Peroz (, "the Victor") was

bidaxsh Bidaxsh (''bidakhsh'', also spelled Pitiakhsh; in Roman sources ''Vitaxa'') was a title of Iranian origin attested in various languages from the 1st to the 8th-century. It has no identical word in English, but it is similar to a margrave, toparch a ...

(vice-king) of Gogarene and

Gardman Gardman (), also known as Gardmank' or Gardmanadzor, was one of the eight cantons of the ancient province of Utik' in the Kingdom of Armenia and simultaneously, together with the canton of Tuch'katak, an Armenian principality. It roughly corres ...

, ruling from 330 to 361. He was the founder of the Mihranid dynasty, an offshoot of the

House of Mihran The House of Mihrān or House of Mehrān (Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭨𐭥𐭠𐭭; New Persian: ), was a leading Iranian noble family (''šahrdārān''), one of the Seven Great Houses of the Sasanian İranian Empire which claimed descent from the ...

, one of the

seven Parthian clans The Seven Great Houses of Iran, also known as the seven Parthian clans, were seven aristocracies of Parthian origin, who were allied with the Sasanian Empire, Sasanian court. The Parthian clans all claimed ancestry from Achaemenid Persians. The se ...

. He was the son-in-law of

Mirian III Mirian III ( ka, მირიან III) was a king ('' mepe'') of Iberia or Kartli (Georgia), contemporaneous to the Roman emperor Constantine the Great ( r. 306–337). He was the founder of the royal Chosroid dynasty. According to the earl ...

, a convert to

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, who belonged to the Chosroid dynasty, which was also an offshoot of the House of Mihran. Peroz eventually himself converted to Christianity during his rule in

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. Peroz later died in 361, and was succeeded in Gardman by his son Khurs, and in Gogarene by an unnamed son, who was later succeeded in 394 by Bakur I.

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* * * 4th-century Iranian people 4th-century monarchs in Asia 361 deaths Mihranids Year of birth unknown Zoroastrian monarchs Vassal rulers of the Sasanian Empire Converts to Christianity from Zoroastrianism Christians in the Sasanian Empire Princes of Gardman {{Sasanian-bio-stub