Kavadh II

Kavadh II
Great King (Shah) of Persia
Coin of Kavadh II.
Reign	Persia: 628 CE (several months)
Born	590
Died	628
Place of death	Iran
Predecessor	Khosrau II
Successor	Ardashir III
Wife	"Anzoy the Roman"
Issue	Ardashir III
Dynasty	Sassanid Empire
Religious beliefs	Zoroastrianism

Kavadh II (Siroes, Syriac Shiroye) (Persian: قباد‎ Qobād or Qabād), twenty-third Sassanid King of Persia, and son of Khosrau II (590–628).

Rule

Kavadh II was raised to the throne in opposition to his father in February 628, after the great victories of the Emperor Heraclius (610–641). He put his father and eighteen brothers to death and began negotiations with Heraclius, but died after a reign of a few months from the plague.

Marriage

A passage of the Chronicle of Edessa identifies "Anzoy the Roman" as wife of Siroes (Kavadh III) and mother of Ardashir III. The woman was probably a Christian princess from the Byzantine Empire.

References

Sources

• Martindale, John R.; Jones, A.H.M.; Morris, John (1992), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: AD 527–641, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Eduard Meyer (1911). "Kavadh". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Kavadh II Sassanid dynasty
Preceded by Khosrau II	Great King (Shah) of Persia 628	Succeeded by Ardashir III