Yazdegerd II

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Yazdegerd II

Yazdegerd II, ("made by God," Izdegerdes), fifteenth Sassanid King of Persia, was the son of Bahram V

Bahram V

Bahram V was the fourteenth Sassanid King of Persia . Also called Bahramgur, he was a son of Yazdegerd I , after whose sudden death he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of Mundhir, the Arabic dynast of al-Hirah....
(421–438) and reigned from 438 to 457.

In the beginning of his reign, Yazdegerd quickly attacked the Eastern Roman Empire with a mixed army of various nations, including his Indian

Gupta Empire

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Yazdegerd II, ("made by God," Izdegerdes), fifteenth Sassanid King of Persia, was the son of Bahram V

Bahram V

Gupta Empire

The Gupta Empire was ruled by members of the Gupta dynasty from around 280 to 550 CE and covered most of Northern India, Southern and Eastern Pakistan, parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan and what is now western India and Bangladesh....
allies, to eliminate the threat of a Roman build-up. The Romans had been constructing fortifications in the nearby Persian territory of Carrhae, in anticipation of subsequent expeditions. The Roman Emperor, Theodosius II

Theodosius II

Flavius Theodosius , called the Calligrapher, known in English as Theodosius II, was an Eastern Roman Empire , mostly known for the law code bearing his name, the Codex Theodosianus, and the Walls of Constantinople#The Theodosian Walls of Constantinople built during his reign....
(408–450), asked for peace and sent his commander personally to Yazdegerd's camp. In the ensuing negotiations in 441, both empires promised not to build any new fortifications in their border territories. Yazdegerd, igathered his forces in Neishabur in 443 and launched a prolonged campaign against the Kidarites

Kidarites

The Hazara people dynasty of the "Ki" clan led the Huna and came from the proto-Mongolic Uar about whom it has been said that their legendary ancestor was Afrasiabus....
. After numerous battles, he crushed them and drove them out beyond the Oxus river in 450.

During his eastern campaign, Yazdegerd grew suspicious of Christians

Christianity in Iran

Christianity in Iran has had a long history, dating back to the very early years of the faith. It has always been a minority religion, overshadowed by the majority state religions?Zoroastrianism in the past, and Shia Islam today....
in the army and the nobility and expelled many of them. He then persecuted the Assyrians Christians

Assyrian people

The Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their Assyrian/Syriac homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western Iran, and Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia....
and, to a much lesser extent, Jews. Advancing his pro-Zoroastrian policy, he battled an uprising of Armenian

Armenians

The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
Christians in the Battle of Vartanantz

Battle of Vartanantz

Battle of Avarayr was fought on May 26, 451 on the Avarayr Field in Vaspurakan, between the Armenian rebels under Saint Vartan and their Sassanid rulers....
in 451.

In his later years, Yazdegerd became engaged again with the Kidarites until his death in AD 457. He pursued strict religious policies and persecuted various minorities.