Hormizd III_
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Updated Feb 20, 2026
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(Friday)
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Children
1 child: Balendukht
Parents
Yazdegerd II, Diang of Persia
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♑ Capricorn
Chinese Zodiac
龙 Dragon
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Hormizd III: The 17th Sassanid Emperor (457–459).
Born (died at age 41).
Biography
Hormizd III, was the seventeenth king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire, ruling briefly from 457 to 459. He was the son and successor of Yazdegerd II. 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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