Damaspia
Sign in to saveDamaspia (from Old Persian *Jāmāspi- or *ðāmāspyā-) was an Achaemenid queen, wife of the king Artaxerxes I and mother of Xerxes II, his legitimate heir.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Damaspia
- Royalty.title
- Queen of Persia
- Royalty.death_date
- 424 BC
- Royalty.spouse
- Artaxerxes I
- Royalty.house
- Achaemenid
- Royalty.issue
- Xerxes II
- Royalty.religion
- Zoroastrianism
- Royalty.type
- consort
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Damaspia (from Old Persian *Jāmāspi- or *ðāmāspyā-) was an Achaemenid queen, wife of the king Artaxerxes I and mother of Xerxes II, his legitimate heir.
==Biography== According to the Greek historian Ctesias of Cnidus, King Artaxerxes and his wife died the same day (424 BC, perhaps during a military expedition), and their corpses were carried to Persia. Xerxes succeeded his father, but was murdered not much later (423 BC) by his half-brother Sogdianus.
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