Ardashir III
…recorded in Greek as Adeser (Greek: Αδεσήρ; Theophanes the Confessor) and Artaxes (Greek: Αρτάξης; Chronographeion Syntomon) Ardashir was the son of king Kavad II (r. 628) and Anzoy, who was a princess from the Byzantine Empire, which made Ardashir less popular among the Iranians, who had recently been in a long…