Barzabod

'''Barzabod''' was a high-ranking Iranian official in 5th-century Sasanian Iran. A Mihranid prince of the Gardman region,{{sfn|Toumanoff|1969|p=28}} he served as the viceroy of Caucasian Albania.{{sfn|Rapp|2014|pp=160, 312}}

According to the Georgian chronicler Juansher, Barzabod married off her daughter Sagdukht to his Iberian neighbor, Mihrdat V, then heir apparent to King Archil of Iberia, and eventually king in his own right. The marriage helped to seal peace between the once hostile neighbors. After Archil's death c. 435, Sagdukht relied on her father for support during her regency for her underage son, Vakhtang I of Iberia.

Barzabod died around 440, and was succeeded by his son Varaz-Bakur.

== References == {{reflist}}

==Sources== * {{cite book | title = Studies in Christian Caucasian history | year = 1963 | publisher = Georgetown University Press | last = Toumanoff | first = Cyril | pages = 1–599 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jlE1AAAAIAAJ}} * {{cite journal |last=Toumanoff|first=Cyril |year=1969 |title=Chronology of the early kings of Iberia|journal=Traditio |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=25 |pages=1–33 |doi= 10.1017/S0362152900010898|jstor=27830864 |s2cid=151472930 }} {{Registration required}} * {{cite book|last1=Rapp|first1=Stephen H.|title=The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature|date=2014|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1472425522|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T8VIBQAAQBAJ&q=rapp+inscription+kartir}} * {{cite book|last1=Gamq’relidze|first1=Dmitri|editor1-last=Jones|editor1-first=Stephen|title=Kartlis Tskhovreba. A History of Georgia|date=2014|publisher=Artanuji|location=Tbilisi|isbn=978-9941-445-52-1|pages=78–82|url=http://www.science.org.ge/books/Kartlis%20cxovreba/Kartlis%20Cxovreba%202012%20Eng.pdf|chapter=Juansher Juansheriani, The Life of Vakht'ang Gorgasali|access-date=2017-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713213859/http://www.science.org.ge/books/Kartlis%20cxovreba/Kartlis%20Cxovreba%202012%20Eng.pdf|archive-date=2015-07-13|url-status=dead}}

{{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Khurs| title = Mihranid prince of Gardman|years=430–440| after = Varaz-Bakur}} {{s-end}} {{Mihranids}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barzabod}} Category:5th-century Iranian people Category:5th-century monarchs in Asia Category:440 deaths Category:Mihranids Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Zoroastrian monarchs Category:Vassal rulers of the Sasanian Empire Category:Princes of Gardman Category:Caucasian Albania Category:Governors of the Sasanian Empire