Mardanshah (Sasanian prince)

Mardanshah was a 7th-century Sasanian prince. He was the son of the Sasanian shah Khosrau II and Shirin, and was the preferred successor of the Sasanian Empire.^[1] He was later killed along with his brothers and half-brothers by his half-brother Kavadh II in 628.^[1]

References

1 2 Howard-Johnston (2010), ḴOSROW II

Sources

Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-645-3.
Howard-Johnston, James (2010). "ḴOSROW II". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

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