Balendukht

Balendukht or Balendokht (Georgian: ბალენდუხტი) (fl. c. 450 CE) was a Sasanian princess and queen consort of Iberia.^[1][2] She was the daughter of Sasanian shah (king) Hormizd III. During her youth, she married Vakhtang I, the ruler of Iberia, with whom she had one child named Dachi.^[3] Balendukht, however, died in childbirth.^[4]

The etymology of her name is unclear. It may have been a corrupted from *Šāhēnduxt.^[5]

Notes

1. Mikaberidze, Alexander (2015-02-06). Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-4146-6.
2. Nutsubidze, Tamar; Horn, Cornelia B.; Lourié, Basil (2014-03-13). Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context: Memorial Volume for the 125th Anniversary of Shalva Nutsubidze (1888-1969). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-26427-4.
3. Quasten, Johannes; Kuttner, Stephan (1969). Traditio. Fordham University Press.
4. Rayfield, Donald (2013-02-15). Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78023-070-2.
5. Gippert, Jost (2011). "Onomastic Irano-Iberica: I. The Name of Vakhtang Gorgasali's Persian Wife" (PDF). Enat'mets'nierebis Sakit'khebi: 91–98. ISSN 1512-0473. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2015-06-19.

References

• Martindale, John R., ed. (1980). "Fl. Aetius 7". The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.