortly thereafter at the instigation of Khosrow II, who was then the shah.
Bahram Chobin's legacy survived even after the Arab conquest of Iran among Iranian nationalists, as well as in the Persian literature.
wars with the Byzantine Empire and struggling against usurpers such as BahramChobin and Vistahm. Khosrow II began a war against the Byzantines in 602, ostensibly...
Mihran, who fought against the Byzantines in Armenia in 572–573, and BahramChobin, who led a coup against Khosrau II and briefly usurped the crown from...
usurper BahramChobin. In 590, Sasanian Shah Hormizd IV grew envious of the growing fame of his military commander, BahramChobin. After Bahram suffered...
since the reign of his father; and to the east, the Iranian general BahramChobin successfully contained and defeated the Western Turkic Khaganate during...
of the Persian General BahrāmChobin. 590 - Hormizd IV is assassinated; Coronation of Khosrow II. 590 - Uprising of BahrāmChobin and his seizure of the...
Byzantine–Sassanid War: Emperor Maurice defeats the Persian forces under BahrāmChobin at Nisibis (modern Turkey), and drives them back into Armenia. Comentiolus...
who was first the sister-wife of the distinguished military leader BahramChobin, then the wife of the Ispahbudhan dynast Vistahm, and ultimately the...
seven feudal houses played a significant role at the Sasanian court. BahramChobin, a famed military commander of Hormizd IV (r. 579–590), was from the...
Transoxiana and Khorasan. Saman was a 4th or 5th generation descendant of BahramChobin, a noble of the ancient House of Mihran, who played an important role...
from BahramChobin, the famous spahbed of the Sasanian Empire. Siyavakhsh was the son of Mihran Bahram-i Chubin, whose father was BahramChobin. Siyavakhsh...
children named Mardansina, Gorduya, Gordiya. His most famous child was BahramChobin, who would later occupy high offices in the Sasanian state, and even...
revolution after the death of Khosrow's father Hormizd IV, the General BahramChobin took power over the Persian empire. Shirin fled with Khosrow to Roman...
leader Bahram Chobin, and played an active role in the early stages of the Sasanian civil war of 589-591, till he was killed by BahramChobin himself in...
Khosrow regain his throne after the rebellion of another Parthian noble BahramChobin, of House of Mihran, but later led a revolt himself, and ruled independently...
(meaning young lion) was the son of Khosrow II, and Gordiya, the sister of BahramChobin. The 9th-century historian Dinawari mentions him as ruling before the...
590: Rebellion of BahramChobin and other Sasanian nobles, Khosrow II overthrows Hormizd IV but loses the throne to BahramChobin. 591: Khosrow II regains...
played an important role in restoring the throne for Khosrau II from BahramChobin. He was later deposed in Ctesiphon by the orders of Khosrau II. "Welcome...
back from BahrāmChobin. Thus, Khosrow leaves Shirin in Armenia and goes to Constantinople. The Caesar agrees to assist him against BahrāmChobin on condition...
Hormizd IV (r. 579–590), possibly as the governor of a province. When BahramChobin rebelled against Hormizd IV, Sarames was sent to suppress his rebellion...
Kayanian ideology and history would continue until the end of the empire. Bahram V (r. 420–438), on some rare coins minted in Pars, used the title of kirbakkar...
Constantine Flavius Aetius Atilla Clovis I Shapur I Khosrow I Belisarius BahramChobin Shahin and Shahrbaraz Heraclius Khalid ibn al-Walid Charlemagne Ivar...
not to be taken literally. In 590, a member of the House of Mihran, BahramChobin repelled the newly ascended Sasanian ruler Khosrow II from Iraq, and...
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