Bahram V (also spelled Wahram V or Warahran V; Middle Persian: π₯π«π§π«π π), also known as Bahram Gur (New Persian: Ψ¨ΩΨ±Ψ§Ω Ϊ―ΩΨ±, "Bahram the onager [hunter]"), was the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) from 420 to 438.
The son of the incumbent Sasanian shah Yazdegerd I (r.β399β420), Bahram was at an early age sent to the Lahkmid court in al-Hira, where he was raised under the tutelage of the Lakhmid kings. After the assassination of his father, Bahram hurried to the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon with a Lakhmid army, and won the favour of the nobles and priests, according to a long-existing popular legend, after withstanding a trial against two lions.
Bahram V's reign was generally peaceful, with two brief warsβfirst against his western neighbours, the Eastern Roman Empire, and then against his eastern neighbours, the Kidarites, who were disturbing the Sasanian eastern provinces.
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