Sources from the final two decades of…
September 630 CE
Sources from the final two decades of the Sassanid Persian Empire are very unreliable and sometimes contradictory, so that the reign of Azarmidokht is not accurately dated.
Because a female succession in the Persian Empire was not foreseen, she might also have acted as a regent.
According to Tabari, her reign lasted a few months in the year 630.
Tabari reported further that General Farrokh Hormizd proposed to marry Azarmidokht.
The queen, not daring to refuse him, invited him to her private chambers, where she had him murdered; and his son Rostam Farrokhzād captures Ctesiphon and has Azarmidokht blinded and then killed.
Her successor is named Hormizd VI.
According to Sebeo (a seventh-century Armenian bishop and historian), Hormizd VI was the grandson of Khosrau II.
(However, according to Iranian-American writer Bahram Moshiri, he was in reality the spahbod Farrokh Hormizd, who supposedly wished to seize power, and who actually obtained it under the name Hormozd VI.
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