Yazdegerd I
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Yazdegerd I ("made by God" Izdigerdes), King of Persia (399–421), son of Shapur III of Persia (383–388)
Yazdegerd I was a highly intelligent ruler, who tried to emancipate himself from the dominion of the magnates and the Magian priests. He punished the nobles severely when they attempted oppression; he granted Christianstheir own organization.
With the Roman Empire Yazdegerd I lived in peace and friendship, and is therefore as much praised by the Byzantine authors
After a reign of twenty-two years he appears to have been murdered in Khorasan.
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