Plate of a Sasanian king hunting lions, most likely Hormizd III
Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire
Reign
457 – 459
Coronation
Ray
Predecessor
Yazdegerd II
Successor
Peroz I
Regent
Denag
Died
459
Issue
Balendukht
House
House of Sasan
Father
Yazdegerd II
Mother
Denag
Religion
Zoroastrianism
Hormizd III (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣; New Persian: هرمز سوم), was the seventeenth king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire, ruling briefly from 457 to 459. He was the son and successor of Yazdegerd II (r. 438–457). His reign was marked by the rebellion of his younger brother Peroz I, who with the aid of one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran, the House of Mihran, and the eastern neighbours of the Sasanians, the Hephthalites, had him captured and executed.
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