House
Achaemenid dynasty
Achemenid dynasty of Persia (705–330 BC)
- Dated 8th century BCE – 330 BCE
- Also called Achaemenids, Achaemenians, Achaemenidae
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Members · 10
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
2 children in the house
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Bardiyauntil 29 September 522 BCE · Child of Cyrus the Great -
Arsesuntil June 336 BCE · Child of Artaxerxes III - Achaemenes8th century BCE – 7th century BCE · possibly mythical apical ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty, living in the 7th century BC and possibly a ruler of Parsumash, a vassal state of the Median Empire
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Cyrus the Greatc. 600 BCE – 530 BCE · founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC) -
Cambyses II559 BCE – 522 BCE · Child of Cyrus the Great -
Darius I550 BCE – November 486 BCE · The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC) -
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Xerxes I519 BCE – August 465 BCE · Child of Darius I -
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Darius II475 BCE – 404 BCE · The ninth Achaemenid emperor (423–404 BC) -
Artaxerxes II453 BCE – February 358 BCE · Child of Darius II -
Artaxerxes III425 BCE – August 338 BCE · Child of Artaxerxes II
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
King of Kings
- 9 holders
- 7 overlapping pairs
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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until 338 BCE Artaxerxes III 11th Achaemenid Emperor (358–338 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire -
559 BCE – 530 BCE Cyrus the Great founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire -
530 BCE – 522 BCE Cambyses II The second Achaemenid emperor (530–522 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire -
29 September 522 BCE – 1 October 486 BCE Darius I The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire -
522 BCE – 29 September 522 BCE Bardiya Son of Cyrus the Great (died c. 522 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire -
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October 486 BCE – August 465 BCE Xerxes I fifth Achaemenid emperor (486–465 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire -
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from 423 BCE Darius II The ninth Achaemenid emperor (423–404 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire -
338 BCE – 336 BCE Arses The 12th Achaemenid Emperor (338–336 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Artaxerxes II The 10th Achaemenid Emperor (404–358 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire
Pharaoh
- 8 holders
- 5 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- 29 September 522 BCE – 1 October 486 BCE Darius I The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)
- 522 BCE – 29 September 522 BCE Bardiya Son of Cyrus the Great (died c. 522 BC)
No dates recorded 5
- Dates unrecorded Xerxes I fifth Achaemenid emperor (486–465 BC)
- Dates unrecorded Artaxerxes II The 10th Achaemenid Emperor (404–358 BC)
- Dates unrecorded Artaxerxes III 11th Achaemenid Emperor (358–338 BC)
- Dates unrecorded Darius II The ninth Achaemenid emperor (423–404 BC)
- Dates unrecorded Arses The 12th Achaemenid Emperor (338–336 BC)
Great King
- 4 holders
- 1 gap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- 688 BCE – 675 BCE Achaemenes possibly mythical apical ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty, living in the 7th century BC and possibly a ruler of Parsumash, a vassal state of the Median Empire
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Gap about 116 years before the next in this house
559 BCE – 530 BCE Cyrus the Great founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire - 530 BCE – 522 BCE Cambyses II The second Achaemenid emperor (530–522 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire
- 522 BCE – 29 September 522 BCE Bardiya Son of Cyrus the Great (died c. 522 BC) Recognised by Achaemenid Empire
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Achaemenid dynasty connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
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.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of it cites 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
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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