Balendukht or Balendokht (Georgian: ბალენდუხტი) (fl. c. 450 CE) was a Sasanian princess and queen consort of Iberia. 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. Balendukht, however, died in childbirth.
The etymology of her name is unclear. It may have been a corrupted from *Šāhēnduxt.
Notes
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- 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.
- Quasten, Johannes; Kuttner, Stephan (1969). Traditio. Fordham University Press.
- Rayfield, Donald (2013-02-15). Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78023-070-2.
- 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.
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- 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.
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