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Cambyses II
کمبوجیه دوم fa
The second Achaemenid emperor (530–522 BC)
- Child of Cyrus the Great and Cassandane
- Married to Atossa, Roxane, Phaedymia
- Dated 559 BCE – 522 BCE
Great King
King of Kings
pharaoh
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 3
- 530 BCE – 522 BCE Great King jurisdiction: Achaemenid Empire Succeeded Cyrus the Great · Succeeded by Darius I
- 530 BCE – 522 BCE King of Kings jurisdiction: Achaemenid Empire Succeeded Cyrus the Great · Succeeded by Darius I
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Family
The family of Cambyses II
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 10
Family 10
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Cassandane Queen consort of the Achaemenid Empire
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child of (child) Cyrus the Great founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC) - of the house Achaemenid dynasty Achemenid dynasty of Persia (705–330 BC)
- sibling of Artystone Persian princess
- sibling of Atossa Persian Achaemenid empress (550–475 BC)
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sibling of Bardiya Son of Cyrus the Great (died c. 522 BC) - sibling of Roxane Daughter of Kyros II
- married to Atossa Persian Achaemenid empress (550–475 BC)
- married to Phaedymia Daughter of Otanes, a 6th century BC Persian noble
- married to Roxane Daughter of Kyros II
Connections
How Cambyses II connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
14 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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